Villa del Poggio Imperiale is a predominantly neoclassical former grand ducal villa in Arcetri, just south of Florence in Tuscany, Italy. It began as a villa of the Baroncelli family of Florence before being seized by the Medici, becoming home to a Medici princess and later a lavish retreat for a Grand Duchess with imperial ambitions. It was given to Napoleon's sister, reclaimed by the hereditary rulers of Tuscany, and eventually converted into a prestigious girls' school, having been rebuilt and redesigned many times over its long history at the center of Italy's turbulent past. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Villa del Poggio Imperiale (English: Villa of the Imperial Hill) is a predominantly neoclassical former grand ducal villa in Arcetri, just to the south of Florence in Tuscany, central Italy.
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