Points of interest

Since 1251 the is the symbol of Florence: ever since 1954 this garden has been keeping and showing the most beautiful varieties of this flower and has 2.500 species. 2.5 hectares partly with olive...

***The garden is temporarily closed Formerly the garden of a Medici house, it became an Italian style garden in the XVII Century. At the end of the XIXth century the Director of the Museum of...

The garden is set up simply and rationally, with features evoking 15th-Century gardens. The wall fountain with the Riccardi Hercules is north, the loggia closed by the Riccardi family is south...

The park of the Stibbert Museum surrounds the building where Frederick Stibbert (1838-1906) lived and collected his precious items. Outside the villa there was a plain park which was completely...

The park was originally conceived for the private villa built by the architect Giuseppe Poggi for the Archinto family between 1839 and 1853, and included a small Romantic lake with a tiny island and...

Composed of a villa, a formal garden, a park, olive groves and a wooded area, the Villa Peyron complex at the Fontelucente Wood is located in a panoramic position overlooking Florence. The garden is...

This is one of the ‘New Jerusalems’ built in the 16th–17th centuries, mainly in central and northern Italy, to enable people to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre without actually going to...

Founded in 1049 by San Giovanni Gualberto, it is a picturesque monastic complex fortified located among the Chianti hills, at Passignano. The architectural complex still appears to be enclosed within...

Located on the border between Florence and Lastra a Signa, the abbey of San Salvatore and Lorenzo was founded towards the end of the 11th century, and inhabited by various religious orders, including...

This church was the former cathedral of Fiesole, it was restored thanks to Cosimo de' Medici and here worked first Brunelleschi and then Michelozzo. The Romanesque façade with white and green marble...