villa medicea di poggio a caiano
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villa medicea di poggio a caiano印象
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Well worth a visit; gardens and park also interesting
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This was a lovely discover on our trip in Florence ,I was born in Prato and I have never been here!!This is part of the Medici family estate and it is a beautiful Villa with a great garden to visit in half day trip from Florence .The entrance is completely free and opens at 8.30am ( we visit in September , you may need to check different time during the year), the free tour runs for an hour every hour from 8.30am , you can also take pictures but without flash,the tour is not guided but I did not feel we needed it.
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Wow! What a gorgeous villa with murals and guilded chairs. We came during the open hours but when we tried to go in the doorswere locked. After a few tries someone came and let us in.
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This place is underrated. The building itself has beautiful painted walls and ceilings. The floors are a mixture of parquetry, marble and granite. The rooms have been furnished in period style. When we went there was a masterpiece by Georgio Vasari on display, which was worth the trip all by itself. Recommend lunch at Fiaschetteria I'Mulino across the road, where the pasta was amazing.
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This wonderful old Medici-palace, is a bit different to what you´ll see in Florence. Beautiful wall-paintings and a lovely garden, will give you a totally different feeling than the fortified homes they had in Florence. Worth a detour!
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Lorenzo the Magnificent's beautiful summer palace, it is the basis for every country house ever built. If you've ever been to Hearst Castle or Vizcaya in the US, this is where they got it all from. Castle Howard or Chatsworth in the UK, start here.If you have eyes to see, come here.
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It's hard to overstate the architectural significance of this place. Lorenzo de' Medici (the great) asked Giuliano da Sangallo to do something revolutionary in the late 15th century. Instead of the usual defensive, enclosed castle, he wanted a gracious building looking back to ancient Rome, set in gardens, with no military potential. It inspired villas throughout Tuscany, which inspired Palladio in the Veneto in the 16th century, who set the model for most of the grand country houses of England in the 17th and 18th, which then set the model for the idea of noble living around the rest of the world. (Including the White House in Washington D.C.)About a decade ago when I visited there wasn't a lot to see after admiring the world-shaping exterior. The main hall, filled with grand frescos glorifying the Medicis, comissioned by Medici Pope Leo X, and a 19th century theatre and billiard room added for Italian King Vittoro Emanuele, was about it. The government's clearly been beavering away, as the aforementioned rooms are now in great shape, and have been joined by almost all of the other rooms on the piano nobile (the main entertaining floor). These aren't Renaissance, but 19th century. Some are a suite of rooms done up for Napoleon's sister Elisa, who he made Grand Duchess of Tuscany and who took her responsibilities there seriously. This was a favourite retreat in Tuscany and the rooms are lovely examples of the light, delicate neoclassicism of the Napoleonic era. The other rooms, more of the renovations made for the King during the brief years when Florence served as capital of the newly-united Italy, are heavier-handed, but still a pleasure to explore. Though the villa had been emptied, the curators have found representative furniture to stage the rooms.Amazingly, Poggio a Caiano is free. As are all of the Medici villas. A bit of pay-back, I thought, for the steep service charges at the Ufizzi. These villas are also little visited. As opposed to the crowds in every corner of Florence, we spent an hour here on a Sunday afternoon wandering by ourselves. (In fact, it looked so empty we drove right by the first time, thinking it was closed.)
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If you like still lifes you must see exceptional and freak Bartolomeo Bimbi's fruits; he classified these by species, season or place of origin. This monumental pictorial cycle, masterpiece of Italian botanical still life is absolutely unique and makes very big impression. The Museum of Still Life (Natura Morta) is the only museum of its kind in Italy and Europe (200 works by Italian, Flemish and Dutch artists). The Villa Medicea at Poggio a Caiano was built by Lorenzo dè Medici and is the first example of Italian Renaissance architecture founded on classical models (in particular, those of Vitruvius) with characteristic elements of the noble architecture of rural Tuscany. There is also a splendid masterpiece by Pontormo:"The Allegory of Vertumnus and Pomona" (fresco).Important: for the visit of the Museum of still life is necessary booked to the number 055-877012.
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Se avete qualche ora a disposizione e siete vicino a prato non vi potete fare scappare un gioiello di storia ancora così ben conservatoLa villa ha molti mobili e dipinti antichi e anche il suo giardino all italiana e ben tenuto e curato
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A beautiful villa built by the Medici through several generations. It is fascinating to see how the tastes of the various members of the family change, but they still have the urge to collect. Don't miss it if you are interested in art and history. Only a half hour bus ride from Florence. On the practical side, please note that the instructions are clearly stated in English at the entrance, but when they start explaining that you need a reservation, it gets a bit confusing, so I'll share what I learned. There are two escorted tours (silent tours). One is for the interior of the villa and it starts on the half hour. No reservation neededThe other tour is for an art exhibition of Natura Morta collected by several of the Medici and it starts every hour on the hour. Only for this tour you have to make a reservation at the entrance. If you arrive in between those hours, as we did, walk around a little bit but make sure you stand at the door of the villa exactly on the hour or on the half hour depending which of the two tours you want to take. We enjoyed both tours. This is really worth your time and inexpensive since the entrance is free and the bus ride was about 2 euros.