Giardino delle Rose

This guide to the Giardino delle Rose in Florence traces the hillside from a plain farm plot reshaped in 1865, when the city became capital of a newly unified Italy, through the decades gardener Attilio Pucci spent building its rose collection almost from nothing. It then follows a Belgian sculptor who fell for the same view over the rooftops, and the bronze figures scattered among the blooms after his death. Look for the man frozen mid-stride among the roses as you walk the terraces.