The garden around the villa, once owned by the Buonvisi family, and the so-called “dell’Orologio” building took on a new baroque-style faciesin the late 17th century. Main attractions are: a grotto/theatre of stone and calcareous concretions, with a semicircular basin in front of it, which partitions off the space behind the palazzo; a fishpond, a rectangular basin surrounded by high box and yew hedges, ending in Leda’s nymphaeum, with figures representing the Arnoand the Serchiorivers; a lemon garden, housing more than 200 potted citrus plants; and a famous open-air theatre with three terracotta statues of Colombina, Pantalone and Balanzone, in tribute to the Commedia dell’Arte. In the early 19th century, Elisa Baciocchi – Princess of Lucca and Piombino, and Napoleon’s sister – purchased and enlarged the property by incorporating the Bishop’s villa. She revamped the estate with an august, neoclassical look, and a 17th-century highlight garden, a vast English-style park. Irregular lawns and now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t views alternate to create a varied scene that, lower down, ends with a lake surrounded by centuries-old specimens of Liriodendron tulipifera, the tulip tree. Further changes were made in the 1920s, when French landscape architect Jacques Gréber created a Deco garden for the Pecci Blunt family. This proved to be the final precious piece of a wonderous puzzle: from the majestic romantic park to the refined Islamic-inspired water garden and its sophisticated colour combinations, running from purple bougainvillea to gold-mosaiced channels.