Prato

Once the core of the mighty Roman Empire, and the cradle of the Renaissance, it is also home to the greatest number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the world, including high art and monuments. Italy is famous for its delicious cuisine, it's trendy fashions, luxury sports cars and motorcycles, diverse regional cultures and dialects, as well as for its various sceneries from the seas to the Alps and Apennines, all reasons why it got nickcoded Il Bel Paese (the Beautiful Country). One of the great things about Italy is that its long thin shape means that when you get fed up with sightseeing you are often a relatively short distance from a beach. In many of the more popular areas, large sections of beach are reserved as paid beaches. Italy is full of differents cultures you can see: Etruscan Italy, The Greek influence, Roman ruins, Christian Italy, The Byzantine cities and The Renaissance.

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With this itinerary it is  possible to get in touch with the atmosphere of the Medici period and enjoy an authentic green lung for the city, the Cascine di Tavola park, that was once part of the farming estate of the Medici Villa in Poggio a Caiano. The Medici villas are Unesco World Heritage. Emblematic sites that transmit spiritual values. The visit combines art and nature.  The villas and gardens represent a country buildings original system devoted to the pleasures, the arts and knowledge, where to experience  a real aesthetic sensitivity of the landscape, that has been a feature of Humanism and Italian Renaissance.  Well trained cyclists can do the itinerary also by bike.

The great Medici's Villas

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