The garden was created in the 1970s when Professor Luciano Viatori, a lifelong enthusiast of botany and gardening, purchased a hill on the edge of Groizia, with a splendid view of the city.

With great perseverance, passion, and determination, Professor Viatori cleared the uncultivated land, reinforced the steep and landslide-prone sections, and built consolidation works, paths, steps, and wooden bridges. He also decided to place a pond inside the crater left by a bomb during the Great War and constructed an ingenious gravity irrigation system, which is still in operation today.

The garden thus presents itself as a gentle connection between three levels of terraces, where you can admire hundreds of rhododendrons and azaleas, collections of lilacs, hydrangeas, spireas, viburnums, osmanthus, peonies, climbing roses, plum trees and flowering apple trees, and around a hundred deciduous magnolias, which bloom continuously from March to June.

After Luciano Viatori's passing in February 2014, in accordance with his will, the Garden was donated to the Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia Foundation, which has undertaken to preserve and enhance this precious heritage for the benefit of the entire community, keeping the project and teachings of its creator alive.