Tuscany (Italian: Tuscany, elp. / 'To'skana /) is a region of Italy.
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Tuscany is located in central Italy - more precisely in its northwestern part.
To the west, is the Tyrrhenian sea, with several islets that are now part of a marine national park. The coast is mostly sandy.
To the north, are the northern Apennines, with mountains up to about 2000m, very steep in the Apuan Alps, milder in other places. Another important mountain (ca. 1700m) is in southern Tuscany: it is called Amiato (it. Amiata, elp. / a'mjata /) and is an inactive volcano whose glorious time occurred 300 thousand years ago.
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Inside, between the mountains, the sea and the eastern border, are mostly hills. There is to be found the best known landscape of Tuscany, t.e. successions of gentle hills, usually cultivated with vineyards, olive groves, fruit trees, vegetable gardens and so on. Here and there you can see the slender, dark forms of cypresses, which in Tuscany are widely used as ornamental trees. And here and there you can see old, big houses, alone or in pairs, in threes, often at the top of a hill.
There are also, of course, towns and cities, and most of them contain medieval monuments, whether churches, castles or mansions. Some are very famous for the abundance of such monuments: Florence, Siena, Pisa, etc.
