The most beautiful are:

🌳🌷🌼The Cascine Park.

Green lung of the city: it is the largest public park in Florence with a surface area of over 130 hectares that runs along the Arno River. From the center you can reach it on foot walking along the Arno or take Tram 2. (T2) Characterized by rich vegetation, large lawns, avenues and paths.

🔆"Le Cascine" is also a market place (every Tuesday morning) and the 4 Sundays before Easter: 03/30/25 - 04/06/25 04/13/25. 🔆

The park's arboreal heritage is very rich: in the Vittorio Veneto square you can admire the Atlas cedars, in the Cascine square there are stone pines, plane trees and a spectacular Ginkgo Biloba, on the edge of the Arno there are white poplars and in the Quercione meadow there are holm oaks, and finally in the Catena garden (horse chestnuts and cedars).

There are many species of birds that inhabit the Park: in addition to the most common ones (sparrows, swifts, blackcaps, starlings, blackbirds, robins, parrots, etc.) you can also see grey herons and egrets.

The first nucleus of the Park consisted of the Cascine dell'Isola estate, purchased by Duke Alessandro I de' Medici (1531-1537) and increased by Cosimo I (1537-1574) with the acquisition of other lands, all used for agricultural purposes and for hunting.

The first opening of the Cascine Granducali to the public is due to Pietro Leopoldo di Lorena, even if limited to exceptional occasions and events (shows organised by the court and Ascension festivities).
The first architectural intervention of great commitment was the construction of the Palazzina Reale, in the Cascine square, built in 1785 by the architect Giuseppe Manetti, who was also responsible for the pyramid-shaped ice house.
During the Napoleonic period, Elisa Baciocchi, Grand Duchess of Tuscany from 1807 to 1815, definitively transformed the Cascine into a public park, demonstrating a conception of rare modernity.
Giuseppe Poggi was the one who came up with the idea for the large access square to the Park, from which the current layout of Piazzale Vittorio Veneto derives, albeit with reductions and modifications.
At the end of the 1930s, architect Raffaello Fagnoni built the air warfare school, commissioned in 1935 and completed in 1938. This was the last significant architectural intervention in the entire Park.

🌳🌷🌼The Boboli Gardens are a UNESCO heritage site. It belonged to the Medici family and is located inside Palazzo Pitti. It could easily be defined as a true open-air museum for the quantity of statues, sculptures, fountains and grottos.

Open every day from 8.15am to 4.30pm (November to February), 5.30pm (March), 6.30pm (April to May, September to October) and 7.30pm (June to August). Closed on the first and last Monday of the month.

🌳🌷🌼The Bardini Garden

An enchanted garden. Four hectares of woods, vegetable garden and orchard nestled between the medieval walls of the city. A nature without equal. Today there are about two hundred pieces of sculpture, thirteen fountains, three caves, an exceptional “fountain wall”, a botanical heritage composed largely of centuries-old trees such as holm oaks and phillyrea, olive trees and numerous collections of plants such as hydrangeas, roses, camellias, azaleas and the splendid wisteria pergola.

Closed every first and last Monday of the month. Costa San Giorgio 2 or Via de Bardi 1

🌳🌷🌼The Rose Garden

It is located right under Piazzale Michelangelo. An exceptional combination of view and scent of roses. This “small” rose garden is composed of over 800 species and is a true oasis of relaxation. Obviously the best time to visit the garden is May. In the garden there is also a corner of Japan! The Japanese garden was donated to the Municipality of Florence by the twin city of Kyoto.

Open daily from 9am to 8pm in summer. Free admission.

🌳🌷🌼Garden of Villa Strozzi

Florentines love it and call it Il Boschetto. This is one of the most popular gardens for those who live in Florence: there are picnic tables, a play area and many spaces where you can relax. Open every day from 8 to 17

🌳🌷🌼The horticulture garden

This garden is located near Liberty Square, just outside the tourist area. It is a 19th century garden that is transformed into an event space for the summer months where it also hosts national and prestigious exhibitions in the field of floriculture such as the beautiful “Flower Festival” at the end of May.

The most beautiful piece is the wonderful glass and steel greenhouse by Roster called “the crystal palace”, which will transport you to an enchanted world. In 1990, in the upper and more panoramic part, the snake-shaped fountain with multi-material decorations, the dragon fountain, was completed. Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 4

🌳🌷🌼 The Stibbert Museum Park

At the same time as the house was being enlarged, the park was renovated and, designed by the architect Poggi, transformed from a simple garden into the romantic English park that can still be admired today, enlivened by small temples, grottos and water features.

The Limonaia where the citrus fruits and the most delicate plants were stored was built by the architect Giuseppe Poggi who created an elegant neoclassical building.

The stables were commissioned by Stibbert and his mother, who were passionate about highly valuable horses, and were renovated in 1858.

The Hellenistic temple is inspired by classical examples with a central plan surmounted by a dome covered in flaked majolica tiles.

The Egyptian Temple, built by Stibbert between 1862 and 1864 at the height of his Egyptomania, overlooks the lake in the lower part of the park.

The Park is open to the public free of charge at the following times:

April-October 8.00-19.00 November-March 8.00-17.00 The park is closed every Thursday,

🌳🌷🌼Garden Villa il Ventaglio

In the fifteenth century the building and the park were an innkeeper's house with a farm located on the Forbici hill, offering the opportunity for a stopover to pilgrims who went from Porta a Pinti to San Domenico di Fiesole.

Over the years it had many transformations and owners.

The estate with mulberry and olive trees was transformed into the current romantic park: with lime trees, elms, horse chestnuts and hackberries with views towards the city of Florence.

Characterising elements are the romantic lake, with a small island and a small bridge, in the entrance lawn.

1st and 2nd Monday of the month and from Tuesday to Sunday, with different seasonal hours.
March 8.15am – 6.30pm
April and May 8.15am – 6.30pm
June 8.15am – 7.30pm
July and August 8.15am – 7.30pm
September and October 8.15am – 6.30pm.
Closed: 3rd, 4th, 5th Monday of the month

via Giovanni Aldini, 10/12 - 50131 Florence +39 055 580283 museitoscana.cultura.gov.it/