After the hustle and bustle of Florence yesterday, today we visited a hidden gem, the 16th century Villa Caruso Bellosguardo. More on this later, but it was lovely to wander around the grounds, and be the only people there.
Day 254
Tag: Italy
Day 253
Florence today. Didn’t do brilliantly with photography, just touristy shots, and then got heatstroke so had to come back to hotel 
. But what an amazing place. Magnificent buildings which I’ll try and wrangle into something half decent when I do the post on the universe blog, but for now here’s one of my fave bits, Neptunes bum 🙂
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It was a very good year 🙂
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The Medici Villa “La Ferdinanda” was commissioned by Ferdinand I (1549-1609) as a home to stay with their guests during the hunting within the Barco Reale, the vast reservoir created by Cosimo I.
The project was entrusted to Bernardo Buontalenti (1536 – 1608) and the building was completed in just four years, from 1596 to 1600.
Our hotel is part of the estate, and this is taken from the medieval village of Artimino, across the olive groves.
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So here I am safe and sound, in spite of hurtling through the sky in a steel tube with flaps, and in spite of roads which were narrow with twisty turns up the side of a mountain. Serious parping going round hairpin bends I tell you. No matter, here we are in a sumptuous hotel with fab views. This will all get to the universe blog eventually, before I die 😀 but this week a little taster.
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