Boboli Garden of the Senses

Name: Boboli Garden of the Senses
Start: 2024-06-01T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-01T12:30:00+02:00
Location: Giardino di Boboli

Multisensory visits

Sábado 1 junio, 09:30Passed

Herramientas de registro

ga-uff.eventiboboli@cultura.gov.it

The Boboli Gardens offers six special multisensory visits to discover the Superior Botany in three rounds: at 09.00, at 10.15 and at 11.30. Participants will be blindfolded and accompanied by our sensory guides to discover the botanical varieties, scents and sounds of this beautiful part of the garden. To participate you must book by writing to ga-uff.eventiboboli@cultura.gov.it and be in possession of the entrance ticket to the Boboli Gardens. Information about the meeting point will be provided once the booking is complete.

About the location

Giardino di Boboli

Piazza Pitti, 1 50122 Firenze

Città metropolitana di Firenze
Toscana

Behind Palazzo Pitti lies the wonderful Boboli Gardens. The Medici first took care of its arrangement, creating the model of Italian garden that became an example for many European courts. The vast green area divided in a regular way, is a real outdoor museum, populated with ancient and Renaissance statues, adorned with caves, first of all the famous one made by Bernardo Buontalenti, and large fountains, like that of Neptune and the Ocean. The successive dynasties of Lorraine and Savoy further enriched the structure, widening the boundaries that line the ancient city walls to Porta Romana. Of great visual appeal is the terraced area where there is the eighteenth-century Kaffeehaus pavilion, a rare example of rococo architecture in Tuscany or the Limonaia, built by Zanobi del Rosso between 1777 and 1778\. The visit to Boboli completes the visit to the Pitti Palace, of which it is an integral part, and allows you to fully grasp the spirit of court life and enjoy the experience of a garde