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__FORCETOC__ The Parco delle Cascine (Cascine Park) is a monumental and historical park in the city of Florence. The park covers an area of 160 hectares (395 acres). It has the shape of a long and narrow stripe, on the right band of the Arno river. It's extended from the City centre of Florence until the confluence with the Mugnone stream. ==History== The building of the Park began in 1563, under the rule of Cosimo I de' Medici, as a farming and hunting estate of the Medici family, ruling the city of Florence since 1434. The very name of the Park derives from the ancient Italian word "cascio", meaning bovine livestock, mainly intended for the production of butter and cheese.〔http://parcodellecascine.comune.fi.it/informazioni/il_parco.html〕 Since the beginnings of its building, the maintenance of the park was particularly well cared by the Medicis. Rare and exotic plants were chosen for the park, also for scientific reasons. With the end of rule of the Medici in favour of the Habsburg-Lorraines, the park acquired a recreative function in the urban system, conserved until the present days. However, until the beginning of the 19th century, the park remained usually closed to the public, with the exception of some particular recurrence. At the end of the 18th century the park was enriched with buildings by the architect Giuseppe Manetti, such as the ''Palazzina Reale'' (nowadays location of the Agronomy faculty of the University of Florence), the ''Abbeveratoio del Quercione'' fountain, the pyramid-shaped ice house, the amphitheatre and the nautical plant of the ''Pavoniere''. The two neoclassical Pavoniere were originally built as ornamental peacock cages. A number of fountains were built at the time, perhaps the most famous is the Narcisus Fountain, from which the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley draw inspiration writing the ''Ode to the West Wind'', in 1820.〔(West Wind poem by Percy Shelley )〕 Giuseppe Manetti was also responsible for organising celebrations and receptions in the park, such as the celebration for the assignment of Ferdinand III of Tuscany, in July 1791. The Grand Duchy Pietro Leopoldo ordered the construction of a model farming estate, around the Palazzina Reale building. The park became public at the beginning of the 19th century with Elisa Baciocchi, which fostered a number of preservative interventions. The park was acquired by the Municipality of Florence in 1869, which committed the renovation of the park to the architect Felice Francolini. Sport clubs which regularly competed in the ''Quercione'' meadow were: Florence Football Club, Itala Foot Ball Club, Juventus Foot-Ball Club, Firenze FBC, Club Sportivo Firenze and PGF Libertas. However, in 1917 the municipality decided to forbid to any sport club to play football in the park. The last relevant monument built in the Cascine Park was the ''Monumento all'Indiano'' a monument realised by the English sculptor Fuller in honour of the young Indian (Maratha) prince His Highness Rajaram I, Maharaja of Kolhapur, who suddenly died while visiting Florence in 1865.〔 http://www.royalark.net/India/kolhap3.htm〕〔http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/room-service-the-st-regis-florence-9002867.html 〕 The amphitheatre was named in March 2015 after a wellknown son of Florence, Ernesto de Pascale, music journalist and bluesrock musician who died 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parco delle Cascine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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