Villa Peyron di Fontelucente, Palazzo museum in Fiesole, Italy.

Villa Peyron di Fontelucente is a historic residence in the hills of Fiesole with an expansive Italian garden that rises across multiple terraces overlooking Florence. The property includes boxwood parterres, sculptures, and a water system fed by a natural spring.

The villa likely rose on Etruscan ruins, with cyclopean walls still visible in the park and traces in the cellars. It took its present form through the work of architect Giovannozzi in the early 1900s. Angelo Peyron then Paolo Peyron added terraces, the lake and the monument above it; statues destroyed in the last war were replaced with pieces from Venetian villas.

The name Fontelucente comes from the 16th-century spring above the villa that still feeds the garden's fountains by gravity. The statues now in the garden replace those destroyed in the last war and were brought from villas on the Brenta, near Venice.

Visits require advance reservation and are better suited to group arrangements or guided tours by contacting the administration beforehand. Access to the terraces and garden areas is on foot, so comfortable shoes are recommended.

The water flow still uses the original conduit system from the 16th century that carries water from the spring to fountains and the lake. This functioning system is a rare example of how early engineering remains operational today.