Pomarance is a ''
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 ...
'' (municipality) in the
Province of Pisa
The province of Pisa ( it, provincia di Pisa) is a province in the Tuscany region of central Italy. Its capital is the city of Pisa. With an area of and a total population of 421,642 (), it is the second most populous and fifth largest province ...
in the
Italian region
Tuscany
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, located about southwest of
Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico ...
and about 60 km southeast of
Pisa
Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the ...
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Pomarance borders the following municipalities:
Casole d'Elsa
Casole d'Elsa �kaːzoleis a '' comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about west of Siena.
Main sights
The church of ''San Niccolò'', of Romanesque origin ...
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Castelnuovo di Val di Cecina,
Montecatini Val di Cecina
Montecatini Val di Cecina is a small hilltown and ''comune'' in the province of Pisa in Tuscany (central Italy). Located approximatively south of Pisa, the medieval town sits on the Poggio la Croce hill overlooking the Cecina Valley and the ...
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Monterotondo Marittimo
Monterotondo Marittimo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Grosseto in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about northwest of Grosseto, near the Colline Metallifere.
''Frazioni''
The municipality i ...
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Monteverdi Marittimo
Monteverdi Marittimo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pisa in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about southeast of Pisa
Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, stra ...
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Radicondoli
Radicondoli is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany, located about southwest of Florence and about southwest of Siena.
Main sights
Churches in Radicondoli include the ''Collegiata dei Santi Simon ...
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Volterra
Volterra (; Latin: ''Volaterrae'') is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods.
History
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Pomarance was the hometown of three painters called
Pomarancio after it.
From 1968 to 1992 there was at San Dalmazio the static inverter plant of
HVDC Italy–Corsica–Sardinia. Today, there is a solar park.
References
External links
Official website
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