Points of interest

On the road connecting Florence with Bologna is a beautiful park that is also a Unesco heritage site: the Parco Mediceo di Pratolino In the second half of the 16th century, Francesco I de’ Medici...

Villa della Petraia is situated a few kilometres from the city centre; the ancient fortified building, of which the large tower still remains today, was enlarged towards the end of the 16th century...

The garden is an amalgamation of three different properties that are still clearly discernible: the large central Baroque staircase leading to the Belvedere (from here one of the best panoramas of...

The Rose garden is a green terrace right below Piazzale Michelangelo overlooking the historic centre of the city and enjoying a breath-taking view equal in beauty to that from Forte Belvedere. The...

Mensola Park covers an area of about 20 hectares between Settignano and Rovezzano, and connect the village of Ponte a Mensola with the Arno banks through a pedestrian cycle path and a walkway leading...

The Medici family was the first to take care of the Boboli garden’s arrangement, creating the model of the Italian-style garden, then an example for many European courts, in which a rational order is...

The Renai Park was created from a degraded area to create a completely natural green and blue oasis. The park includes a nature reserve developed in collaboration with the WWF and leisure areas that...

The country villa was completed in 1610, and in the same year the gardens were remodelled for the first time. At the beginning of the 18th century, various architectural features, statues, fountains...

Originally called Villa San Donato, it was built in the 15th century by the will of Carlo de' Medici, with the aim of hosting the parsons of the nearby church. The later owners, Bombicci-Pontelli...

In 1854 the " Società Toscana d'Orticultura" (Tuscan Society of Horticulture) was constituted. In the second half of the 19th century the garden got larger and Giacomo Roster designed the big...