The garden was created between the mid-17th and the early decades of the 18th century. Facing south, it descends the hill slope with five terraces and two intermediate levels. The four flowerbeds around the central fountain of the top terrace are a rare example of a flower garden in its original form, with small partitions in stone placed around a pyramid-shaped pinnacle. Boxwood hedges and antique vases with citrus fruit grow on the other terraces with their exceptional collection of garden statues of characters from antique mythology and the Commedia dell’Arte repertoire, all made by the Orazio Marinali workshop based in Vicenza. At the bottom end of the garden is the so-called “Teatrino degli automi” a small limestone and shell-coated grotto equipped with automata for water and mechanical games and effects. At the centre is a statue of Cecco Birbo, a hunter dressed in 18th-century clothes in the act of playing his small trumpet and that originally also held a rifle. Behind the statue there are three closed niches each containing an automaton: a Turk playing the trumpet, Harlequin shaking a tambourine, and a forge, Vulcan’s perhaps. Originally all the figures could move. On the eastern side of the theatre there is a large lemon house for citrus fruit storage. On the western side of the garden there is a second grotto, the “Grotto dei frati”. In a long limestone-covered passageway the statues of two friars stand next to a closed niche containing a devil figure that squirts water. The garden was enlarged in the mid-19th century with the addition of the so called “Giardino dei tassi”, a vast quadrangular terrace with magnificent trees situated at the western end.