Writer In The Garden

Category: Florence

  • Villa Gamberaia, Florence

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    Sarah Salway
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    Although Villa Gamberaia is outside Florence (a 30 minute No 10 bus ride from San Marco Square), it has been designed so the view of the city becomes part of the garden itself. It’s a garden that has been much written about, ‘Nowhere else in my recollection have the liquid and solid been blended with…

  • Boboli Gardens, Florence

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    Sarah Salway
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    Our second Florence garden was the Boboli Gardens, just behind the Pitti Palace. Originally built for the Medici Family, and constructed on a hill once covered with olive trees and vineyards, it still retains an air of a perfect Italian classic design although apparently… ‘During the brief period of French rule, the Boboli gardens ran…