The Varramista Gardens are located in Tuscany

Tuscany

Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....

 and cover over 400 hectares of parkland. The entrance consists of an oak tree avenue which leads to an Italian style garden designed by Bartolomeo Ammannati. Other notable features of the estate include topiaried

Topiary

Topiary is the horticultural practice of training live perennial plants, by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, perhaps geometric or fanciful; and the term also refers to plants which have been shaped in this way. It can be...

 boxwood trees, a bay tree tunnel, an ornamental lake and a wood.

Villa Varramista

The Villa Varramista was built by Bartolomeo Ammannati between 1580 and 1592. Notable former residents include Gino Capponi

Gino Capponi

Marquis Gino Capponi was an Italian statesman and historian.The Capponi family is one of the most illustrious Florentine houses, and is mentioned as early as 1250; it acquired great wealth as a mercantile and banking firm, and many of its members distinguished themselves in the service of the...

 and Enrico Piaggio

Enrico Piaggio

-Life:Piaggio was born in Pegli, which at that the time was an independent municipality. He graduated with a degree in Economics from University of Genoa in 1927. and would later receive an honorary degree in engineering from the University of Pisa, in 1951....

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