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Guide Italia - Toscana
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The Province of Florence is a province of 990,400 inhabitants of Tuscany. It is bordered to the north and east by the Emilia-Romagna (province of Bologna, Ravenna and Forlì-Cesena), south-east with the Province of Arezzo, on the south by the Province of Siena, on the west by the provinces of Pisa, Lucca , Pistoia and Prato.
 
History

The province derives from the Grand Ducal prefecture set up in 1848, which in turn included the oldest part of the Florentine domains. With the unification of Italy was created in 1860, the compartment substantially superimposed on the Florentine Grand Ducal prefecture. Chaired by Louis William Cambray-Digny that will keep the position until 1906. In 1865, with the approval of provincial and municipal law (law of March 20, 1865, No 2248), were called the provinces, governed by an elected provincial council but chaired by the prefect appointed by the King.

Under Law No. 30 December 1888 5865 the Council shall elect its chairman, Paul Onorato Vigliotti was succeeded in 1919 Gismondo Gualtierotti Morelli. Following the rise of the fascist regime in 1922, the provincial deputation and the council shall be dissolved replaced by a special committee. A period of spatial separations.

In 1923, the district is the posting of Rocca San Casciano, the so-called "Tuscan Romagna" (municipalities of Bagno di Romagna, Dovadola Galeata Modigliana, Portico e San Benedetto, Premilcuore, Rocca San Casciano, Santa Sofia, Sorbo, Castrocaro and Land of the Sun, Tredegar and Verghereto) In 1925 the transfer to the province of Pisa the town of Castelfranco di Sotto, Montopoli in Val d'Arno, San Miniato, Santa Croce and Santa Maria a Monte, In 1927, the posting of Common Agliana, Cutigliano, Lamporecchio, Larchwood, Marliana, Montale, Pistoia, Piteglio, San Marco Pistoia, Pistoia Serravalle and Tizzana (Quarrata today) that went on to form the province of Pistoia;

The fascist regime promulgated the municipal and provincial law of 1928, which puts the province at the top of a headmaster in place of the rector and a deputation consisting of rectors 4 to 8, in place of the council, both appointed on the proposal of the Minister of the Interior. During the Second World War, 11 August 1944, the Committee of National Liberation Toscano, at the end of the battle for the liberation of Florence, takes office in Palazzo Medici Riccardi (seat of the province) and restores the Provincial Deputation, culminating in a Decree of April 4, 1944 (RDL April 4, 1944, n. 11). First president Mario Augusto Martini. The appointment will remain until the prefectural elections of 1951.

Following the new law of 8 March 1951, No 122, June 10 elections are held July 10 and the provincial council elects new chairman Mario Fabiani, the first mayor of Florence after the war, will remain in office until 1962. In 1992, the gap is the town of Prato, Cantagallo, Carmignano, Montemurlo, Poggio a Caiano, Vaiano Verne and formed the present province of Prato.

The focus on the agricultural landscape

The province of Florence in areas where a massive and uncontrolled urbanization have resulted in failure. However permangomo some areas of great value to the agricultural landscape including the placement of the glue joint effort of the old world Tuscan farm, which now seeks to preserve that part that remained.

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