Tuscany

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Late Season - Christobel Kent (Penguin)

The Rough Guide to Florence and the Best of Tuscany (Rough Guide to Florence & the Best of Tuscany) - Tim Jepson - Jonathan Buckley - Rough Guides (Rough Guides)

"Time Out" Florence (Time Out Florence & The Best of Tuscany) - Time Out Guides Ltd (Time Out Group Ltd)

Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria - James Lasdun - Pia Davis (Penguin)

Vanilla Beans and Brodo: Real Life in the Hills of Tuscany - Isabella Dusi (Pocket Books)

Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy - Frances Mayes (Bantam Books)

Frommer's Tuscany and Umbria with Your Family: From Renaissance Architecture to Stunning Scenery (Frommers With Your Family Series) - Donald Strachan - Stephen Keeling (John Wiley & Sons)

Dominic (Lords of Satyr) (The Lords of Satyr) - Elizabeth Amber (Aphrodisia)

NICHOLAS - Elizabeth Amber (Kensington Aphrodisia)

The Most Beautiful Villages of Tuscany (The Most Beautiful . . .) - James Bentley - Hugh Palmer (Thames & Hudson)

Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria and Marche 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.

Tuscany was essentially the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, and its artistic heritage includes architecture, painting and sculpture, collected in dozens of museums, the best-known of which is the Uffizi in Florence and in situ in even quite small cities.

Tuscany is 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, Siena, Pisa, Lucca, Barga, the Maremma, the Crete Senesi, the Lunigiana and Garfagnana areas, and the island of Elba.

Economy

The region is noted for the production of wine, notably Chianti, one of the most famous wines in Italy. Also cattle (particularly the famous 'Fiorentina' steak) and the production of olive oil, principally in Lucca and the surrounding hills. Tourism is the economic backbone of the so-called 'Cities of Art' (Florence, Lucca, Pisa, Siena, San Gimignano), as well as on the coast and in the isles (Elba). Also of economic note is the quarrying of marble in Versilia, Garfagnana and in the Alpi Apuane.

Provinces of Tuscany

• Arezzo
• Florence (Firenze)
• Grosseto
• Livorno
• Lucca
• Massa-Carrara
• Pisa
• Pistoia
• Prato
• Siena

Landscapes

• Casentino
• Chianti
• Maremma
• Mugello
• Val di Chiana
• Garfagnana
• Versilia

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