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The tourist area leading to Florence obviously has in the chief town such an important attraction pole, that it is difficult to highlight the interesting attractions of the surrounding territory, even though they are numerous. However, in the environs of Florence it is possible to follow infinite routes with very articulated subjects and always very high contents regarding cultural, environmental and naturalistic values. From the cultural and artistic point of view, besides the various Etruscan and Roman remains, works of Beato Angelico, Della Robbia, Botticelli, Benozzo Gozzoli, Filippo Lippi, Donatello, Rossellino, Mino da Fiesole, etc. can be found everywhere in the churches and in the small museums of minor towns. Examples of great architecture of Michelozzo, Giuliano da Sangallo, Leon Battista Alberti are also very frequent. Many places around Florence are known because here were born or lived famous people: Giotto and Beato Angelico were born in Vicchio del Mugello, Boccaccio was born in Certaldo, in Vinci there are Leonardo native house and museum, in Incisa Valdarno the father's house of Petrarca, the humanist and philosopher Marsilio Ficino was born in Figline, in Albergaccio di S.Andrea in Percussina Machiavelli wrote "Il Principe". Another subject can be represented by the Medicean Villas and their gardens; as far as parks are concerned, we remind of the one of Villa Demidoff in Pratolino with the giant statue of the Apennines of Giambologna. Numerous places keep old valuable handcraft traditions: in Montelupo ceramics and glass, in Impruneta "Terracotta", in Scarperia forged iron. Another immutable reference bound to Tuscany and Florence, as well as her territory, is the prestigious Chianti area with its typical hilly landscape, where the vineyard geometries with the different orientation of the perfectly aligned rows, establish always different effects of colour and brightness. Olive-groves alternate to vineyards and, here and there, rows of cypresses, castles, farmhouses, old parish churches, villas and gardens. In the most famous centers, the noblest product of this land is celebrated every year with important manifestations: the Chianti Classico. As regards the landscape and environmental aspects that characterize the whole Florentine area, an outline should be made of the mountain areas: Vallombrosa, surrounded by secular fir-woods, 958 m high and Consuma about 1.000 m high on the arterial road SS n. 70 of the Casentinese.

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