Description
"Twelve villas and two gardens spread across the Tuscan landscape make up this site which bears testimony to the influence the Medici family exerted over modern European culture through its patronage of the arts. Built between the 15th and 17th centuries, they represent an innovative system of construction in harmony with nature and dedicated to leisure, the arts and knowledge. The villas embody an innovative form and function, a new type of princely residence that differed from both the farms owned by rich Florentines of the period and from the military might of baronial castles. The Medici villas form the first example of the connection between architecture, gardens, and the environment and became an enduring reference for princely residences throughout Italy and Europe. Their gardens and integration into the natural environment helped develop the appreciation of landscape characteristic Humanism and the Renaissance."Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/175
175-001 Villa de Cafaggiolo
175-002 Villa de Il Trebbio
175-003 Villa de Careggi
175-004 Villa Medici de Fiesole
175-005 Villa de Castello
175-009 Villa de Cerreto Guidi
175-010 Palais de Seravezza
175-012 Villa La Magia
175-013 Villa de Artimino
175-014 Villa du Poggio Imperiale
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| 175-006 Villa de Poggio a Caiano |
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| 175-007 Villa de la Petraia |
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| 175-008 Jardin de Boboli |
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| 175-008 Jardin de Boboli |
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| 175-008 Jardin de Boboli |
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| 175-011 Jardin de Pratolino |
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