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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 16:39:00

Laid out behind the Pitti Palace by the Medici family in the mid sixteenth century, the Boboli Gardens are one of the largest and most influential historic gardens in Italy, climbing the hillside south of the Arno in central Florence. The fifty-hectare grounds remain a model for the formal Italian garden, shaping the great parks of Versailles and many other European royal palaces. The work began in the 1550s under Cosimo I de Medici, who had acquired the palace from the Pitti family and wanted ...