Giardini Peripato, Public park in Taranto, Italy.

The Giardini Peripato, also called Villa Peripato, is a public park and villa covering almost five hectares in Taranto's Borgo Umbertino, close to the Mar Piccolo. It holds Aleppo pines, plane trees, lindens, cypresses and holm oaks, with horse chestnuts, palms, magnolias, cedars and American cypresses added more recently. Remains of dwellings from the early imperial age were found on the grounds.

From at least the late 17th century the site was the garden of Sant'Antonio, owned by the de Beaumont family, who grew citrus and other fruit trees beside their mussel and oyster beds in the Mar Piccolo. In 1832 the de Beaumonts joined the Bonelli family of Barletta and, largely at the bride's wish, the area became a holiday residence with a representational role, gaining colonnettes, stairways and vaults. In the early 20th century it passed to the Comune of Taranto, which turned it into a villa comunale.

The name comes from the Greek perìpatos, the garden of the Lyceum in Athens where Aristotle taught, and it also gave its name to the Peripatetic school. It is pronounced "perìpato", with the stress on the second syllable. The adjoining area is called Atmosfera Villa Peripato and hosts musical events and dinner shows.

The gardens cover almost five hectares in the Borgo Umbertino, beside the Mar Piccolo, and are reached on foot from the surrounding streets. The open-air Arena Villa Peripato, derived from the 1933 Teatro La Pineta, hosts theatre, concerts and festivals, while the adjoining Atmosfera Villa Peripato area is given over to dining and musical evenings.

Excavations in the gardens uncovered remains of dwelling structures from the early imperial age, the only ancient evidence documented on the site. The finds sit beneath a park laid out as a public villa in the early 20th century, after the land had passed from the de Beaumont family to the Comune di Taranto.