The Tuscan countryside is scattered with historical villas , real monuments the most important Tuscan families commissioned in the past as holiday residences, where to relax far from the chaotic city life.

The Medici family inaugurated the tradition with the villa in Poggio a Caiano, the first of 18 country residences all over Tuscany. The villas had a double function: not only were they places where the members of the family could relax, they were also places where to receive the most prestigious guests.

The buildings were therefore decorated with important works of art and had big parks in which fountains, plays of water and statues aimed at impressing the guests and celebrating the owners` power.

Many of these villas are now open to the public and represent a unique occasion for experiencing how the most important Tuscan aristocratic families lived in the past centuries.