Is there anything to see in the gardens in the winter(late Dec.)?<BR><BR>Has anyone here walked up to Piazzale Michelangelo? What's the best/easiest route?

To The Top as I will be there this Thursday and was questioning the gardens myself. Just checked the weather and it looks like rain for us this weekend in Florence.

I was there in mid-April one year and there wasn't much blooming yet. I would imagine it'd be pretty stark this time of year. You can walk to P. Michelangelo or take a bus. Cross the Ponte Vecchio, turn left, and walk past another bridge (or is it 2 bridges?), then head uphill on your right.

I was in Boboli Gardens in the summer and wasn't that impressed with it then. I was in Florence for a month so I had time to waste. I never recommend it for people going to Florence for a few days. Piazziale Michelangelo is well worth it. Once you get there I always suggest to keep walking up the hill past the first church up to the second which is San Miniato. Michelangelo hid in the tower there during one of the many uprisings in Florence.

Hi<BR> Since Piazzale Michelangelo is up a hill, you might wish to go up by bus and walk down.<BR><BR> You can find the bus routes at<BR>http://www.ataf.net/Default_EN.asp

Mille grazie! What great inside info on this board.

Take the route up the hill that leads past Galileo's house and accesses Fort Belvedere above the Boboli Gardens; after visiting the fort, continue on until you reach San Miniato. Enjoy the beautiful, small Romanesque church, and then take a short walk down the hill to Piazzale Michelangelo.

ChristmasinItaly + Holly:<BR><BR>Boboli is a Typical itlaian garden. oits attractiveness is not based on particularly luscious flowers but on the perfect open-air architecture that the architects tried to obrtain through space management. In most of these gardens (not only Boboli but also, for instance, Giardino della Guastalla in Milano) you will not find a great deal of flowers, but well-groomed and evenly divided spaces with fountains, pools, statues and mazes and often enough small buildings are visible in the middle of the garden. This is why, particulrly if you are intersted in architecture, you cn vell visit Boboli in winter too: an italian garden is almost as interesting under the snow as under the sun of summer. But do not expect it to be filled with flowers, neither in winter or in summer.