The private iron bridge over the Rio de la Croce: from here you enter the Giardino Eden, between the little palace and the cypresses Photo: Unofeld781, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
In 1884 the Englishman Frederic Eden, great-uncle of the future prime minister Anthony Eden, bought six acres of abandoned orchard on the Giudecca: what remained of the ancient garden of the convent of Santa Croce, with the friar’s hut, a small patrician palace, four majestic cypresses and the vegetable gardener Pietro’s artichokes.
