The wonderful Boboli Gardens lie behind the Pitti Palace. The Medici Family first created it, inventing the model of the Italian garden, which was copied by many European Courts. Read more.
The Botanic Garden, laid out as a garden of medicinal plants in 1545, is one of the oldest in the world. It occupies an area of over two hectares with more than 5000 species of plants. Read more.
The villa was commissioned by Lorenzo the Magnificent, and it was built to a plan by Giuliano da Sangallo, in a beautiful location. High on a porch, open on all sides to the garden and the landscape Read more.
The Petraia is one of the most charming Medicean villas for its beautiful landscape, for the excellence of the paintings and the lush nature of the park. Read more.
The Villa di Castello is one of the oldest suburban residences of the Medici family, who owned it since 1477. Preferred by Cosimo I, it was subject to special treatment. Read more.
One of the jewels of Florentine baroque, it is the masterpiece of the architect Giovan Battista Foggini, and it will become the seat of the new Antiquarium of the Archaeological Museum of Florence Read more.
The villa, located near the Fucecchio Marsh - a wetland with a particularly rich wildlife - was built in 1556 on the initiative of Cosimo I as a hunting lodge and territorial garrison. Read more.
