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For a moment of respite from the urban centre, a trip to one of Florence’s gardens is always a good idea. For news on the parks and gardens that welcome visitors, as well as advice on how to create your own natural oasis, take a look at the following selection of The Florentine’s green-themed articles.
The gardens were created between 1724 and 1727 at the behest of the Electress Palatine.
English head gardener Will Smithson shows us around the "garden rooms" at this Chianti property.
The botanical garden is a green oasis, hidden in the city centre's urban cacophony.
The master gardener offers tips and tricks for terraces, indoor gardens and green corners.
100 selected craftspeople show their expert wares from September 15 to 17.
Antique plants, water features and frescoes await visitors.
Largest private donation of 4.5 million euro ever received by a museum in Florence
A mural by Lorenzo Tonda and Federico Niccolai addresses the issue of community integration.
Americans Laura Shadden and Allyson Volpe are on a mission to expand Florence's bee population.
The royal park will receive 50 million euro for restoration and new amenities.
Entrances reopen, with free entry for residents of Florence.
The Ginori Museum gardens in Sesto Fiorentino will reopen in the third week of May, although the museum will remain closed for restoration.
The Caccini Garden, off borgo Pinti, was one of the most beautiful and exotic gardens in Florence at the end of the 16th century.
The Italian garden is the setting for a series of high calibre events this season for a blissful experience just a short distance from Florence.
Garden with a View, off viale Michelangiolo, is an art park that's the life’s work of Alice Esclapon de Villeneuve.
Last summer, I had a no-commitment opportunity to try my hand at vegetable gardening at a shared plot across town. It was a brief, long-distance relationship that suffered from my ...
Florence is a city of stone, of imposing civic, religious and domestic architecture—where power and wealth are communicated in girth and in height. Massiccio—solid, hefty—is the adjective used to describe ...
Florence continues to reopen its museums and monuments after the Covid-19 lockdown
Boboli was the model that inspired all of Europe’s court gardens, including Versailles
The Boboli Gardens and the Wilanów Palace Museum, in Warsaw, Poland, have teamed up to protect, preserve and promote their historic citrus plant collections.
The never-before-opened “secret” camellia garden is also part of the renovation project.
The best hotel is one that provides an escape: a time-out from everyday tasks that allows you to just be. Sure, the decor, food and location are all significant when ...
