The garden of Villa Barbarigo Pizzoni Ardemani, Valsanzibio

The Villa Barbarigo is a 17th-century rural villa, located on over 40 acres at Valsanzibio, a frazione of Galzignano Terme, south of Padua, northern Italy; it was built by the Venetian aristocratic family of the Barbarigo. The garden has over 350 years of history. It was built between 1665 and 1696 by one of the richest and most important families in Venice at the time, the Barbarigo family, as a thanks to God for sparing them from the plague of 1630/31. In the garden there is an approximately 400 year old Boxwood Labyrinth— likely to be the oldest one of its kind in the world— as well as one-of-a-kind boxwood hedge walls which reach up to 5 metres high. There are also trees between 300 and 900 years old and centuries-old specimens from four continents (Asia, America, Africa and Europe).