Sambuca Pistoiese is a town and ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...
''of the
Province of Pistoia
The province of Pistoia ( it, provincia di Pistoia) is a province in the Tuscany region of central Italy. Its capital is the city of Pistoia and the province is landlocked. It has an area of and a total population of 291,788 inhabitants (as of 2 ...
in the
Italian
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region of
Tuscany
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. The comune is in fact constituted by several different villages (''frazioni''), the most important of which are
Pàvana
Sambuca Pistoiese is a town and ''comune ''of the Province of Pistoia in the Italian region of Tuscany. The comune is in fact constituted by several different villages (''frazioni''), the most important of which are Pàvana at and Treppio ...
at and
Treppio at , along the valley of the
Limentra di Sambuca
The Limentra di Sambuca (also: ''Limentra occidentale'') is a mountain river in Italy, a right tributary of the Reno. It rises from Monte la Croce in the Apennine Mountains, elevation about , and passes through Sambuca Pistoiese. It has a length of ...
and the
Limentra orientale
The Limentra orientale (also: ''Limentra di Treppio'') is a mountain river in Italy, a right tributary of the Reno. It rises from Monte la Croce in the Apennine Mountains. It enters the Metropolitan City of Bologna near Lentula and Treppio. Near ...
, respectively. The nearest railway station is that of
Ponte della Venturina
Granaglione is a town in the ''comune'' of Alto Reno Terme, in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, central Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is locat ...
, from Pàvana.
Twin towns
Sambuca Pistoiese is
twinned with:
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Amgala
Amgala ( ar, أمگالة; ber, ⴰⵎⴳⴰⵍⴰ) is an oasis in Western Sahara. It is located between Tifariti and Smara, outside the Moroccan Wall in the area controlled by the Polisario.
Western Sahara War
Amgala was the scene of severa ...
, Western Sahara
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Cities and towns in Tuscany