The park next door dates to the 18th century and is now a nature protected area. It used to be a courtyard surrounding a small castle belonging to a Timisoara nobleman Iosif Malenitza. The castle was torn down after the Second World War and the park is thenafter a public area.

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In the southeastern part of the Park, there is an artificially created hill from which there is a view of what once was the lake. The special value of the park is the presence of valuable specimens of preserved dendoflora of considerable age and imposing dimensions, as well as the presence of some species that are not characteristic of this climate. They say the oldest Gingko Biloba tree in Vojvodina is the one there, among 20 different types of trees. It is over 170 years old, 3m wide and over 22 meters high! The park was built on the foundations of autochthonous forests, whose beautiful specimens were incorporated into the composition of the park, so the towering specimens of the oak (Quercus robur L.) still dominate the park. Of the old trees, left over from the time the park was built, all over 150 to 220 eyars old, there are also the hazel tree (Corylus colurna L.), the sophora tree (Sophora japonica L.), the domestic walnut tree (Juglans regia L.), the maple-leaf plane tree (Platanus acerifolia Willd.) and others. A special stamp of the park is given by the old row of silver linden trees (Tilia argentea Desf.) along the northern edge of the park and the row of wild chestnut trees (Aesculus hippocastanum L.) on the southern side of the park.

 

Because of the aforementioned preserved contents, the Park in Veliki Gaj is valuable for the study of the history of landscape architecture in Serbia.

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When the wind blows in the summer, it is as if you hear the waves splashing against the shore.