Villa Le Balze - Gardens

Villa Le Balze - Gardens is a museum in Fiesole, Florence, Tuscany. Villa Le Balze - Gardens is situated nearby to the library Biblioteca della Georgetown University, as well as near San Domenico cemetery.

Type: Museum
Description: museal institution in Tuscany
Also known as: “Giardini di Villa Le Balze A Fiesole”
Address: Fiesole

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Villa Medici and Villa Sparta.

Villa Medici

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The Villa Medici is a patrician villa in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy, the fourth oldest of the villas built for the Medici family. It was built between 1451 and 1457. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed as Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany. Villa Medici is situated 280 metres northeast of Villa Le Balze - Gardens.

Villa Sparta

Manor estate

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Villa Sparta is a manor estate, which is situated 280 metres southeast of Villa Le Balze - Gardens.

convent of San Domenico

Church

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The Convent of San Domenico is a Dominican convent in Fiesole, Italy, situated between the hill of Fiesole and the suburbs of Florence. It was founded in 1406 and completed in 1435 on the initiative of Giovanni Dominici and the bishop of Fiesole, Jacopo Altoviti, both of them friars at the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. convent of San Domenico is situated 270 metres south of Villa Le Balze - Gardens.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Monterinaldi and Maiano.

Monterinaldi

Locality

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Monterinaldi is a locality.

Maiano

Hamlet

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Maiano is small hilltop locality, now part of Fiesole, in Tuscany. The Chiesa di San Martino was founded there in the eleventh century and subsequently restored in the fifteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.