Villa del Poggio Imperiale, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Entrance to the Villa del Poggio Imperiale, a neoclassical Villa Medicea in Arcetri, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The statue on the right plinth is Hercules holding the Celestial Globe, 1568, by Vicenzo de Rossi. Originally built in the 15th century, the villa was bought by Cosimo I de Medici in the 16th century. It was enlarged in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. It was the seat of the Educandato Statale della Santissima Annunziata 1865-2015. The villa forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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