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Garden. The Villa Medici at Careggi is a patrician villa in the hills near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy . History. The villa was among the first [1] of a number of Medici villas, notable as the site of the Platonic Academy founded by Cosimo de' Medici, who died at the villa in 1464.
- c. 1325
- Italian Renaissance
- Regione Toscana
- Careggi
Visit the Medici villa of Careggi a few steps from the historic center of Florence. It was the favorite of Lorenzo the Magnificent and now a World Heritage Site.
- In The Beginning…
- Monarchs and Murder
- Grand Designs and Grander Gardens
The story of the Medici villas begins north of Florence in the Mugello, at the Villa di Cafaggiolo. The family’s roots lay in the area, and later this is where they would return and lie low when things got sticky in Florence. As a result, Cafaggiolo looks more like a castle than a villa, with fortifications and a defensive tower in the medieval sty...
Lorenzo also commissioned the architectural pinnacle of the Medici villas: the Villa di Poggio a Caiano. Star architect Giuliano da Sangallo got to work on its overall design, with arcades and an elaborate portico, in the 1480s. Lorenzo never lived to see it finished: his son Giovanni, who later became Pope Leo X, oversaw its completion around 30 y...
The Medici’s villa building boom did not die with Lorenzo and his Golden Age. These later villas date to the period when the family were “officially” elevated to the ruling class; when Tuscany became a dukedom and Cosimo I (descended from Cosimo il Vecchio’s younger brother, Lorenzo) became its first Grand Duke. Grand Duke Cosimo loved to hunt and ...
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The Medici Villa of Careggi After the villas of Cafaggiolo and Trebbio in Mugello, that of Careggi was the third country residence to be built by the Medici and to be redeveloped by Michelozzo. Situated on the hill of the same name, the residence has the predominant character of a rural villa-farm, whose closeness to the city allowed the Medici ...
The Republic of Florence ( Italian: Repubblica di Firenze ), known officially as the Florentine Republic (Italian: Repubblica Fiorentina, pronounced [reˈpubblika fjorenˈtiːna] ), was a medieval and early modern state that was centered on the Italian city of Florence in Tuscany, Italy.
- Florin (from 1252)
May 3, 2024 · Cosimo de’ Medici (born Sept. 27, 1389, Florence—died Aug. 1, 1464, Careggi, near Florence) was the founder of one of the main lines of the Medici family that ruled Florence from 1434 to 1537. The son of Giovanni di Bicci (1360–1429), Cosimo was initiated into affairs of high finance in the corridors of the Council of Constance, where he ...
Mar 13, 2019 · Born: January 1, 1449 in Florence, Republic of Florence (modern-day Italy) Died: April 8, 1492 at Villa Medici at Careggi, Republic of Florence; Spouse: Clarice Orsini (m. 1469)
