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Villa di Marignolle
Villa di Marignolle

The Villa di Marignolle is a Medici villa in the hills between Galluzzo and Soffiano, in the south-western suburbs of the comune of Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy. It passed into the hands of the Medici family after the Pucci Conspiracy, when it was confiscated from Lorenzo di Piero Ridolfi by Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.: 103  Francesco passed it to his illegitimate son Antonio.: 13 It is one of the many villas of the Medici family of which Giusto Utens painted lunettes in the Villa di Artimino between 1599 and 1602.: 116  It is not one of the fourteen sites which, since 2013, together make up the UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Medici Villas and Gardens in Tuscany.

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Villa di Marignolle
Via di Santa Maria a Marignolle, Florence Quartiere 3

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Villa Medicea di Marignolle

Via di Santa Maria a Marignolle
50143 Florence, Quartiere 3
Tuscany, Italy
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