Villa La Magia
| Villa La Magia | |
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| General information | |
| Address | via Vecchia Fiorentina 63 |
| Town or city | Quarrata |
| Country | Italy |
| Coordinates | 43°51′06″N 10°58′21″E / 43.8516°N 10.9726°E |
| Construction started | fourteenth century |
| Owner | comune of Quarrata |
| Website | |
| villalamagia | |
Villa La Magia is a Medici villa in the comune of Quarrata, in the province of Pistoia, to the west of Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy. It was built by the Panciatichi family in the fourteenth century, and was bought by Francesco I de' Medici in 1583[1] or 1584.[2] It has been owned by the comune of Quarrata since 2000,[1] and since 2013 has been one of the fourteen sites which together make up a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Jump up to: a b La storia (in Italian). Comune di Quarrata. Accessed June 2017.
- ^ Villa La Magia (in Italian). Regione Toscana. Accessed June 2017.
- ^ Ville e giardini medicei in Toscana nella lista del patrimonio mondiale dell'UNESCO: Decisione della 37a sessione del Comitato del Patrimonio Mondiale riunita a Phnom Penh (Cambogia) dal 17 al 27 giugno 2013 (in Italian). Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo. Accessed June 2017. [dead link]
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