The Boboli Gardens is a historic park in the city of Florence. Born as the grand ducal garden of Palazzo Pitti, it is also connected to the Forte di Belvedere, a military outpost for the safety of the sovereign and his family. The garden, which welcomes over 800,000 visitors every year, is one of the most important examples of Italian garden in the world and is a real open-air museum, due to the architectural-landscape setting and the collection of sculptures, which ranging from Roman antiquity to the 20th century.