This is a hop, a skip and a jump from Florence, and it's the huge park of a Medici Villa, which doesn't exist anymore.
The stables were later transformed in a Villa in its own right by the Demidoff family.
The Giant of the Appennines, a colossal statue overlooking a pond
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This statue is on the back of the Giant
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Russian swirliness, kinda appropriate since the Demidoffs were actually Russian.
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Finely crafted marble decorations
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Pinecones
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An intense gaze, that the years of exposure haven't managed to water down.
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