The Bardini Garden is a historical garden of Florence, in Oltrarno area. It covers a large hilly area on the slopes of Piazzale Michelangelo to the Arno, between Piazza dei Mozzi, Via de 'Bardi, Scarpuccia coast, the coast and the Via San Giorgio di Belvedere (with two entrances), for a total area of about 4 hectares.

The so-called hill of Montecuccoli, which extends the current park, since the Middle Ages belonged to the family of Mozzi and bordered their palace. Already in 1259 it is mentioned a walled garden adjacent to the back of the building (still far from the idea of the garden that developed during the Renaissance), while the highest area of the park was used for agriculture, with vineyards and other crops on some elementary terracing.

In 1309 after the collapse of family, possessions (homes buildings and land) were purchased by the City of Florence, only to return to the hands of the Mozzi family in 1591, who retained ownership until 1880. The current park is still larger land ancient Mozzi and includes what was a separate property, toward San Giorgio coast, where existed from the early seventeenth century the so-called Manadora villa, built by architect Francesco Manadori Gherardo Silvani. The two properties were gradually embellished with gardens, statues and other amenities, taking advantage of the panoramic vocation of places.

In the nineteenth century James Le Blanc was in possession of the villa and transformed the park into an English garden, with woods, meandering walkways, statues and fountains. From this period the Kaffeehaus with the grotto still existing, twinned with a similar structure in the part of their hubs.

At the beginning of the hubs they became the sole owners of the two estates, but undertook substantial modification work, keeping the distinctive character of each zone. In the course of the nineteenth century some reports demonstrate how the property incurring an inexorable decline, with a growing feeling of abandonment and with the poor condition of the hydraulic system in the upper zone. With the extinction of the family, in 1880 the principles Carolath Benten bought the property, enriching the gardens of some details according to the Victorian fashion.

In 1913 the complex of the Mozzi palace of Manadora villa, the baroque garden and English, as well as some farmland, are purchased by the antiquarian Stefano Bardini, who gave way to a series of great renewals and changes, in that which was the most intense season of the garden. He built an avenue to reach the villa and sacrificed the walled gardens of medieval structure that still existed, while the buildings on the coast of San Giorgio were unified in what will be called Villa Bardini.

At Stephen's death, the property passed to his son Ugo. With the death of Ugo Bardini, without heirs (1965), began a long bureaucratic process of inheritance, which ended only in 1996 thanks to the efforts of Antonio Paolucci, then Minister for Cultural Heritage, he did fulfill the conditions of the deceased who he had intended its properties to the city of Florence.

Severely damaged by decades of neglect, the garden was restored in depth since 2000, thanks to the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, through the Foundation monumental parks Bardini and Peyron. Lasted nearly five years, with the reintroduction of fruit trees, plants and other ornaments, restoration, which has also seen the care of statues and buildings, has allowed the recent reopening of the park, which, although it is not run by the Superintendent of museums of Florence, has been associated with the Boboli gardens, with a single ticket.