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Parco Massari is the widest of Ferrara’s public gardens: its surface is of 4 hectares, and is name after the adjacent palace built at the end of the 16^th century. It was owned by the counts Massari in the 20^th century, who modified it into an English style garden rich in statues, bushes and other plants. The design of flowerbeds is the one of the 19^th century and most of the trees are centuries old: among them, two ciders from Lebanon (Cedrus libani) at the entrance, some yews (Taxus baccata), a majestic ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) and a giant English Oak (Quercus robur) at the entrance of Corso Ercole I d’Este.
Once, the park was completely surrounded by a high boundary wall, of which remain now only two of the seven entrances, the principal one towards Corso Porta Mare and a second one facing corso Ercole I d’Este. Next to the first access, a hedges’ labyrinth was present, but it was eliminated in the next years because of safety problems.
Since 1936 the park belongs to the municipality of Ferrara, which transformed it into a public park.

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