La villa médicéenne de Poggio a Caiano fut construite sous les ordres de Laurent de Médicis dit Laurent le Magnifique et de ses héritiers selon les plans de Giuliano da Sangallo durant la Renaissance italienne. Elle est située sur la commune de Poggio a Caiano dans la province de Prato en Toscane.
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The Medici Villa of Poggio a Caiano, also called Ambra, is one of the most famous Medici villas and is located in Poggio a Caiano. Today it is state owned and it houses two museums: one of the historic apartments and the Museum of Still Life.
The villa is perhaps the best example of architecture commissioned by Lorenzo il Magnifico, in this case to Giuliano da Sangallo towards 1480. It is no coincidence that this is a private building, where there are elements that later modeled for the future developments of the type of villas: internal and external penetration through filters such as loggias, symmetrical distribution of environments around a central salon, dominant position in the landscape, conscious recovery of classical architectural elements.
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There is also a church of San Lorenzo in Carmignano near Foggia.
San Lorenzo is a romanesque-style, Roman Catholic rural parish church located on Via Montalbiolo #51 in the town of Carmignano, province of Prato, region of Tuscany, Italy.
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The Tumulus of Montefortini is an Etruscan tomb near Comeana, Tuscany, central Italy, which is believed to date from the 7th century BC.
The tumulus is an oval burial mound 80 metres long and 11 metres high, which houses two tombs. Excavations began in 1966 and the finds are displayed in the museum of Artimino.
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Paperino is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Prato, province of Prato. It is located about 6 km from the centre of Prato and 22 km from Florence.
The 1981 comedy film West of Paperino is named after this village.
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Cafaggio is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Prato, province of Prato.
Cafaggio is about 70 km from Prato.