Boboli Gardens: Skip The Line Ticket
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- Experience Florence's renowned Renaissance gardens without waiting in line. Wander through them as the nobility of the 16th century once did!
- Key features consist of a six-meter tall Egyptian obelisk dating back to the era of Ramses II, grottoes, and the Fountain of Neptune
- With your ticket, access is granted not only to Boboli Gardens but also to the Porcelain Museum and Bardini Gardens
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With these tickets for Boboli Gardens, you can avoid waiting in line and you can also visit the Porcelain Museum and the nearby Bardini Gardens. Visiting here means diving deep into the core of Renaissance excellence.
While you enjoy a leisurely walk along the well-groomed paths of this garden, you will find yourself immersed in a nearly flawless representation of Renaissance principles: unspoiled natural beauty, carefully arranged and elegantly embellished architecture, as well as authentic and imitation ancient structures. Remarkably, this garden was among the pioneering landscape undertakings that precisely outlined the concept of natural beauty in the Renaissance period. #innovator
Visiting this place offers a wonderful opportunity to escape the city hustle and bustle and admire the beauty of nature – especially the stunning ancient oak trees. The echoes of past civilizations are evident in the gardens, with notable features including Neptune's Fountain, the Fountain of the Ocean by Giambologna, and Giorgio Vasari's expansive Grotto. Moreover, there is the Egyptian obelisk dating back to the 13th century BC. The presence of sculptures and fountains scattered throughout the gardens gives visitors a sense of aristocracy.
The tickets for Boboli Gardens also provide entry to various other attractions located in and around the vicinity.The Boboli Gardens, covering an area of 111 acres, were gifted by Cosimo I de' Medici to his wife, Eleonora di Toledo, making it the very first Renaissance garden.The Bardini Gardens, which are less famous, is a smaller garden adjacent to it (and quieter) that has recently been made accessible to the public.Situated inside the Casino del Cavaliere on a hilltop with a view of the gardens, these significant and exquisite collections provide a record of the preferences (and resources) of the ruling elite of Florence.
