Rufina is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Metropolitan City of Florence
The Metropolitan City of Florence ( it, Città Metropolitana di Firenze) is an administrative division called Metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in the Tuscany region, Italy. Its capital is the city of Florence. It replaced the Provin ...
in the
Italian
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** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
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region
Tuscany
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, located about east of
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany Regions of Italy, region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilan ...
.
Rufina borders the following municipalities:
Dicomano
Dicomano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about northeast of Florence.
Dicomano borders the following municipalities: Londa, Rufina, San Godenzo
San Godenzo is a ''comun ...
,
Londa,
Montemignaio,
Pelago,
Pontassieve
Pontassieve is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about east of Florence, nearby Fiesole, at the confluence of the Arno and Sieve rivers.
History
The first rulers of the are ...
,
Pratovecchio Pratovecchio Stia is a ''comune'' in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany. It was formed by the merger of the two former ''comuni'' of Pratovecchio and Stia in 2014.
History
Dono di Paolo, father of the Florentine artist Paolo Uccello, was a barber-su ...
.
Main sights
*Church of Santo Stefano, at
Castiglioni Castiglioni is an Italian surname. People with this surname include:
* Giannino Castiglioni (1884–1971), Italian artist
* Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002), Italian architect and industrial designer
* Livio Castiglioni (1911–1979), Italian ar ...
, an architectural complex formed of several buildings including a church and belltower. The interior of the church is divided into a nave and two aisles covered with a trussed ceiling.
*Church of Santa Maria at
Falgano
*
Pieve
In the Middle Ages, a pieve (, ; la, plebe, link=no; plural ''pievi'') was a rural church with a baptistery, upon which other churches without baptisteries depended.
The Italian word ''pieve'' is descended from Latin ''plebs'' which, after t ...
of San Bartolomeo at
Pomino
*Church of Santa Maria del Carmine ai
Fossi
Fossi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Francesco Fossi (born 1988), Italian rower
* Raffaello Fossi (1928–1962), Italian painter
See also
* Dossi
*Rossi (surname)
Rossi () is an Italian surname, said to be the most c ...
*''Villa di Poggio Reale'', a 16th-century residence which now hosts events and conferences. A cypress-lined boulevard leads up to the facade of Villa Poggio Reale where
Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany stayed in 1829.
References
External links
Official website
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