Botanical Gardens (Orto Botanico) Florence

Went to the place. The place with the David. The benches were behind him. Oh dear.

It's quite impressive, really. The hands and feet are strangely gigantic.

Side exhibit of Lorenzo Bartolini, lover of 'natural beauty' apparently. He's ninteenth century, young nude ladies and rows upon rows of busts. He did a sculpture version of …

... how far it is.  Guess we'll be taking the bus from now on!  But we walked past the very old Botanical Gardens and the historical home of Tomassi in college.  We took a picture to send to him, which we are sure he will ...

... you entry. We give up and head off to find the Palazzo Pitti up the road, its huge, grand and contains many museums and botanical gardens called the Boboli. It was apparently built in the 1400's by the banker Luca Pitti in an attempt to show one up man ...

... bonus of the Boboli gardens below. The gardens are much wilder and parklike than French-style, flower-filled botanical gardens. Hilly paths lead up to vistas of Florence. Though the café on the hillside is pricey, it's worth it for the view. ...

... 3:00pm in the middle of July- it was so hot! The gardens were not what I was expecting. Having visited the Missouri Botanical Gardens earlier this summer with my family, I was expecting something more along those lines. The gardens didn't really have any ...