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  2. Medici villas - Wikipedia

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    Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany. /  43.85778°N 11.30417°E  / 43.85778; 11.30417. The Medici villas are a series of rural building complexes in Tuscany which were owned by members of the Medici family between the 15th century and the 17th century. The villas served several functions: they were the country palaces of the Medici ...

  3. Villa Le Balze - Wikipedia

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    Villa Le Balze is a garden villa in Fiesole, a comune of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany in central Italy. The villa was commissioned and built by Charles Augustus Strong in 1913, where he spent much of his life. It was then embroiled in the fighting of the Second World War and came into the possession of Margaret ...

  4. List of plantations in Alabama - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.

  5. Villa Gamberaia - Wikipedia

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    The gardens were also a favorite gathering place for friends and families of Pr.ss Ghyka and her American companion, the artist Florence Blood, and of Anglo-American and European expatriates who made their homes on the hills of Settignano and Fiesole, among them Benard and Mary Berenson at Villa I Tatti, Janet Ross at Poggio Gherardo, Vernon ...

  6. Villa Medici at Cafaggiolo - Wikipedia

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    The Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo is a villa situated near the Tuscan town of Barberino di Mugello in the valley of the River Sieve, some 25 kilometres north of Florence, central Italy. It was one of the oldest and most favoured of the Medici family estates, having been in the possession of the family since the 14th century, when it was owned by ...

  7. Italian Renaissance garden - Wikipedia

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    Gardens of the Villa Aldobrandini (1598). The Italian Renaissance garden was a new style of garden which emerged in the late 15th century at villas in Rome and Florence, inspired by classical ideals of order and beauty, and intended for the pleasure of the view of the garden and the landscape beyond, for contemplation, and for the enjoyment of the sights, sounds and smells of the garden itself.

  8. Boboli Gardens - Wikipedia

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    The Boboli Gardens ( Italian: Giardino di Boboli) is a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766. Originally designed for the Medici, it represents one of the first and most important examples of the Italian garden, which later served as inspiration for many European courts.

  9. Villa Il Gioiello - Wikipedia

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    Coordinates: 43°44′51.25″N 11°15′27.23″E. Villa Il Gioiello. Villa il Gioiello ("The Jewel") is a villa in Florence, central Italy, famous for being one of the residences of Galileo Galilei, which he lived in from 1631 until his death in 1642. It is also known as Villa Galileo (not to be confused with the other homes of Galileo found ...

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