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Video in Italian | A lush island of roses and orange blossoms around the Fountain by Giambologna
Even the Boboli Garden has its Ocean... A lush island of roses and orange blossoms, on which stands the Fountain by Giambologna, a sculptural group dominated by Neptune and other river gods. They are the Nile, the Ganges and the Euphrates, the great rivers of antiquity that symbolically pour their waters into the large basin of the island that depicts the Ocean. A sumptuous shelter for centuries-old roses with odd names and inebriating scents
Today the iron gate of the Basin of the Island of the Boboli Gardens opens to us: a place where roses never fade...
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