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It is the only regional example of botanical garden independent from the University, in the last century it was described in the guides as a 'place of delight'. A welcoming and rich green island in the historic center of Bassano built in 1805 by Alberto Parolini, a Bassano nobleman who actively participated in the cultural life of the town in the early nineteenth century. For him the influence of the naturalist Giambattista Brocchi was fundamental and, above all, his stay in London, the city where the best known naturalists of the time met and from which the taste of the English landscape gardens spread rapidly. In 1829 he let it be known that he had come to cultivate '3000 different plant species'. And in the last catalog, drawn up by his daughter Antonietta, 3200 were counted. Just a century later, in 1929, the Garden was ceded to the City of Bassano and, despite the building interventions of the fifties that penalized it in part, it was considered always one of the strategic points of the city's culture. Its uniqueness comes from hosting in a little space with mastery the garden, the lawn and the flower beds, a universe of native and tropical species. Inside, the famous 'Cedro del Libano', the 'Pinus Parolini' (a species discovered by Parolini himself in 1819 in Asia Minor), the 'Platanus Orientalis' about 30 meters high, the 'Taxus Baccata' also 'tree of death' and the 'Cercis Siliquastrum'.