Rodolfo Siviero, who succeeded in bringing back to Italy hundreds of masterpieces that had disappeared during the Second World War, bequeathed his home and art collection to the Local Government of [...]
This government palace with a defensive role (one side of it forms the western walls of Scarperia), has undergone several changes over the centuries. The original core built on the tower was modified [...]
The Monumental Cemetery of Antella, a locality in the municipality of Bagno a Ripoli, is an extremely interesting place from an artistic point of view, due to its particular history and grandeur. When [...]
The property of Mondeggi has a very old origin; already mentioned in the XIV century, the possession of the Bardi family from Florence was sold in 1427 to the Portinari and then transferred to Della [...]
In 1864, Giuseppe Fabbricotti bought “Lo Strozzino” property and, in the same year, he commissioned architect Vincenzo Micheli to turn the old hunting lodge into a luxurious residence. None of the [...]
The Pazzagli Art Park is situated in the south of Florence in a context of hills dotted with villas and castles. The Arno runs nearby. In the wide area of 23,900 square meters, it is possible to [...]
***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 [...]
This property was bought in the sixteenth century by Francesco Rinuccini and then sold to the Strozzi family that built the sixteenth-century building. In the nineteenth century, Prince Ferdinando [...]
