Renato Balestra was born outside of Trieste.
In 1964, the garden inspired the song L'orchestra di Villa Balestra, written by Renato Rascel for the musical comedy Il giorno della tartaruga by Garinei and Giovannini
 All the main buildings of the former sixteenth-century Villa are now located outside the perimeter of the park of Villa Balestra and are all privately owned:Casino nobile: it boasts a loggia which, according to Vasari, was frescoed by Pellegrino Tibaldi

