Sights in Tuscany
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Museo Bardini
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Chiesa della SS Annunziata
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Boboli Gardens
Behind Palazzo Pitti, the Boboli Gardens laid out in the mid-16th century according to a design by architect Niccolò Pericoli are a prime example of a formal Tuscan garden and they are great fun to get lost in: skip along the Cypress Alley; let the imagination rip with a gallant frolic in the walled Giardino del Cavaliere (Knights' Garden); dance around 170-odd statues; meditate next to the Isoletto, a gorgeous ornamental pool; discover birdsong and species in the garden along the signposted nature trail; or watch Venere (Venus) by Giambologna rise from the waves in the Grotta del Buontalenti, a fanciful grotto designed by the eponymous artist. Other typical Renaissance…
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Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
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Giardino di Bardini
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Chiesa di San Francesco
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Cattedrale di San Romolo
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Museum of the Ancient Ships of Pisa
The Museum of the Ancient Ships of Pisa on Lungarno Simonelli opens in early 2010. The museum will display a remarkable collection of nine Roman cargo ships excavated from Pisa’s silted-up harbour in 1998 and restored over the past decade.
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