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Giardino Bardini does not behave like a single garden. It behaves like a hillside with multiple personalities, edited into one ticket. Start with the belvedere: Florence laid out as skyline logic, not postcard noise. Drop down and the tone shifts. A dragon’s tail becomes plumbing and myth at once, the Canale del Drago pulling water through the English-garden stretch like a sly line of motion. Elsewhere the theatre is quieter: terraces that feel agricultural, pockets of orchard character, then an olive grove where the city is still present but no longer dominant. The 2000–2005 restoration (reopened 2005) matters because it restores the sequence, not just the planting. The result is a garden that keeps changing its mind, and stays interesting because of it.