Giardini Papadopoli, Public park in Santa Croce district, Venice, Italy

Giardini Papadopoli is a public park in the Santa Croce district situated along the Grand Canal, filled with mature cypress, cedar, and holm oak trees that create dense green coverage. The space features shaded pathways that wind through the vegetation, offering respite among the urban surroundings.

Francesco Bagnara designed the park in 1834 on land where a monastery of the Poor Clare nuns had previously stood until its closure during the Napoleonic suppressions. After the religious community departed, the grounds were transformed into this green space, which gradually became an important public area.

The gardens take their name from the Papadopoli family: Teresa Mosconi, wife of Count Spiridione Papadopoli, commissioned the park in 1834, and Niccolò and Angelo Papadopoli had it enlarged in 1863. Among the trees stands a marble statue of Pietro Paleocapa by Luigi Ferrari, dated 1873 and moved here from campo Sant'Angelo.

The park lies in an insula bounded by the Grand Canal to the north, the rio dei Tolentini to the east, the rio del Magazen to the south and the rio Novo to the west; the Rio Novo separates it from Piazzale Roma. Two small unfenced remnants of the original gardens, of 655 and 710 m², survive beyond the Rio Novo next to Piazzale Roma. The southern side is overlooked by the Papadopoli Hotel's winter garden, built in 1970 to a design by Pietro Porcinai.

Beyond the Rio Novo, beside Piazzale Roma, two unfenced remnants of the original gardens survive, of 655 and 710 m². The larger holds a small fountain set among artificial rocks, possibly the last trace of a nymphaeum or grotto. The other is little more than a flowerbed with a few cypresses.