Rufina is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Metropolitan City of Florence
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in the
Italian
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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 ...
, located about east of
Florence
Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025.
Florence ...
.
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 ''comune ...
,
Londa,
Montemignaio
Montemignaio is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about east of Florence and about northwest of Arezzo.
Geography
Montemignaio borders the following municipalities: Castel San Niccol� ...
,
Pelago
Pelago is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italy, Italian region Tuscany, located about east of Florence. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,396 and an area of .All demographics and other stat ...
,
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-sur ...
.
Main sights
*Church of Santo Stefano, at
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* Achille Castiglioni (1918–2002), Italian architect and industrial designer
* Livio Castiglioni (1911–1979), Italian a ...
, 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 Italy in the Middle Ages, a ''pieve'' (, ; ; : ''pievi'') was a rural church with a baptistery, upon which other churches without baptisteries depended. ''Pieve'' is also an Italian and Corsican term signifying the medieval ecclesiastical/a ...
of San Bartolomeo at
Pomino
*Church of Santa Maria del Carmine ai
Fossi
*''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
Leopold II, , English: ''Leopold John Joseph Francis Ferdinand Charles''. (3 October 1797 – 29 January 1870) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859. He married twice; first to Maria Anna of Saxony, and after her death in 1832, to Mari ...
stayed in 1829.
References
External links
Official website
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