In conjunction with “Appointment in the garden”, the international event of the Italian Parks and Gardens Association, the Association “Napoleone e Elisa: da Parigi alla Toscana” presents THE DELIGHTS OF ELISA’s SUMMER. A return back to the glorious past of Villa Reale in the years when Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, Napoleon’s eldest sister and Princess of Lucca and Piombino, bought the Orsetti’s country villa in Marlia and had the gardens and the villa transformed into her royal summer residence.
On Sunday, 8th June it will be possible to relive the moments of summer 1810 when Elisa, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, spent the summer with a group of talented guests to keep her and her family company.
Meet Elisa, her husband Felice Baciocchi and their young daughter Elisa Napoleona, with numerous renowned historical re-enactors. Over 50 people from Italy and around the world, dressed in historically-informed Napoleonic attire from 1810.