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Parks and Gardens in Florence
Cascine Park
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The Cascine were part of the estate and were purchased by Alessandro and Cosimo I Medici to be used as a game reserve and for bovine farming. In 1786 Giuseppe Manetti started to restore the Cascine in to a huge public park enriched with fornitures and architectures.
The Cascine Park are situated on the right river of the Arno river, the great territorial extension makes the Cascine park the largest park of the city of Florence. The Cascine park, represented an immense agricultural estate of property of Alexander and Cosimo de' Medici; the park were therefore destined to game preserve and the breeding of the bovines. Inside the park they reserves particular type of cultivations and plantat ...
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Iris Garden
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The Iris garden is caught up covering the Viale dei Colli in Florence direction. The entry, placing the shoulders to the David, is on the left of the Michelangelo square, to the beginning of the pedestrian distance that follow the Viale dei Colli until Ferrucci public square.
The garden of the Iris is visitabile in the month of May, the month of the closing of "giglio" or "giaggiolo", symbol of the Florence city.
The Iris garden receives beyond 2000 varieties of this flower that, probably for its several and luminous colors took the name from the Goddess Iride, messenger of Godness that, melting its scarf, formed the rainbow.
The iris diffused in the Arno Valley is represented of red ...
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Garden of the roses
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The Garden of the roses has been realized in one portion comprised between the Rampe street and the Delle Croci street, by the Florence Istitution. The Garden is a typical garden of breeding of the roses. It has constituted for decades one of the most important exposition of a tradition fiorentina garden and ulterior accessory of the street Dei Colli. Especially in May it presents with a great exposition of varieties cultivated roses.
Meaningful it is also the irrigation system: the reservior is localized up in the forest, behind the loggia of the Michelangelo Square, while a duct bring the water until to the the garden. In 1998 it has been enriched of a "international space" with the cr ...
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Semplici Garden
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The "Garden of the Semplici" is the third of the gardens of medicinal plants, after the gardens botanists of Pisa and Padova. The garden was constituted the 1 December 1545 by Cosimo dei Medici.
The entry to the "Garden of Semplici" is in Pier Antonio Micheli street.
Opened to public in timetable 9,00-13,00 except the saturday and Sunday, the income is free for children under the six years, adults with more than 65 years.
Approximately the half of the surface is dedicated to the collections in greenhouse, than they are distinguished in: "warm greenhouses", of exotic origin and "cold greenhouses" the collections of Cicadee, citruses, palms and carnivorous plants.
The collections are enric ...
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Boboli Garden
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The garden of Boboli is annexed to the complex of Pitti Palace and is one of the greatest parks in Florence (45,000 m2). The garden of Boboli constitutes one of the best existing examples of Italian garden in the XVI century.
The reputation of the Garden of Boboli is born with the Medici. The Garden of Boboli was planned by Niccolò Pericoli, saying the Tribulation, artist whom already had given to test of its qualities realizing the garden of the medicee villas of Castle and the Petraia.
The Garden of Boboli is an example between the more important and can be defined a museum to the open, for the importance of its architectonic system, than for the numerous scultoree presences present ...
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