Tuscany

Regione Toscana

Zone	Central Italy
Capital	Florence
President	Claudio Martini
Provinces	Arezzo Firenze Grosseto Livorno Lucca Massa-Carrara Pisa Pistoia Prato Siena
Municipalities	287
Area	23,000 km²
Population  - Total  - Density	3,600,000 163/km²
Map higlighting the location of Toscana in Italy

Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. It is often regarded as among the most beautiful parts of Italy.

Points of interest

Tuscany was the region in which the Italian Renaissance produced its first results. The unique artistic patrimony of this region includes architecture, painting and sculpture, collected in dozens of famous museums like the Uffizi in Florence and in situ in even quite small cities.

Tuscany is also known for its wines (most famous of which are Chianti, Morellino di Scansano and Brunello di Montalcino) and has 120 protected regions (nature reserves).

Notable tourist destinations in Tuscany include Florence, Pisa, Lucca, Maremma (in the Grosseto district), Crete Senesi, and (Siena). Though it is famous for its villas, Tuscany is currently promoting "agritourism" (Agriturismo), in which visitors stay on working farms.

History

See main article: History of Tuscany

Provinces of Tuscany

• Florence (Firenze), capital town of the region
• Siena
• Grosseto, principal town of Maremma
• Pistoia
• Arezzo
• Lucca
• Massa Carrara
• Livorno
• Pisa
• Prato

Other notable cities and towns in alphabetical order

• Abbadia San Salvatore
• Borgo San Lorenzo
• Calci
• Capalbio
• Castiglione della Pescaia
• Castiglion Fiorentino
• Certaldo
• Collodi
• Cortona
• Empoli
• Fiesole
• Follonica
• Fucecchio
• Montalcino
• Montecatini Terme
• Montepulciano
• Orbetello
• Pienza
• Piombino
• San Gimignano
• Settignano
• Vinci
• Volterra

Islands

• Elba
• Montecristo
• Giannutri
• Giglio
• Pianosa

Geographical data

Area: 22,992 km²

Population (2000): 3,536,392

Population density: 163/km²

Number of administrative areas: 278

Notable personalities born in Tuscany

• Dante Alighieri
• Lorenzo de Medici
• Michelangelo
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Girolamo Savonarola
• Niccolò Machiavelli
• Giovanni Boccaccio
• Francesco Petrarca
• Andrea del Verrocchio
• Baccio D'Agnolo
• Masaccio
• Giotto
• Beato Angelico
• Filippo Brunelleschi
• Donatello
• Pontormo
• Giorgio Vasari
• Piero della Francesca
• Rosso Fiorentino
• Marsilio Ficino
• Leon Battista Alberti
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini
• Lorenzo Ghiberti
• Benevenuto Cellini
• Santa Caterina da Siena
• Duccio di Buoninsegna
• Francesco Guicciardini
• Bernardino da Siena
• Luca della Robbia
• Andrea della Robbia
• Sandro Botticelli
• Niccolò Pisano
• Galileo Galilei
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Giacomo Puccini
• Giosuè Carducci
• Amedeo Modigliani
• Curzio Malaparte
• Carlo Collodi
• Antonio Meucci
• Vasco Pratolini
• Giuseppe Ungaretti
• Aldo Palazzeschi
• Pietro Mascagni
• Giovanni Gronchi
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