Parks in Florence
2 parks to discover with Bad Historian in Florence.
Boboli Gardens
Behind the palace, the ground rises, and the whole hillside opens into the Boboli Gardens — avenues of clipped cypress, terraces cut into the slope, fountains, grottoes, statues tucked into every hedge, an amphitheater carved right into…
Gucci Garden — Palazzo della Mercanzia
On the corner of Piazza della Signoria, tucked beside the giants and the fountain, there's an older, quieter palace with a row of coats of arms across its front.
Florence Audio Experiences
Visit these parks and more on a self-guided audio experience.
Blood on the Marble
A pope's murder plot at Mass, a preacher burned where he'd burned the city's art, a poet sentenced to the flames. Florence's beauty had a body count — and every crime is in the records.
Florence Dressed the World
The city that invented fashion twice — the medieval wool and silk guilds that funded the Renaissance, then Ferragamo, Gucci, Pucci, and the 1951 show that made 'Made in Italy.' Two inventions, six centuries apart, on the same small grid of streets.
Florence in a Mile
The Duomo, the David, the bridge — a straight walk through the heart of Florence, with the one insane true story behind every icon. Where the Renaissance started, and why any of it is still here.
How to Build the Impossible
A reject block of marble became the David; a dome that shouldn't stand still holds; a 1401 contest built a genius by making him lose. A physics heist across the Renaissance, on foot, in about a mile.
The Family That Owned Florence
The Medici started as bankers and ended up owning a republic, a papacy, and immortality — four popes, two queens of France, a secret half-mile skybridge over the whole city. And the last of them gave every masterpiece to Florence forever, on one condition: none of it could ever leave.
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