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.» more

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). » more

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. » more

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. » more

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