1600 Florence Villa Villa Medici di Montevettolini with Gardens & Hunting

Villa Medici di Montevettolini by Giusto Utens (Flemish artist, 1558-1609) who painted a series of 14 glasses of villas & their gardens near Florence.

This villa sitting on a high hill on the west slopes of Monte Albano, was built in 1595 by Grand Duke after-Ferdinando I. It sat at the edge of Barco Reale, a huge walled hunting reserve stretched from Poggio a Caino to include the whole of Monte Albano. It was a prime hunting destination. The Villa appears to have 2 walled vegetable gardens, orchards, and in the rear is a wide terraced garden with geometric parterres.