Marghera's Garden District declared of significant public interest

The so-called Garden Quarter of Marghera, in the Municipality of Venice, has been declared to be of considerable public interest, since “it constitutes a characteristic ensemble of the twentieth century that bears witness to a significant phase in the history of the city and in urban planning theories, constituting an urban landscape of considerable interest for its overall features and its individual parts. As such, the Marghera Garden District, by urban layout, by the distribution of the lots with garden uncovering and delimitation with characteristic fences supplemented by hedges, by the typology of the small villas even as for those of the terraced and mansion houses, as documented in the annexes that are an integral part of the constraint, represents a set of historical and aesthetic value of uncommon testimony deserving of landscape protection.”

The Official Gazette states that "the Marghera Garden District, which arose in close connection with the industrial port area of mainland Venice, was designed by Emilio Emmer in 1920 as a “new suburb of Venice on the mainland,” an Italian realization of Ebenezer Howard’s urban planning theories on the garden city; built soon after the two London garden cities of Letchworh and Welwyn, it shares with those the scheme of the central avenue as the fulcrum of urban composition, the subdivision into lots, and the garden house typology."

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Marghera's Garden District declared of significant public interest

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