Created at the end of the 18th century, they are one of the earliest examples of an English-style garden in northern Italy, with historic furnishings and valuable plants. The gardens cover an area of 40 hectares around the Royal Villa.

Behind the Serrone, which borders the geometric garden currently dedicated to the rose garden, you enter the area laid out in the English style, characterised by nature that appears to be left to grow spontaneously, but which in reality responds to a precise overall design conceived by the architect Giuseppe Piermarini.

Following the paths through the rich vegetation of trees and shrubs, you reach the lake, with the classical temple in the background. From the banks, you can admire the tree branches reflected in the water, with the cave and the statue of Neptune, or cross the so-called “rock garden” to descend towards the large central lawn, admiring the waterfall and the small stream winding its way through the vegetation, which becomes sparser here.

Continuing along the telescope facing the villa, you can admire the Cave of Polyphemus, already depicted in the famous plates published to accompany the treatise by landscape architect Ercole Silva in the early 19th century, the neo-Gothic walls and the turret: all fundamental elements of the culture underlying the new landscape style.