The Garden of Ca' Zenobio degli Armeni

One of the last big private gardens in Venice survives attached to a palace that changed hands three times without ever losing its garden. Ca' Zenobio was completed in 1690 for the Zenobio family from Verona, passed later to the Albrizzi family, and eventually became a college for Armenian Mekhitarist monks under the name Moorat-Raphael. The garden reached its current romantic layout in the 19th century, when its formal Baroque geometry was reworked into winding paths, small artificial hills and bridges, planted with yews, laurels, cypresses, hackberries and a row of black locusts leading to a neoclassical loggia. No individual tree here carries a documented age or measurement, so any figure is an estimate rather than a verified fact, but the 19th-century redesign gives a reasonable upper bound. Access is not constant: the garden opens mainly during temporary exhibitions and events hosted at the palace, including Biennale collateral shows in some years, so a visit takes some planning rather than a simple walk-in.