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In 1459, Pope Pius II decided to transform his hometown of Pienza according to Renaissance Humanist ideas of urban design. The project was supervised by the architect Bernardo Rossellino who built new squares, churches, and palaces. Pienza was later a model for urban development in other Italian and European cities. [27]
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In Northern and Central Italy, it was the Etruscans who led the way in architecture in that time. Etruscan buildings were made from brick and wood, thus few Etruscan architectural sites are now in evidence in Italy, [6] with the exception of a few in Volterra, Tuscany and Perugia, Umbria. The Etruscans built temples, fora, public streets ...
Villa Le Balze is a garden villa in Fiesole, a comune of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany in central Italy.The villa was commissioned and built by Charles Augustus Strong in 1913, where he spent much of his life.
Gardens of the Villa Aldobrandini (1598). The Italian Renaissance garden was a new style of garden which emerged in the late 15th century at villas in Rome and Florence, inspired by classical ideals of order and beauty, and intended for the pleasure of the view of the garden and the landscape beyond, for contemplation, and for the enjoyment of the sights, sounds and smells of the garden itself.
Garden of Villa d'Este Statues in the gardens of the Palace of Caserta. Italian garden (or giardino all'italiana, Italian pronunciation: [dʒarˈdiːno allitaˈljaːna]) typically refers to a style of gardens, wherever located, reflecting a number of large Italian Renaissance gardens which have survived in something like their original form.
Vinci (English: / ˈ v ɪ n tʃ i / VIN-chee, Italian:) [3] is a comune of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany. [4] The birthplace of Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci lies just outside the town.