Giardino Balbo

Not far from the Piazza-Giardino Cavour (it is a piazza as well as a garden), in the direction of Piazza Valdo Fusi, there is also the small square-garden (or gardens) -Aiuola Balbo, an area delimited by via Cavour, via San Massimo, via dei Mille and via Accademia Albertina.
 

Derived from the urban remodeling left after the demolition of the walls in the early nineteenth century, the design of the current garden was by Edoardo Pecco (1874), therefore enriched with statues of famous people. First of all the politician and writer Cesare Balbo (work by Vincenzo Vela), seated on the side of via Accademia Albertina and which gives the name to the gardens themselves, then the large statue in the center dedicated to the Venetian Daniele Manin (also a 1861 sculpture of Vela, depicting Italy crowned and surrounded by vertical fountains), Risorgimento patriot who distinguished himself for the independence of Venice from the Austrians in 1848. 
On the sides three busts recall as many illustrious characters: the patriot Gustavo Modena (work by Leonardo Bistolfi, also author of the statue to General Eusebio Bava), the Magyar revolutionary Lajos Kossuth (by Jòzef Damkò) and the diplomat Salvatore Pes di Villamarina (bronze by Odoardo Tabacchi).

Location : Giardino Balbo