Boboli Gardens
The Medici’s great garden behind Palazzo Pitti in Florence, with an amphitheatre, a grotto and fountains.
Eleonora di Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de’ Medici, bought Palazzo Pitti and had a terraced garden laid out on the hill behind it. Niccolò Tribolo began the work, and Bartolomeo Ammannati and Bernardo Buontalenti extended it.
The garden became a model for court gardens in Europe, among them Versailles. It shows the Renaissance idea of nature shaped by architecture and sculpture.
Materials: Terraces, avenues, grottoes, fountains and sculptures
Manufacture: Laid out from 1550 for Eleonora di Toledo behind Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
The amphitheatre in the upper part of the garden.
The Buontalenti Grotto with artificial stalactites.
The long cypress avenues towards the Neptune Fountain.