Tuscany
Tuscany (Italian: Toscana, pronounced [tosˈkaːna]) is a region in Italy. It haes an aurie o aboot 23,000 square kilometres (8,900 sq mi) an a population o aboot 3.75 million indwallers. The regional caipital is Florence (Firenze).
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| Kintra | Italy |
| Caipital | Florence |
| Govrenment | |
| • Preses | Enrico Rossi (PD) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 22993 km2 (8,878 sq mi) |
| Population (01-01-2011) | |
| • Total | 3,750,000 |
| • Density | 160/km2 (420/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Tuscan |
| Citizenship | |
| • Italian | 93% |
| • Albanie | 2% |
| • Romanie | 1% |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| GDP/ Nominal | € 106.1[2] billion (2008) |
| GDP per capita | € 28,500[3] (2008) |
| NUTS Region | ITC |
| Website | www.regione.toscana.it |
Tuscany is kent for its gorgeous landscapes, its rich airtistic legacy an its vast influence on heich cultur. Tuscany is widely regardit as the true birthplace o the Italian Renaissance, an haes been hame tae some o the maist influential fowk in the history o airts an science, sic as Petrarch, Dante, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Amerigo Vespucci, Luca Pacioli an Puccini. Due tae this, the region haes several museums (sic as the Uffizi, the Pitti Palace an the Chianciano Museum o Airt). Tuscany haes a unique culinary tradeetion, an is famous for its wines (maist famous o which are Chianti, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Morellino di Scansano an Brunello di Montalcino).
Sax Tuscan localities hae been designatit Warld Heritage Steids: the historic centre o Florence (1982), the historical centre o Siena (1995), the square o the Cathedral o Pisa (1987), the historical centre o San Gimignano (1990), the historical centre o Pienza (1996) an the Val d'Orcia (2004). Furthermair, Tuscany haes ower 120 protectit natur reserves. This maks Tuscany an its caipital ceety Florence vera popular tourist destinations, attractin millions o tourists ivery year. Florence itsel receives an average o 10 million tourists a year, placin the ceety as ane o the maist visitit in the warld (in 2007, the ceety became the warld's 46t maist visitit ceety, wi ower 1.715 million arrivals).[4]
Admeenistrative diveesions eedit
Tuscany is dividit intae ten provinces:
| Province | Aurie (km²) | Population | Density (inh./km²) |
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| Province o Arezzo | 3,232 | 345,547 | 106.9 |
| Province o Florence | 3,514 | 983,073 | 279.8 |
| Province o Grosseto | 4,504 | 225,142 | 50.0 |
| Province o Livorno | 1,218 | 340.387 | 279.5 |
| Province o Lucca | 1,773 | 389,495 | 219.7 |
| Province o Massa an Carrara | 1,157 | 203.449 | 175.8 |
| Province o Pisa | 2,448 | 409,251 | 167.2 |
| Province o Pistoia | 965 | 289,886 | 300.4 |
| Province o Prato | 365 | 246,307 | 674.8 |
| Province o Siena | 3,281 | 268,706 | 81.9 |
References eedit
- Barker, Graeme; Rasmussen, Tom (2000), The Etruscans, Malden, MA: Blackwell, ISBN 0-631-22038-0
- Jones, Emma (2005), Adventure Guide Tuscany & Umbria, Edison, NJ: Hunter, ISBN 1-58843-399-4
- ↑ "Statistiche demografiche ISTAT". Archived frae the original on 22 Februar 2021. Retrieved 10 Mairch 2010.
- ↑ http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&language=en&pcode=tgs00003&plugin=1
- ↑ EUROPA - Press Releases - Regional GDP per inhabitant in 2008 GDP per inhabitant ranged from 28% of the EU27 average in Severozapaden in Bulgaria to 343% in Inner London
- ↑ Caroline Bremner (11 October 2007). "Top 150 City Destinations: London Leads the Way". Euromonitor International. Archived frae the original on 9 Februar 2010. Retrieved 10 Mairch 2010.