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The Boboli gardens
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Rising steeply immediately behind the Pitti Palace, the enormous formal gardens are yet another Medici initiative. Florence lacks public parks, and the Boboli gardens are the largest green and open space in the city. Truth be told though, they tend to be less green and more `brown and dusty´ at the height of summer, but there is abundant shade and the gardens are most definitely picnic destination number one. | |
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The gardens have a large network of clipped pathways and statues are everywhere you look (the tortoise straddling dwarf has probably decorated more T-shirts and postcards than David himself). Not wanting to get left behind in the scaffolding stakes, the Grotta del Buontalenti is under repair and temporarily bereft of water. Last, but far from least, the Boboli gardens offer some of the finest panoramic views of the city that your camera could wish for. | |
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