Giardino Giusti, Verona: Tickets, Opening Hours and How to Get There

Giardino Giusti ticket prices

The garden publishes its own price list. A full ticket costs 14.00 EUR. Students, groups of at least 15 people, Verona Card holders, residents of the Comune di Verona and members of ADSI, FAI and the Touring Club Italiano pay 10.00 EUR. Visitors holding a ticket for Palazzo Maffei Casa Museo or the Biblioteca Capitolare pay 13 EUR. School pupils pay 6.00 EUR, and teachers with their class enter free, as do disabled visitors who need a companion (Giardino Giusti, 2026a).

There are two family tickets: 25.00 EUR for two adults and one child aged 6 to 18, and 35.00 EUR for two adults and two or more children aged 6 to 18 (Giardino Giusti, 2026a). For a family with two teenagers the second ticket saves 21 EUR over four full tickets. For repeat visitors there is a Membership Card at 55.00 EUR and a family Membership Card at 75.00 EUR (Giardino Giusti, 2026a).

The Verona Card does not give free entry here: the tourist office lists the garden among the sites with a reduction (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026b), and the garden sets that reduction at 10.00 EUR.

Opening hours by season

The official sources do not all show the same hours, so plan with the narrowest. The garden's ticket page currently gives every day from 10:00 to 17:00, with last entry at 16:00 (Giardino Giusti, 2026a). Its home page summarises the year as winter hours of 10:00 to 18:00 and summer hours of 9:00 to 19:00, open all year and closed only on 25 December (Giardino Giusti, 2026b).

The tourist office gives a three-season timetable, with last entry one hour before closing: from June to August 9:00 to 20:00, in April, May and September 9:00 to 19:00, and from October to March 10:00 to 18:00 (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a). It also lists 25 December as the only regular closing day.

For a winter visit, arrive by 16:00 to be sure of entry. The tourist office page lists extraordinary closures, such as the full-day closure on 16 October 2026 (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a), so check before a special trip.

There is no weekly closing day, which makes the garden a good plan for a Monday, when the Arena is closed (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026c).

Where to buy tickets and how to book

Tickets are sold at the garden's ticket office, online through the ticket link on the garden's opening-hours page, and through the purchase widget at the foot of that page (Giardino Giusti, 2026a). Individual visitors do not need to book. Groups of more than 10 people must book by email to [email protected], and guided visits for small and organised groups can be requested on any day of the year at the same address (Giardino Giusti, 2026a).

The garden also runs an open guided visit every Saturday at 10:30, in Italian, lasting about one hour. It costs 5 EUR per person on top of the entry ticket, and both tickets are needed (Giardino Giusti, 2026a).

Professional photo and video shoots, including weddings and proposals, need written permission from the management, requested by email, and a fee may apply (Giardino Giusti, 2026a). Picnics and packed lunches are not allowed in the garden (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a).

The garden has a free app for iOS and Android, advertised on the same page (Giardino Giusti, 2026a).

What you see: the garden, the terraces and the Appartamento 900

The garden keeps the elements of a sixteenth-century Italian garden: citrus in vases, mythological statues, fountains, cedars, grottoes, the belvedere with its carved mask, Roman remains and a viewpoint over the landscape (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a). The garden's own map numbers its main features, including the courtyard of honour, where Torquato Tasso's pastoral drama Aminta was staged in 1581, and the grotto, whose back wall was once lined with mirrors (Giardino Giusti, 2026c).

The family history goes back to the end of the 1200s, when the Giusti moved from Tuscany to Verona for the wool-dyeing trade. In 1406 Provolo Giusti bought land beside the old Via Postumia, and in the sixteenth century Agostino Giusti (1548 to 1615) turned the works yard into a palace and formal garden (Giardino Giusti, 2026c).

In the palace, the Appartamento 900 shows seven rooms as the family lived in them in the early twentieth century, including the Sala dell'Aurora frescoed in 1766 by Francesco Lorenzi. The family lived there until 1944, when bombing made it uninhabitable (Giardino Giusti, 2026d). Visitors recorded by the tourist office include Goethe, Tsar Alexander I and Mozart (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a).

Getting there and nearby sights

The garden is at Via Giardino Giusti 2, in Veronetta on the left bank of the Adige (Giardino Giusti, 2026e). On foot it is about 1.5 km and 20 minutes from Piazza Bra, and about 1.1 km and 15 minutes from Piazza delle Erbe (FOSSGIS, 2026).

By bus, the garden names ATV line 73 to Piazza Isolo and line 72 to Via XX Settembre, and the City Sightseeing stop in Piazza Bernardi (Giardino Giusti, 2026e). ATV's route list confirms that line 73 runs from Porta Nuova station via Piazza Cittadella and San Fermo to Piazza Isolo (ATV, 2026a). A 90-minute urban ticket costs 1.50 EUR (ATV, 2026b); our ATV bus tickets page explains the fares. If you drive, the garden suggests leaving the car in one of the city's car parks (Giardino Giusti, 2026e); see parking and the ZTL in Verona.

The garden sits close to the Roman Theatre and Archaeological Museum, the church of Santa Maria in Organo and the Natural History Museum in Palazzo Pompei (Giardino Giusti, 2026e), so a half day in Veronetta can take in two or three of them.

Access, dogs and family events

The garden is on three levels. The first is wide and flat, while the second and third have stairs and changes of height, and the apartment rooms have no lift. The tourist office states that visitors with disabilities can see only the lower part of the garden and cannot reach the apartment (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a).

Dogs on a lead may enter both the garden and the apartment; large dogs are admitted to the garden only (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a).

The garden runs events for families through the winter. For the national tree day on 21 and 22 November 2026 it offers guided visits with readings at 10:30 and a children's workshop for ages 5 to 11 on the Saturday afternoon. The dance and storytelling afternoon Miti a Palazzo takes place on 29 November and 20 December 2026 and on 17 January and 28 February 2027 at 15:00, lasts about an hour, needs a booking at [email protected] and requires the entry ticket (Giardino Giusti, 2026a).

The garden ticket is separate from Verona's civic museum tickets and from the churches ticket.