Monty Don's Italian Gardens: Florence (Part 2)

- Villa di Castello, Florence: The country residence of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, these gardens had a profound influence upon the design of the Italian Renaissance garden and the later French formal garden.
- Boboli Gardens, Florence: A historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766, representing one of the first and most important examples of the "Italian Garden", which later served as inspiration for many European courts.
- Villa Gamberaia, Florence: Characterized now by its eighteenth-century terraced garden, that Don calls "enormously influential".
- Villa I Tatti, Florence: Cecil Pinsent's first Italian Garden, influencing the notion Renaissance gardens were devoid of color except green.
- La Foce, Val d'Orcia: Cecil Pinsent's last Italian Garden, which Don considers "perhaps his greatest".

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