Boboli Gardens

Boboli Gardens is a charming territory, which is the best park ensemble that belongs to Italy. In the city of Florence, where the wonderful Boboli gardens are located, there is also a very famous landmark called Palazzo Pitti. Some tourists, visiting her, do not even realize that there is another place worth visiting very close by.

Boboli Gardens were opened to the public as early as 1766. This beautiful park belongs to the Renaissance of Italy. The founding year of the Boboli Gardens is 1550, with the exception of the wife of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, Eleanor of Toledo. Niccolo Tribolo was involved in the planning of the park, and after his death, other talented architects, including Bartolomeo Ammanati and Bernardo Buontalenti, were engaged in the beautification of the garden.

Boboli gardens did not acquire their modern look immediately, they were changed and transformed several times. Nowadays, the park covers an area of 4.5 hectares and is an open-air museum. The entire garden is divided by beautiful gravel paths, and the area itself is richly endowed with garden sculptures, whose characters date back to the 16th and 17th centuries, fountains and ornamental plants.

Among all the paths of the park, there is one – the most important, which leads to the back facade of the famous Palazzo Pitti. It originates from the amphitheater, where some of the world's first performances took place. Cypresses and mighty oaks grow along the edges of the path, and it is also decorated with an obelisk from Luxor and the fountain of Neptune. In addition to this path, there are others that you can walk through the garden and see the many terraces and beautiful fountains. Part of the paths of the Boboli gardens, which are wrapped in thick green ivy, lead to the side of the park, where greenhouses delight the eyes of visitors, as well as an artificial island called Isolotto. On this plot of land, a beautiful citrus orchard grows in pretty pots, as well as the most beautiful rose bushes of old varieties. The local gates are decorated with mythical and antique characters, and there are cozy benches around the edges.

With the arrival of the next ruler, the Boboli gardens changed their appearance and were supplemented with something. Thus, various groves with decorative lawns and statues appeared on the territory. Here you can see the legendary chubby dwarf perched on a turtle. If you believe the beliefs, then this is exactly what the court jester Cosimo I looked like. Next to this sculpture is the entrance to the grotto of Buontalenti, at the corners of which Michelangelo's slaves are located, who are trying to climb out from under a huge stone.

In one of the parts of the Boboli gardens, over a cup of wonderful coffee in the local Coffee House, you can admire the beautiful view of the park that opens from this place.