Location: Florence Area < Tuscany < Italy
Nearest Airport:
Florence, 15 km at 15
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Nearest Ferry:
Viareggio at 70
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Nearest Train:
Firenze Santa Maria Novella at 9
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Nearest Motorway:
Firence Certosa at 2
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Car: necessary
The 'must see places' in Florence:
The Ponte Vecchio, Piazzale Michelangelo, Giardino di Boboli, the Duomo, Battistero, San Miniato al Monte, Cappelle Medicee, Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia, Giardino Torrigiani.
The nearest attraction to VILLA MELOGRANO is LA CERTOSA del GALLUZZO. La Certosa, both architecturally and artistically unique, this monastery commissioned in 1342 by Niccolò Acciaioli, viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples, was originally home to Carthusian monks. Open Hours: Summer: 9am-noon, 3pm-6pm, Winter: 9am-noon, 3pm-5pm.
Nearby, the historical town of IMPRUNETA is a world-famous for for manufacturing terracotta. The clay in the soil has been used for centuries to produce terracotta.
The name is connected with the legendary effigy of the Virgin of Impruneta, is of Latin derivation 'in prunetis' or 'in pinetis'. These rolling and tranquil hillsides have been inhabited since Etruscan times. During the Medieval period they became the fiefs of the Buondelmon