Villa Montegirone

Villa Montegirone is a manor estate in Fiesole, Florence, Tuscany. Villa Montegirone is situated nearby to the manor estate Villa Pezzuti, as well as near the square Piazza Sandro Pertini.

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Type: Manor estate
Description: villa in Fiesole, Italy
Also known as: “Villa Santini”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Florence War Cemetery (CWGC) and Villa Gamberaia.

Florence War Cemetery (CWGC)

Cemetery

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Florence War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War II located in Italy near Florence in the locality Girone-Compiobbi, close to the Arno river. Florence War Cemetery (CWGC) is situated 640 metres southeast of Villa Montegirone.

Villa Gamberaia

Garden

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Villa Gamberaia, built in the Tuscan style by the Florentine gentleman-merchant Zanobi Lapi in the early 1600s, is located on the hillside of Settignano, overlooking the city of Florence, Italy and the surrounding Arno Valley. Villa Gamberaia is situated 1 km northwest of Villa Montegirone.

San Martino a Terenzano

Church

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San Martino a Terenzano is a church, which is situated 740 metres north of Villa Montegirone.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Settignano and Vicchio di Rimaggio.

Settignano

Village

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Settignano is a frazione on a hillside northeast of Florence, Italy. The little borgo of Settignano carries a familiar name for having produced three sculptors of the Florentine Renaissance, Desiderio da Settignano and the Gamberini brothers, better known as Bernardo Rossellino and Antonio Rossellino.