Villa Medici in Fiesole

The Villa Medici in Fiesole is one of the oldest and best preserved Villenbauten the Medici family. It was built from 1451 to 1457 at the behest of Cosimo de ' Medici by Michelozzo di Bartolomeo for Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Cosimo's second oldest son. The villa did not act as a center of agro-economic operations but as a place of recreation and the aesthetic and intellectual stimulation. Lorenzo il Magnifico inherited the estate in 1469 from his uncle, he gathered here Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Angelo Ambrogini, also known as Poliziano. The villa was owned by the Medici to 1671st

The garden of the villa is designed on three terraces. On the top are lemon trees in pots, the second is equipped with magnolia trees, flower beds, boxwood hedges and a large central fountain. The third terrace was designed in 1911 to 1923 by Cecil Pinsent and Geoffrey Scott in the Italian style with a pergola. The villa can be visited privately owned and only extremely limited.