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Games Room, Villa La Petraia, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Sala dei Giochi or Games Room, furnished by the Lorraines, with a large billiards table added in 1865 by Vittorio Emanuele II, in the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. On the walls are 17th century Florentine paintings. The villa was bought by Cosimo I de Medici in the 16th century and his son Ferdinand carried out remodelling on the building with architect Bernardo Buontalenti, 1531-1608. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Sala dei Giochi or Games Room, furnished by the Lorraines, with a large billiards table added in 1865 by Vittorio Emanuele II, in the Villa La Petraia, a 14th century Villa Medicea at Castello, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. On the walls are 17th century Florentine paintings. The villa was bought by Cosimo I de Medici in the 16th century and his son Ferdinand carried out remodelling on the building with architect Bernardo Buontalenti, 1531-1608. The villa is now a museum and forms part of the Medici UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen