Londa is a municipality in the

Metropolitan City of Florence The Metropolitan City of Florence () is an administrative division called metropolitan city in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Florence. It replaced the province of Florence. It was first created by the reform of local a ...

in the central

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region

Tuscany Tuscany ( ; ) is a Regions of Italy, region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of 3,660,834 inhabitants as of 2025. The capital city is Florence. Tuscany is known for its landscapes, history, artistic legacy, and its in ...

Geography

The neighbouring communes are

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 ''comune ...

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-sur ...

Rufina Rufina is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about east of Florence. Rufina borders the following municipalities: Dicomano, Londa, Montemignaio, Pelago, Pontassieve, Pratovec ...

San Godenzo San Godenzo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about northeast of Florence, in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines. San Godenzo borders the following municipalities: Dicomano, Lo ...

and

Stia Piazza Tanucci at Stia. Stia is a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Pratovecchio Stia in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about east of Florence and about northwest of Arezzo. It was an independent commune until it ...

. The

toponym Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of ''wikt:toponym, toponyms'' (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage, and types. ''Toponym'' is the general term for ...

is first recorded in a document of 1028 as ''

Unda Unda or UNDA may refer to: * Unda (genus), a genus of Amoebozoa * Unda (plural "undae"), a term for an extraterrestrial dune field * Unda (organization), the International Catholic Association for Radio and Television which was merged with OCIC t ...

'', meaning "wave" and alluding to the torrent on which it is situated. The wave appears in the communal coat of arms.

References

Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Florence {{Florence-geo-stub