Boboli Gardens

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

The Boboli Gardens were opened for visiting back in 1766. This beautiful park belongs to the Renaissance of Italy. The year of the founding of the Boboli Gardens is 1550, indicating the wife of the Duke of Cosimo I Medici - Eleanor of Toled. The park was planned by Niccolo Tribolo, and after his death, other talented architects, including Bartolomeo Ammanati, Bernardo Buontalenti, were engaged in the ennoblement of the garden.

The Boboli Gardens did not immediately find their modern appearance, they were changed several times, and transformed. Nowadays, the park covers an area of 4.5 hectares and is an open-air museum. The whole garden is separated by beautiful paths with gravel, and the terrain itself is generously endowed with garden sculptures, the characters of which belong to the 16-17 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 at the amphitheater, where one of the first world performances took place. At the edges of the track, cypress and powerful oaks grow, and the obelisk from Luxor, the Neptune fountain, also adorn it. In addition to this path, there are others with which you can walk around the garden and see many terraces and beautiful fountains. Some of the paths of the Boboli gardens, which are blamed by green thick ivy, lead to the side of the park, where visitors to the greenhouse, as well as islands of an artificial nature called Izolotto, delight the eyes. A beautiful citrus garden in cute pots, as well as beautiful rose shrubs of old varieties, sprouts, sprouts on this plot of land. The local gates are decorated with mythical and ancient characters, and there are cozy little horses on the edges.

With the advent of the next ruler, the gardens of Boboli changed their appearance, supplemented with something. Thus, various groves with decorative lawns and statues appeared on the territory. Here you can see the legendary chubby dwarf, which is perched on the turtle. If you believe the beliefs, that is what the court jester Cosimo I looked like. Near this sculpture is the entrance to the town of Buontalenti, in the corners of which are Michelangelo slaves who seek to get 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 enjoy the beautiful view of the park that opens from this place.