gardens of giudecca

A garden in Venice? Hard to find. Gardens in Giudecca were the rule instead, not the exception, until a few years ago.
"I'm sick of all this water, I'm tired of pink and grey, of blue and of red. I thirst for dry land and green trees and shrubs and flowers: a garden. A garden! You know we have asked for one every where; there's no such thing in venice. If there were, what good! Does not the proverb speak of "Venezia, tomba dei fiori"?
("A Garden in Venice" by Federico Eden, London 1903)

It was sir Antony Eden's uncle to pursue his dream of owning a garden in Venice, thus building one of the most beautiful and famous gardens in the island of Giudecca (...)