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FLORENCE CITY GUIDE ® AUGUST 2018 FLORENCE.WHEREITALIA.COM ALL YOU CAN DO IN THE CITY INSIDE: HOW TO GET 10% OFF YOUR SHOPPING Exclusively for foreign COVER IMAGE BY individual customers SIGHTSEEING | MUSEUMS | SHOPPING | DINING | ENTERTAINMENT | MAPS YOUR TRAVELING COMPANION SINCE 1936® ® WELCOME TO FLORENCE Florence August 2018 whereMAGAZINE Florence florence.whereitalia.com HIGH-QUALITY ITALIAN EXPERIENCE WHERE ITALIA SRL Via Ezio Biondi, 1. 20154 Milano. T: 02 349951 - Fax 02 33107015 If you are reading this magazine, you are very VIA SESTESE FOCUS SIGHTSEEING [email protected] 10 50 florence.whereitalia.com likely to be a “High-Quality Traveler”. This is CASTELLO PUBLISHER AND EDITOR-IN-CHIEF because you are using quality tourist information SESTO the guide Andrea Jarach ([email protected]) FIORENTINO to guide you on your stay in Florence. 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    A NORD OVEST TRA PIANURA E COLLINA: CASTELLO E LE VILLE MEDICEE La mappa Il territorio del nostro percorso Questo percorso presenta aspetti di assoluto interesse storico, artistico e paesaggistico, in cui spiccano per bellezza, importanza, monumentalità le ville suburbane di svago e delizia: quelle medicee di Castello e Petraia, con i loro meravigliosi giardini all’italiana (non solo natura adattata alla geometria prospettica del verde, ma programma metaforico e simbolico del potere e del prestigio del Principe) e quelle che furono dei Villa di Castello; la grotta degli animali Medici, come Villa Corsini, ma anche Villa La Quiete alle Montalve (anch’essa appartenuta ai Medici) dove, dal 1724, risiedette Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, elettrice Palatina, ultima discendente della famiglia. Questa zona, in parte arrampicata sulla collina di Quarto, deve il suo nome all’antico borgo di origine etrusca e romana (Castellum, cioè cisterna, serbatoio d’acqua) su cui passava l’acquedotto fatto costruire dal senatore Marco Opelio Macrino (164-218) e col quale venivano distribuite Villa della Petraia:veduta le acque verso Firenze. Terra elettiva per l’otium e la delizia dei Medici, teatro di eventi fondamentali nella vita della famiglia, oggi la zona preserva, pur assediata a valle dallo sviluppo urbanistico, una sua precisa e straordinaria memoria storica fatta, anche, di strade e viuzze murate a racchiudere porzioni di campagna, antiche case contadine, olivete e poderi, testimonianza di un passato a vocazione agricola basato sull’organizzazione
  • Le Lunette Di Giusto Utens Alla Ricerca Di Un Luogo Ameno E Di Svago Per La

    Le Lunette Di Giusto Utens Alla Ricerca Di Un Luogo Ameno E Di Svago Per La

    Le lunette di Giusto Utens Alla ricerca di un luogo ameno e di svago per la corte, Ferdinando I de' Medici ordinò nel 1596 a Bernardo Buontalenti l'edificazione, nei pressi del Barco Reale, della villa di Artimino. La collocazione, un alto poggio dal quale l'imponente fabbrica domina il territorio circostante, fu scelta come metafora del fermo governo del Medici sul principato toscano e la residenza di caccia fu presto nota con l'epiteto di "La Ferdinanda" in onore del suo fondatore, il granduca. Come per il sito scelto, anche la decorazione interna vuole celebrare il potere mediceo. La monumentale architettura dei due saloni di rappresentanza fu infatti arricchita da affreschi e stucchi dorati secondo un elaborato programma iconografico, volto ad esaltare le virtù personali di Ferdinando I e di sua moglie Cristina di Lorena tanto quanto la magnificenza del loro regno. Nel cosiddetto Salone Grande, in particolare, le lunette di raccordo tra le pareti e la volta del soffitto diventarono il luogo ideale per celebrare i possedimenti del principato mediceo ed il controllo capillare del territorio operato dal granduca. E' qui che trovarono posto 17 tele raffiguranti le principali ville medicee, lunette che tra il 1599 ed il 1604 il pittore fiammingo Giusto Utens realizzò con minuzia di particolari utilizzando una prospettiva "a volo d'uccello". Le ville scelte sono Cafaggiolo, Il Trebbio, Pratolino, Marignolle, Lappeggi, Castello, La Petraia, il Belvedere con Palazzo Pitti, Poggio a Caiano, L'Ambrogiana, Montevettolini, La Magia, Colle Salvetti, Seravezza. Perdute sono invece le tele raffiguranti Careggi, Cerreto Guidi e Artimino. Le tele furono trasferite nel 2014 nella villa medicea della Petraia dove sono oggi esposte al pubblico, dopo essere state a lungo in deposito presso il Museo Storico Topografico "Firenze com'era".