Gardini Boboli in English the Boboli Gardens is a park near the storical center in Florence. It is a home for collection of many sculptures from the 16th through the 18th centuries but also for some Roman antiquities.
This magnificent place is situated behind of the Pitti Palace which was the main seat of the Medici (the grand dukes family of Tuscany at Florence). The garden is designed in mid-16th-century style. The openness of the garden, with an expansive view of the city, was unconventional for its time. The gardens were very lavish. No access into this gardens was allowed only to the Medici family and no entertainment or parties ever took place there.
The Boboli Gardens were laid out for Eleonora di Toledo, the wife of Cosimo I de'
Medici. At the
beginning the works were stared by Niccolò Tribolo til 1550, then were continued by Bartolomeo
Ammanati. The
elaborate architecture of the grotto in the courtyard that separates the palace
from its garden is by Buontalenti.
The interesting thing about the Boboli Gardens is that lacks a natural
water source. To water the plants in the garden, a conduit was built from the
nearby Arno River to feed water into an elaborate
irrigation system which was very innovative for that time.
Inside the Boboli Gardens there is the amphitheatre with very important Egyptian obelisk brought from the Villa Medici at Rome. Another important point of
the beautiful place is in a fountain of Neptune (known to the irreverent Florentines
as the "Fountain of the Fork" for Neptune's trident), with the
sculpture of Neptune by Stoldo Lorenzi visible against the skyline as a
visitor climbs the slope. The gardens have passed through several stages of
enlargement and restructuring work.
Today you have to pay for the entrance
but this place is worth every penny. The Boboli Grades are especially beautiful in spring and summer but also
in winter there is a lot of magical atmosphere. As you can see under this place is a big
inspiration for artist.
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