nce Grand Hotel Villa Cora - Italy It's hard to find a Florentine villa more aristocratic than this one. Built in the 19th century just steps from the Boboli Gardens, it was once home to Napoleon III's widow, Empress Eugenie, and since being transformed into a luxury hotel it has welcomed visiting European mona

ts and landscapes. What were once two dimensional, trivial, beside-the-point, scattered copses of trees and apparently casual arrays of plant life in the Boboli Gardens behind the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, became the grandly structured, botanical wonder of increased dimension, communicating awe filed new perceptions