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Boboli
Gardens
 Listen
to the song of the birds, the whisper
of the wind and the see the sunbeams surfing
through the Pond of Isolotto. Walk into
the sculpted landscape of the Boboli Gardens
and have a royal picnic with the Medici
family. Learn of the passions and the
tragedies of the frail but proud and fair
Eleanora di Toledo and her husband Cosimo
I, as they planned the beautiful Boboli
Gardens.»
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Parco
Delle Cascine
 Archduke
Alessandro bought the first nucleus of
the Isola Estate, known today as the Parco
delle Cascine, in the mid-1500s and Cosimo
I subsequently expanded the estate. The
park's present name is derived from the
farms on the estate, which were primarily
dedicated to cattle raising (a cascina
is a barn). »
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Giardino
Dell'iris
 The
entrance to the garden is located where
Viale dei Colli opens into Piazzale Michelangelo.
The garden has more than 2,500 varieties
of the flower that has symbolized the
city since 1251. »
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Giardino
Delle Rose
 In
1865 Giuseppe Poggi (the architect who
masterminded the restructuring of the
future Capital of the Kingdom of Italy)
was asked by the City of Florence, to
turn his attention to the left bank of
the Arno. »
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