Bobolino, Public garden in Florence, Italy.
Bobolino is a sloping public garden just outside Porta Romana in Florence, separate from the Boboli Gardens. It consists of grassy slopes, stairways and gravel squares, with benches built into flower beds, basins and artificial grottoes. Its terraces are crossed by the bends of the Colli avenues, especially viale Machiavelli and its side streets.
Bobolino is a public park laid out just outside Florence's Porta Romana, on sloping ground crossed by the bends of the Colli avenues, notably viale Machiavelli and its side streets. It is not part of the Boboli Gardens, but takes its name from that nearby garden. In its middle section stands Villa Cora, now a luxury hotel, where Empress Eugénie and the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky stayed.
The name Bobolino, "little Boboli", comes from the nearby Giardino di Boboli, of which this park is not a part. The garden is crossed by the bends of the Colli avenues, especially viale Machiavelli and its side streets, so walkers pass through it on the way up the hill.
The park lies just outside Porta Romana, and its sloping layout of grassy banks, stairways and gravel squares is crossed by the bends of viale Machiavelli and its side streets. Benches are built into the flower beds, and the lower part of the garden borders the municipal greenhouses.
The garden's name comes from the nearby Boboli Gardens, but the Bobolino is not part of them: it is a separate public park just outside Porta Romana. Its sloping grounds are crossed by the bends of the Colli avenues, especially viale Machiavelli and its side streets.
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