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Villa Gamberaia, this enchanting garden in the Settignano hills, is definitely worth another post.
(See categories Garden and Hills to see more photos from the garden and this beautiful area.)
This post will focus on the garden in the landscape. And the views really are stunning. Enjoy!
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Villa Gamberaia again. Like a secret enchanted garden.
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The old limonaia, the lemonary where the lemon trees are kept warm in winter. Villa Gamberaia.
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Florence is full of vaults and arches. Maybe most cities are, but in Florence you really notice them. And once you’ve started to see them, they are everywhere. Here Santa Maria Novella with her beautiful gothic stripes.
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Some of the most famous vaults of Florence.
Brunelleschi’s 15th century innovation for the loggia of Ospedale degli Innocenti.
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The same idea with slender pillars in a university building at via Santa Reparata.
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Behind the Santa Croce basilica is a lovely little garden with flowering pots and two pregnant, very cuddly cats.
And vaults.
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Under the Vasari corridor which connects Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti. From 1564.
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The Duomo, with its rich exterior. Both romanesque and gothic. Enough to feed one’s curiosity for a lifetime…
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Villa, wall and vaults at La Gamberaia in Settignano. Originally from the 14th century, but rebuilt and changed in every century since. Most of the villa itself was destroyed in WWII and rebuilt using old plans.
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A nocturnal door vault, like from A thousand and one nights…
Not sure of the street, somewhere in Santo Spirito area, Oltrarno.
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The courtyard of the ground floor of Palazzo Vecchio, which is free to visit. The frescoes almost reminding of Pompeii paintings. Simply stunning, a place to pop into every time you pass Piazza della Signoria…
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The cloister of San Lorenzo with its center orange tree – which seems to be bearing fruit
no matter what time of year one visits đ
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The arches of Ponte Santa Trinita. And a close-up of the peculiar Florentine tree-footed lamp posts.
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The San Francesco monastery at the very highest spot of Fiesole, overlooking the whole of Florence.
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Santa Croce with its magnificent frescoes by Giotto and Gaddi.
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Piazza Santissima Annunziata with the church by the same name, from the stairs of Ospedale degli Innocenti.
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The crypt of San Miniato al Monte, perhaps my favourite of all Florentine churches.
Romanesque, mystical, enchanting.
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One of the thousands of postcard views you see while walking in the Settignano hills.
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Santissima again, facing Duomo, from via Gino Capponi.
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And finally the last vault, from the Limonaia of La Gamberaia. It doesn’t get much more gorgeous than this, does it?
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Villa Gamberaia, in the Florentine hills just outside Settignano.
A visit that in itself was worth the whole trip. The place is enchanting đ
Just a small appetizer. More to come. Much, much more…
Olivi, cypressi, greens, greys, blues…
View from Villa Gamberaia, Settignano.
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