Bardini Hillside Gardens in Florence!

Bardini Gardens, next to Medici's Boboli garden, can be seen with the same entrance ticket!

The gardens climbing up a hill with many terraces, and are famous for the extra ordinaire blooming seasons through out the year, except now, off course :( Just have to come back!

This is the seasons, just check it out: Roses, Dahlias, Peones, Wisteria, Hydrangea, Camelias, Azaleas, Irises and much much more!

You have to use Your imagination when looking on these photos, Enjoy!

BARDINI GARDENS

Some flowers where there after all

The Gardens climbing up the hill, and nothing for people with walking difficulties

The view from the top of the gardens over Florence and the surrounding landscapes are amazing and there is a café where You can sit and just enjoy it all

Would not be a Italian garden if there wasn't scupltures, and this one there is also many modern ones

 Beatuiful Terracotta waiting for next season

Imagine this Wisteria & Hydrangea pergola in the spring, mmmmh

We are saying good bye to Bardini garden with a vista from the Garden Café.

Thank You for joining me, Per!

The Medici Familys green Imperium Boboli Gardens in Florence

After seeing The Borghese Familys Gardens in Rome, the Medici's Boboli Gardens in Florence is a must.

After the Medici's bought the Pitti Palace 1550, they also bought all the land behind it from the Boboli family.

Much more formal than Borghese in Rome, but inside each green walled block is hidden another little "natural" forrest or secret garden! Exciting! There are many sculptures and fountains off course, also new moden contemporary ones.

BOBOLI GARDENS

To see it all must take days, but here are a gallery from my 3 hours there, Enjoy :D

Here is a map over the Boboli garden with the Pitti Palace down to the left.

A view of the Palace from the gardens above

 Detail from the huge amphi theatre in the back of the palace

Antique sculptures can be found all over the gardens that where made as a open air museum for the family

 Behind these green walls are small forrests and secret gardens

The upper garden by the Casino del Cavaliere, now empty on flowers for the winter, except Roses.

The view of the landscape from the upper gardens

The collection of fantastic trees are amazing

One of my favorite artists, Igor Mitoraj made this huge bronze scuplture "Tindaro Screpolato" 1998

And it fits right in to the landspace here

I love the green alley ways

Behind the green walls You find all sorts of beautiful surprices

Isollotto's Basin with all the Citrus plants is a part of the garden that can be a cooling refuge after hours of walking

Pegasus by Aristodemo Costoli - 1865

The Spectacular view over Florence from the Garden Café

As I said, it takes days to see everything, and I missed some of the important pieces of European Art history, like the "Medusa Shield" & "The Dwarf Morgante", more reasons to come back, maybe when the flowers are in bloom as well.

Hope You enjoyed, I did!

Per!