Twenty-two days of one trip. Day seventeen
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Entrance to the Boboli Gardens - one hundred meters from the hotel, from the Piazzale di di Porta Romana >), where we first went to the cafe "Petrarca" for morning espresso.
I will be able to convey the next event only in Russian, no other language is suitable. "Ma'am, can I take your turn? " - We heard behind our backs, and saw two beautiful women from Lviv, as it turned out a little later. We escaped from our families and from work to Florence for three days, lived in an apartment near our hotel, and returned home the next day. They were told about their journey. For another twenty minutes we talked about painful topics about the beauty of our Carpathians and Ukraine, which is not worse than any European one. I noticed how the visitors of the cafe listen to the Ukrainian language with interest, how the men look at our beauties! See you in Greater Lviv!
Boboli Gardens entered from our Roman street, walking three hundred meters along it.
Boboli is a slope on the left bank of the Arno. The park was created for the Medici family, they came to it directly from the family nest - Palazzo Pitti. All (almost all) European parks were created in his likeness. The idea belongs, of course, to a woman - his wife Cosimo 1. It's about eleven, and the people in the garden are not visible.
Near the entrance "caught" a naked couple ...
...in the pool with fish.
This is the grotto of Adam and Eve. Buontalenti and Vasari created several grottoes and sculptures for the park, some of which were brought from Rome. We went around half of the territory, so not everyone was able to take pictures.
It is good here in the spring, when the gardens are in bloom and not so hot, then you can walk all day. The park is almost five hundred years old, the sculptures seem a bit over a large area, beautiful, clean.
In a small pond, Neptune catches fish:
And yesterday he was taking a shower in Signoria Square.
In the middle of the stadium ...
...a huge bathtub and an Egyptian column. She was brought here from the Valley of the Kings, from Luxor, why - it is unclear.
Near the Palazzo saw something nickel-plated and polished, he called it "feet":
Going up to the porcelain museum, I noticed this:
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I give you the opportunity to name the sculpture, and at the same time this person. None of these works dissonant with the environment.
Coffee house closed:
But his view of Florence compensates for this shortcoming ":
Stairs, along the path, past alleys and sculptures ...
...the Cavalieri Garden and the Porcelain Museum climbed to the highest point of the park.
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The dishes from which Napoleon had to eat, well, all sorts. Bonaparte's parents were Florentines who moved in the 16th century to Corsica, then part of the Tuscan Duchy. Becoming emperor of France, he conquered Italy, visited Florence (Italian - his native language), then served time in exile on the Elbe.
Here is a portrait of Buonaparte (buona - beautiful, parte - part):
He was Italian, they say he didn't know French until he was fifteen, but that didn't stop him ...The dishes were kept and shown to us. Admission is free ( no pagamento ). Beautiful plates, cups, vases:
But the view of the city is not worse:
In the distance on the mountain you can see the Torre del Gallo - a millennial fortress:
There is a hotel with apartments, swimming pools, which not everyone was destined to rent. On the first day we passed by.
I don't think I missed anything, let's go to Palazzo Pitti ...
...outwardly not very attractive, but you should know that this is the home of the Medici and many of the noblest families of Florence, and they knew a thing or two about the arrangement of their residence, the gardens of Boboli confirm this.
If you don't have time at the Uffizi, you should definitely come here, especially since it's both easier and cheaper. There are few visitors, you can walk calmly and be amazed by everything.
In Napoleon's bathroom no one:
The bedroom is empty, the bed is neatly made:
The emperor's office is free:
Well, Bonaparte can forgive the absence from work, but tourists - no.
The main "masters" here are Titian and Raphael.
It's getting dark in the rooms, so the photos don't come out, and that's fine - we have enough of them from the Uffizi. In this museum you can relax and soak up the spirit of this home, stand quietly near Titian, understand how Raphael is different from him.
I like Raphael more, not to mention that he is a hundred years older than Titian.
But for Venus of Urbino, Danae and the Abduction of Europe by Titian, I have a lifelong gratitude from me. I would no doubt take these guys for finishing work on endless construction sites in Kyiv. Do you think they would agree?
Palazzo Pitti is not inferior to Uffizi, and something surpasses him, we really liked. Do not believe - urgently here! Well, at least look at it.
Wandering the left bank of Florence, wandered into the hotel.
By 6 pm they came, started packing, searched for the keys to the parking lot for a long time, then remembered where he was, then went to make sure that both the parking lot and the car were in place.
Tomorrow we have to be in Milan, where a place for us and a car is booked on February 6, and where our old "Turkish" acquaintances are to arrive on August 20-21 after vacations and business trips.
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