Ville medicee toscane patrimonio Unesco

Sono 14 quelle in lizza per diventare Patrimonio dell'Umanità dell'Unesco nel 2013 . Sono le Ville costruite dalla Famiglia Medici tra il XV e il XVII secolo come luoghi di piacere, di svago, di controllo territoriale. Sono sommi esempi di architettura rinascimentale e barocca, conservano opere d'arte eccezionali, hanno giardini perfetti.

Twelve villas and two pleasure gardens spread across the Tuscan country side 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 rural 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 habitat, 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 develelop the appreciation of landscape characteristic Humanism and the Renaissance.