HOW ARRIVE TO GHERARDESCA'S GARDEN:
Exit of Home in Palace and go to Santissima Annunziata square and after 50 meters turn left on Via Giuseppe Giusti. After 300 meters turn left again in Borgo Pinti and after about 100 meters you're there. Total distance 450 meters from your bed and breakfast Home in Palace.

HISTORY OF GHERARDESCA'S GARDEN:
The villa was built between 1472 and 1480 for Bartolommeo Scala. It was a 'casini of delights' with a garden, a nursery and a a grove designed drawn to catch small birds (a ragnaia). The present garden was made in the eighteenth century. It has paths, shrubs, trees, an Ionic temple and a tepidarium. The garden was then used for botanical collections, including azaleas.


INFORMATIONS ABOUT GHERARDESCA'S GARDEN:
ADDRESS: Firenze, Borgo Pinti 99
TELEPHONE.: 055 212245 (Comune di Firenze)
OPEN: Private property (open to small groups by appointment)