The Villa Schifanoia is a historic property that includes an aristocratic mansion and garden in Florence, Tuscany, central Italy, and which has been used as an academic facility by the European University Institute since the late 1980s. It lies near the boundary with the Province of Florence, close to the nearby city of Fiesole.
Main façade fronting the garden
The villa's Italian garden
View from the garden
Streetside façade
Fiesole is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany, on a scenic height above Florence, 5 km northeast of that city. It has structures dating to Etruscan and Roman times.
Aerial view of Piazza Mino, the main square of Fiesole
Excavation of the late-fourth-century BC Etruscan temple in Fiesole that later was used by the Romans
Partial restoration of one of the Roman structures in Fiesole
A fourteenth-century depiction from the Nuova Cronica showing the sacking of Fiesole in 1010, Chig.L.VIII.296 49v