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The Boboli Gardens is a historic park in the city of Florence. Born as the garden of the Pitti Palace, it is also linked to Fort Belvedere, a military outpost for the safety of the king and his family. The garden, which annually hosts over 800,000 visitors, is one of the most important examples of Italian garden in the world and is a veritable outdoor museum, setting architectural and landscaping for the sculpture collection, which ranging from Roman antiquity to the nineteenth century. The gardens behind the Pitti Palace, residence of the Medici first, then the Lorraine and Savoy, were built between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries and occupying an area of 45,000 square meters. The garden has four entrances accessible to the public: the courtyard of Palazzo Pitti, from Fort Belvedere, Via Romana (the entrance of Annalena) and the Piazzale di Porta Romana, as well as another exit in Piazza Pitti.
The name "Boboli" may have arisen from the possessions of the family Borgoli, that were within the church of Santa Felicita the Oltrarno. Luca Pitti bought it as allotments in 1418, forty years before starting construction of the building that the took the name from his family. With the passage of the Medici property in 1549 for the purchase by Eleonora di Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de 'Medici, it began the beautification and expansion, which involved the garden. It was started by Nicholas Tribolo architect who ten years earlier had proudly worked on the gardens of the Villa Medici at Castello. The garden was opened
to the public for the first time, although with proper restrictions, during the reign of Peter Leopold of Lorraine.
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