Advantages: Stunning. Well worth visiting Disadvantages: Short of its former glories
...we both quite enjoy visiting gardens while on our travels, especially when the weather is nice. And when we were in Tuscany last year, the weather was very nice. But nice weather and a pretty garden would not, on their own, have driven us to visit VILLA GARZONI (actually, we were driven by me) in the stunning hill-top village of Collodi, 17km north-east of Lucca.
Sound familiar? Carlo Lorenzini, the author of Pinnochio, grew up here and used Collodi ... ...the ancient town, lie the Gardens of Villa Garzoni.
The Garzonis were a powerful family who originally hailed from Pescia but they sided with the Ghibellines and as a result, had their property confiscated around the 13th century. They then settled in Lucca and by the 17th century had risen in prominence to the extent that they were able to build a handsome villa in 1633. It's thought the same Marquis Romano di Alessandro Garzoni who had the villa ...
proxam 06.10.2006 (03.03.2008)
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