Les Jardins de Boboli

Behind Palazzo Pitti lies the wonderful Boboli Gardens. The Medicis were the first to take care of its arrangement, creating the Italian garden model which became exemplary for many European courts. The vast green area, divided evenly, constitutes a veritable open-air museum, populated by ancient and Renaissance statues, decorated with grottoes, first of all the very famous one created by Bernardo Buontalenti, and large fountains, such as that of Neptune and of the Ocean.