{"id":62,"date":"2025-04-16T15:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T13:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2025-06-13T16:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:26:26","slug":"what-to-see-inside-boboli-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/what-to-see-inside-boboli-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"What to see inside Boboli Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Boboli Gardens is <strong>one of the most beautiful gardens in Florence<\/strong> city center; it&#8217;s an <strong>open-air museum<\/strong> with antique statues, grottoes and fountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A marvelous place wanted by the Medici family<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Medici family was the first to curate this green area, transforming it into a design garden that became the model for Italian-style gardens for European kings and noble families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the garden of Palazzo Pitti, that was the official residence of Cosimo I and his wife Eleonora di Toledo. It was thanks to Eleonora if this garden was turned into a marvelous place.&nbsp; Tribolo was the architect that designed and realized the Renaissance garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/boboli2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/boboli2.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/boboli2-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/boboli2-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to see inside the garden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Inside the oldest area of the garden there is the <strong>Grotta Grande<\/strong>, one of the finest example of Mannerist architecture and culture, built by Bernando Buontalenti (1583-1593). Tribolo built the large Amphitheater that rises the hill, but the architecture we see today was implemented in 1618 by Giulio Parigi. The <strong>Egyptian obelisk<\/strong> comes from Ammon&#8217;s Temple in Luxor and was placed there at the end of XVII century; the <strong>gray marble tub<\/strong> comes from Caracalla Thermal baths in Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/boboli3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/boboli3.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/boboli3-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/boboli3-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When the Lorena family took over the Gran duchy and the Palace, they commissioned new buildings: the <strong>Limonaia<\/strong> was built in 1775 to host the precious collection of citrus trees. Between 1765 and 1790 Pietro Leopoldo di Lorena, restored the gardens and re-organized some parts: <strong>Meridiana building<\/strong> and <strong>Kaffeehaus<\/strong> date back to that period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pietro Leopoldo opened the gardens to the public<\/strong> for the first time ever. In 1834 there were created large avenues for coaches and 16 mazes were destroyed, together with some straight alleys. <strong>Since then the Boboli Gardens are almost the same<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featured image \u2013 www.turismo.intoscana.it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boboli Gardens is one of the most beautiful gardens in Florence city center; it&#8217;s an open-air museum with antique statues, grottoes and fountains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visit-florence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exclusiveconnection.it\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}