Garden of the Palazzina degli Angeli -area of ​​ancient Este burials- (Giardino della Palazzina degli Angeli -area antiche sepolture estensi-)

The pits that formed the burial places of many members of the Este family in the 15th and 16th centuries are now located on private property. Marquis Nicolò III had erected the church (consecrated in 1440) and the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli on this suburban site. Starting from 1501, it was radically rebuilt at the behest of Ercole I, on a much larger scale. Ercole died in 1505, causing the work to be permanently suspended.

In 1798, the Napoleonic suppression fell on the monastery. Transformed into a stable, in 1805, the church was destroyed by a fire. In 1913, Adamo Boari had his brother Sesto build the Palazzina degli Angeli as a residence for himself, sending him the drawings from Mexico City, where he was living at that time. In 1916, they led to the discovery of the perimeter walls of the church and two graves with human remains. Boari left the tombs where they were, dictated new inscriptions and had a poplar grove planted around them, but the Second World War put an end to his work; in 1955, the bones were exhumed and transported to Corpus Domini, where they were laid to rest next to the bodies of other members of the Este family. In 1984, the Palazzina degli Angeli, reduced to a state of total abandonment, was purchased by the architect Giulio Zappaterra, who restored it.