{"id":25844,"date":"2019-01-16T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hotelvillacappugi.com\/medicean-villa-la-magia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T08:58:54","slug":"medicean-villa-la-magia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hotelvillacappugi.com\/en\/medicean-villa-la-magia\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicean Villa La Magia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <b>Quarrata<\/b>, in the province of Pistoia, there is <b>Villa La Magia<\/b>, a <b>Medicean<\/b><b> villa<\/b> built in the 1300s by a wealthy Pistoia family, the Panciatichi.<\/p>\n<p>In 1583 the Magia passed to the Medici family, who restructured it to adapt it to their tastes and needs, the project was entrusted to the court architect, <b>Bernardo Buontalenti<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Passing from family to family the villa was transformed and enriched.<br \/>\nIn the mid 1600s the <b>Attavanti<\/b> family put their hands on the garden, turning it into a beautiful <b>Italian garden<\/b> with citrus trees and flowers and had the interiors decorated with <b>stuccos and frescoes<\/b>.<br \/>\nA century later Villa La Magia was inherited by the <b>Ricasoli<\/b> family and then passed on to the <b>Amati<\/b> family.<\/p>\n<p>Giulio Giuseppe Amati created the <b>lemon orchard<\/b><b> <\/b>and set up the <b>romantic park<\/b>, rebuilt the neo-Gothic style <b>chapel<\/b> and, the <b>access to the villa<\/b> in neoclassical style.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000 the villa was purchased by the municipality of Quarrata and, after the last restoration completed in 2005, is used as a<b> villa for receptions<\/b>, <b>congresses<\/b> or <b>celebrations<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Around the villa, there is the <b>park<\/b>, crossed by several paths that make their way between cypresses, holm oaks and where there is an <b>artificial lake <\/b>created by the Amati family.<\/p>\n<p><b>The villa can be visited every third Sunday of the month with a compulsory reservation.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\"><span style=\"font-family: Open Sans, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Photo:<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Sailko\"><span style=\"color: #0000cc;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><u>Sailko<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Villa_la_magia,_giardino_17_limonaia.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000cc;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><u>Villa la magia, giardino 17 limonaia<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/legalcode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000cc;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\"><u>CC BY-SA 3.0<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><b> <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Quarrata, in the province of Pistoia, there is Villa La Magia, a Medicean villa built in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surroundings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>MEDICEAN VILLA LA MAGIA - Hotel Villa Cappugi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"hotelvillacappugi.com - Medicean Villa La Magia. 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