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  • 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…