Villa di Lilliano, Renaissance villa in Bagno a Ripoli, Italy.
Villa di Lilliano is a Renaissance residence in Bagno a Ripoli featuring symmetrical floor plans, classical stone facades, and formal garden layouts. The buildings display characteristic architectural elements of the period across the entire estate.
Lilliano began as an 11th-century watchtower and passed through the Giannellini, Guiducci (1480) and Capponi families. On 15 July 1646 Grand Duke Ferdinando II bought the "Palazzo della Fattoria" to enlarge the Lappeggi estate. In 1667 Cosimo III gave it to his brother Cardinal Francesco Maria de' Medici, who had architect Anton Maria Ferri remodel it into its present form.
The villa is the seat of the Malenchini wine and oil company, and its cellars and orciaia below the building hold old jars from the furnaces of Impruneta and Belmonte. The garden's lemon house and box-hedged geometric beds with lemon pots in warm months show the estate's horticultural use.
The villa is not open to the public: it is the seat of the Malenchini wine and oil estate. Access is therefore only possible by contacting the company directly, and there are no scheduled guided tours of the interiors or the garden.
The villa is not open to the public: it is the seat of the Malenchini wine and oil estate. Beneath the building lie the cellar and the orciaia, where old jars from the kilns of Impruneta and Belmonte are kept.
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