Boboli Gardens

Boboli Gardens (Italian: Giardini di Boboli) is a park in Florence, Italy, and is home to a group of sculptures dating from between the 16th century to the 18th, with some Romanian effects.

Located gardens, behind the Pitti Palace, which is the headquarters of the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany in Florence, and there are some parks that date back to the 16th century. Which differs parks pattern since the mid-16th century to the park until the nineteenth century, it is also included in the pivotal developments, which were built of stone, to be home to statues of luxury and fountains, with the spread of coordinated details in the semi-public and private spaces that have been reported by the classic Alhjat : there are caves, and temples of the park and the like. Also it saw the opening of the park, with views of the expansive city, for the time unconventional.

Medici garden has been designed as one of the earliest examples of Italian garden that inspired the later of many European courts. The gardens also extends to the wide area to form a museum in the open air.
There are antique statues dating back to the Renaissance, and the caves and large fountains. While exploring a variety of gardens that evoke the spirit of treading on life in the court and enjoy the experience of the park, which is still working on the renewal of its natural cycle in line with the traditions of the past.



The main axis of the park focuses on the backend of the palace, which rises from the deep Boboli runway which states in its half of the classic track or racecourse. In the center runway, which diminished the position of the Egyptian obelisk which brought the Villa Medici in Rome.

Parks went through several stages of enlargement and restructuring work. Was the expansion in the 17th century to the current range of 45,000 m ² (11 acres). It may also formed Boboli air museum open to the garden, which includes Romania effects Gardens as well as the acts of the 16th century and 17.

Garden stretches from the hill behind the Pitti Palace as far as Porta Romana, and a current extension, to become one of the largest and most elegant gardens of the Italian style, through several stages of the work and the expansion and restructuring carried out at different times. The first business in the beginning of the affected region, which was closer to the palace, after it was purchased by Cosimo I de 'Medici and his wife Eleonora di Toledo, which has teamed up with this place is the new Palace of the Grand Duke's.

And continued to the families of the Medici and Lorraine to enrich and expand the park is also in the 17th century, 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to adding the beautiful lawns, and ways and small orchards and beautiful views Albanuramh, and made it the most expensive parks including complexes unusual decorations, and thus constitute a museum in the open air, which offered Romania statues both in the 16th century and 17.

Due to the nature of the Boboli Gardens, they are historical park that require restoration and ongoing maintenance. And through the establishment of the schedule, which provides these seasonal-term care, annual and long through modernization and periodic maintenance.
Clearly, architectural element and plant life involved more frequently than non-organic structures for the garden and decorated.
Statues still are a wonderful example of architecture and culture of Mannerist. And decorated internally and externally with the equipment to water plants and vegetation yuppie, and the fountain is divided into three main sections. Mural of natural cave, as a natural refuge, which includes the origin of the prisoners of Michelangelo (now replaced by a copy), and the statues that were first designed for the tomb of Pope Julius II. Other rooms in the cave has a place showers Venus Giamboluzhna famous group of 18th century Paris and Helen by Vincenzo de 'Rossi.
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