NYU Florence is quite literally a paradise. In 1994, the University inherited Villa La Pietra from the Acton family, the largest gift any U.S. university had ever received from another country. The campus consists of five villas, sits on almost 60 acres of land, and boasts gardens and landscapes that people from all over the world paint, write about, and hope to visit. This was my home. The pictures below are just a modicum of what was my backyard.
