The Florence villa that inspired Pinocchio author Carlo Collodi is for sale.
Want to buy the villa that inspired the author of Pinocchio? It will set you back £8.7million.
The Villa di Colonnata, in a suburb of Florence called Sesto Fiorentino, is a world away from the humble workshop where the carpenter Geppetto’s marionette is born in the book by Carlo Collodi. The 3,000-square-metre (32,000 square feet) mansion has seven acres of garden, including a lawn known as the ‘Field of Miracles’, where a gardener famously found a hoard of coins in the 19th century – a tale that was included in ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’. The Field of Miracles appears in Pinocchio as the place where a sly fox and cat persuade the gullible Pinocchio to bury his money, telling him that it will grow and multiply.
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