A cura di Mario Bencivenni e Massimo de Vico Fallani: I Giardini di Firenze. Volume 6: Comuni della Cintura di Firenze (Comune de Fiesolam Vaglia, San Oiero a Sieve, Barberino di Mugello, Borgo San Lorenzo, Vcchio, Dicomano, Sesto Fiorentino, Calenzano, Scandicci, Signa, Capraia e Limite, Montespertoli, San Casciano in Val de Pesa, Greve, Reggello, Rignano sull'Arno, Pontassieve, Bagno a Ripoli et

In the final chapter of his monumental work, Angiolo Pucci, as an expert guide, indeed a true priest of the cultus hortorum, makes us discover how over the centuries the hilly landscape of the Florentine countryside has been embellished with gardens and parks. And again he explains the complex interweaving that connects the utility gardens of the parish churches, the crops of the vineyards and olive groves, the woods to the gardens of delight and the parks with which the ancient and new Florentine aristocrats have embellished and made famous the their suburban homes. Five hundred cases are described here: from Bagno a Ripoli to Capraia and Limite, from Vallombrosa, from Mugello and from Val di Sieve to Val d’Elsa and Chianti. The volume thus constitutes a precious viaticum to get to know and rediscover the 'green' crown that surrounds Florence.