Villa La Magia
Component of Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany
Overview
Twelve villas and two gardens spread across the Tuscan landscape make up this site which bears testimony to the influence the Medici family exerted over modern European culture through its patronage of the arts. Built between the 15th and 17th centuries, they represent an innovative system of construction in harmony with nature and dedicated to leisure, the arts and knowledge. The villas embody an innovative form and function, a new type of princely residence that differed from both the farms owned by rich Florentines of the period and from the military might of baronial castles. The Medici villas form the first example of the connection between architecture, gardens, and the environment and became an enduring reference for princely residences throughout Italy and Europe. Their gardens and integration into the natural environment helped develop the appreciation of landscape characteristic Humanism and the Renaissance.
About Villa La Magia
Villa La Magia is a Medici villa in the comune of Quarrata, in the province of Pistoia, to the west of Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. It was built by the Panciatichi family in the fourteenth century, and was bought by Francesco I de' Medici in 1583 or 1584. It has been owned by the comune of Quarrata since 2000, and since 2013 has been one of the fourteen sites which together make up a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany.
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Details
- Countries
- Italy
- ISO Codes
- IT
- Coordinates
- 43.8517, 10.9728
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