gardens and parks

On the hill behind the Pitti Palace is the wide Boboli Gardens, built by Cosimo I de' Medici around 1549 on the original design by Niccolò Pericoli, known as "Il Tribolo", which succeeded. The garden had to be a worthy setting for receptions of the Medici court and consists of a rich array of vegetation and buildings. It is accessed from the courtyard of Palazzo Pitti, through a staircase leading t...

gardens and parks

Bounded by the Arno, by the river Mugnone and the "canale delle Macinate", the Cascine park covers 118 hectares and is the largest public park in Florence. It was part of the property, Alessandro and Cosimo I de' Medici purchased for hunting and cattle breeding. Plantations and crops of the park were always well treated: there were planted many rare species of fruit trees. In 1786, fifty years a...