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Villa Guicciardini Corsi Salviati in Sesto Fiorentino. The oldest known human settlement in the area dates from the Mesolithic (c. 9,000 years ago). The Etruscan presence is known from the 7th century BC, but the town proper was created by the Romans as Sextus ab urbe lapis ("Sixth mile from the Town Milestone").
ISTAT Code Comune Population, 31.12.2010 48001: Bagno a Ripoli: 25,787 48002: Barberino di Mugello: 10,858 48004: Borgo San Lorenzo: 18,191 48005: Calenzano: 16,462
The Oltrarno (beyond the Arno) is a district of Florence, Italy. It is located south of the River Arno. It contains part of the historic centre of Florence and many notable sites such as the church Santo Spirito di Firenze, Palazzo Pitti, Belvedere, and Piazzale Michelangelo.
The metropolitan areas of Italy are statistical areas denoting a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories in the Italian republic. Since in Italy there is no unique definition of metropolitan area, below are given definition according to several sources.
The Ponte Vecchio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈponte ˈvɛkkjo]; [1] "Old Bridge") [2] is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno, in Florence, Italy.The only bridge in Florence spared from destruction during World War II, it is noted for the shops built along it; building shops on such bridges was once a common practice.
Location of Tuscany within Italy Provinces of Tuscany. The following is a list of the municipalities of Tuscany, Italy.[1]There are 273 municipalities in Tuscany (as of January 2019):
The Sieve's basin, which flows into the Arno immediately before Florence. The middle Valdarno, with the plain including Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Prato, and Pistoia. The lower Valdarno, with the valley of important tributaries such as the Pesa, Elsa, and Era and in which, after Pontedera, the Arno flows into the Ligurian Sea. The river has a ...
Coat of arms of Florence under the French Empire. Arno (French:) was a department of the First French Empire in present-day Italy.It was named after the Arno river.It was formed in 1808, when the Kingdom of Etruria (formerly the Grand Duchy of Tuscany) was annexed directly to France.