The symbol of Florence is a red lily, so you’d expect it to have plenty of lush gardens, though you have to know where to find them.
Renaissance villas and pleasure gardens are spread around the Florentine countryside. They bear testimony to the influence the Medici family exerted over modern European culture through its patronage of the arts. Built between the 15th and 17th centuries, they represent an innovative system of rural construction in harmony with nature and dedicated to leisure, the arts and knowledge. These villas embody innovative form and function, a new type of princely residence that differed from both the farms owned by rich Florentines of the period and from the military might of medieval castles. The Medici villas form the first example of the connection between habitat, gardens, and the environment and became an enduring reference for princely residences throughout Italy and Europe. Their gardens and integration into the natural environment helped develop the appreciation of landscape characteristic Humanism and the Renaissance.
Not all Tuscan gardens are far out of town. We can visit some of the UNESCO Medici villas closest to town, or see some of the other very interesting gardens located right in the historical center.
Cost of the tour: from Euro 50,00 per hour based on 2 persons (total cost, not per person)
Entrance fees to the Gardens not included, to be paid locally (Bardini Garden entrance ticket is valid one day and can be used in the same day to enter Boboli gardens, Silver, Porcelaine and Costume Museum inside Pitti Palace).
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