Villa Corsini a Castello

The Villa Corsini or 'I Rinieri' (the name of the owners of the sixteenth century), located on the outskirts of the city westward in Castello, was purchased in 1697 for its proximity to the Villa Medici Petraia by the director of the Grand Duke Cosimo III, Filippo Corsini, who entrusted the reconstruction Foggini Giovan Battista (1652-1725), architect and sculptor Grand Ducal, as well as director of the manufactures of the court. Became a member in 2006 of the Superintendence for the State Museums of Florence, the villa houses from the late eighties a repository of archaeological pieces of the Archaeological Superintendence of Tuscany from the former Topographical Museum of Central Etruria destroyed by the flood in 1966. the property has been the subject of a restoration campaign directed to the restoration of the courtyard, the hall and the long gallery upstairs, which are in place now part of the archaeological collection