Between Piazzale Roma and the Grand Canal lies Venice’s best-known public garden: 7,500 square metres of holm oaks, cypresses and cedars, all that remains of a 12,000-square-metre romantic park commissioned in 1834 by Teresa Mosconi — wife of Count Spiridione Papadopoli, owner of the city’s largest private bank — and designed by the theatre designer Francesco Bagnara.