Described as a "place of delight" in the guides of the last century, it is the only regional example of a botanical garden independent of the University. A welcoming and rich green island in the historic center of Bassano built by Alberto Parolini, a noble of Bassano who actively participated in the culture of the city of the early nineteenth century.
Fundamental was the influence of Giambattista Brocchi and, above all, the trip to London, where the most famous naturalists of the time were gathered and from which the taste of English landscape gardens quickly spread.
In 1829 he announced that he was cultivating "3000 species of different plants"; the last catalogue was compiled by figlia Antonietta and numbered 3200 different species.
In 1929 the Garden was sold to the Municipality of Bassano, which, despite the construction works of the fifties that cut a part, has always considered it one of the strategic points of the city culture. Inside: the famous Cedar of Lebanon, the Pinus Parolinii, in memory of the species discovered by Parolini himself in 1819 in Asia Minor, the Platanus Orientalis about 30 meters high, the Taxus Baccata also called "tree of death", the Cercis Siliquastrum whose legend tells that from a tree of this species hung Judas Iscariot, hence the vulgar name of tree of Judas.
