This presentation is done by Joachim Limos as one of his projects on ITALIAN REGIONS in his Italian 11 class (AY 2013-2014) at the University of the Philippines under Prof. Emanuela Adesini.

2.  Roughly triangular in shape.
 The Tyrrhenian Sea is located on Tuscany’s western
coastline:
• Contains the Tuscan Archpelago
• Largest island of the archipelago is Elba*
 Shares borders with the regions:
 Liguria (Northwest)
 Emilia-Romagna (North and east)
 Umbria (East)
 Lazio (Southeast)

4.  Surrounded by major mountain chains (The Appenines)
 Dominated by hilly countryside:
• Hills make up nearly two-third’s of the region’s total area.
• Mostly used for agriculture.
 Rich and fertile plains occupy the remaining areas found
mostly around the valley of the river Arno*
 Many of Tuscany’s largest are found on the banks of river
Arno:
• Florence
• Empoli
• Pisa

5. Tuscan Hills near Lucca

6. Someone hiking the Tuscan-Emilian Appenines (Appenino Tosco-Emiliano)

7. River Arno (in Florence)

8.  Listed from North to South:
• Massa and Carrara
• Lucca
• Pistoia
• Prato
• Florence
• Pisa
• Arezzo
• Livorno
• Siena
• Grosseto

11.  Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany
and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city
in Tuscany.
 Florence is famous for its history. It was a centre of medieval
European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities
during the time. Florence is considered the birthplace of the
Renaissance.
 Florence is also an important city in Italian fashion, being
ranked within the top fifty fashion capitals of the world; it is
also a major national economic centre, being a tourist and
industrial hub.

12.  Palazzo Vecchio (Old
Palace)
 Serves as the town hall
of Florence, Italy. This
massive, Romanesque,
crenellated fortress-
palace is among the
most impressive town
halls found in Tuscany.

13.  Piazza della Repubblica

14.  Piazza della Repubblica
 Is a city square in Florence which is first, built on
top the forum, the centre of an ancient Roman city,
and then of the city’s old ghetto which was swept
away during the Renaissance.
 Colonna della Dovizia or Colonna dell'Abbondanza
(Column of Abundance) is the sculpture found at
the square.

15.  Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (Florence Church)

16.  Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore (Florence Church)
 The Duomo, as it is ordinarily called, was begun in 1296
in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio
and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome
engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
 The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomoo,
includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The
three buildings are part of the UNESCO World
Heritage Site covering the historic centre of Florence
and are a major attraction to tourists visiting the region
of Tuscany.

17.  Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge)

18.  Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge)
 The Ponte Vecchio is a Medieval stone closed-spandrel
segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, in Florence,
noted for still having shops built along it, as was once
common.
 The Ponte Vecchio's two neighboring bridges are the
Ponte Santa Trinita and the Ponte alle Grazie.

19.  Palazzo Pitti

20.  Palazzo Pitti
 It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance
from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present palazzo dates
from 1458 and was originally the town residence of Luca Pitti, an
ambitious Florentine banker.
 The palace was bought by the Medici family in 1549 and became
the chief residence of the ruling families of the Grand Duchy of
Tuscany. It grew as a great treasure house as later generations
amassed paintings, plates, jewelry and luxurious possessions.
 In the late 18th century, the palazzo was used as a power base by
Napoleon, and later served for a brief period as the principal
royal palace of the newly united Italy.

21.  Leonardo da Vinci
 Works:
• The Last Supper
• Mona Lisa
• Virgin of the Rocks
 Studies & Manuscripts:
• Human Anatomy
• Engineering
• Plans for flying machines

22. Michelangelo
 Works:
• Madonna and Child
• David
• Sistine Chapel ceiling
• Numerous sculptures
• Designed the Medici Chapel
and the dome of St. Peter’s
Basilica

23. Dante Alighieri
 Works:
• Divine Comedy:
 Inferno
 Purgatorio
 Paradiso
*each consists of 33 cantos
• Known as il Sommo Poeta
• Father of Italian language
• He, Petrarch and Boccaccio are also known as "the three
fountains" or "the three crowns".

24. Niccolo Machiavelli
 Influential political theorist
 He was a founder of political
science and ethics
 Works:
• Il Principe
• Discourses on Livy
• Poet and Dramatist

25.  Benigni is probably best known
outside of Italy for his movie Life is
Beautiful (La vita è bella) filmed in
Arezzo.
 The film is about an Italian Jewish
man who tries to protect his son’s
innocence during the Holocaust.
 La vita è bella is based on his father’s
experiences who spent three years in
a concentration camp in Bergen-
Belsen.

26.  It is named after the main towns in its territory:
Carrara and Massa, its capital.
 The province provides the production of the
famous white Carrara marble.

28.  Carrara is a city notable for its white or blue-gray
marble found in its quarries.
 Carrara marble has been used since Ancient Rome
and during the Renaissance:
• Pantheon
• Trajan’s Column
• Renaissance sculptures
 Carrara marble is exported around the world but is
also fashioned and sculpted commercially in the city.

30.  Carrara Cathedral (Duomo, 12th Century)

31.  Nearly all the exterior of the Cathedral is covered
by local Carrara marble.
 The portal is crowned by sculptures inspired to
medieval bestiaries, and surmounted by a Gothic
rose window with twisted columns, each different
from the others.

32.  Palazzo Cybo-Malaspina (Ducal Palace)

33.  The Ducal Palace ss now the seat of the Fine Arts
Academy. It is built over a pre-existing Lombard
fortification, it dates to the reign of Guglielmo
Malaspina in 1448.

35.  Massa is the administrative centre of the province
of Massa and Carrara.
 The Massa area is of high touristic value and
together with the twin town of Carrara, Massa is
known for the production and extraction of marble.

36.  Marina di Massa

37.  Marina di Massa, a typical seaside resort, is
one of the tourist spots of the Tuscan Riviera
offering a vast choice of accommodations and
sports facilities, besides the numerous bathing
establishments present.

38.  Piazza Mercurio

42.  Also known as the Orto Botanico di Pian della Fioba, it is a
nature preserve and botanical garden located at 900 meters
altitude in Pian della Fioba, Massa.It is operated by the town in
collaboration with the Università della Toscana.
 The garden was established in 1966 for the study of plants
indigenous to the Apuane Alps and dedicated to botanist Pietro
Pellegrini (1867–1957).

43.  Gianluigi Buffon
• born in Carrara, Italy
• is a FIFA World Cup-
winning Italian goalkeeper
who is currently the
Captain for both Serie A
club Juventus and the
Italian National Team.
• He is widely considered
by experts to be one of the
most dominant and
successful goalkeepers in
history.

45.  Found on the right bank of the mouth of the River
Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of
the Province of Pisa.
 Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower (the
bell tower of the city's cathedral)

46.  Knight’s Square (Piazza dei Cavalieri)

47.  It is one of the most important landmarks in Pisa, Italy, and
second main square of the city. This square was the political
centre in medieval Pisa.
 After the middle of the 16th century, the square became the
headquarters of the Order of the Knights of St. Stephen.
 It is now a centre of education, being the main house of the
Scuola Normale di pisa, a higher learning institution part of
the university

49.  The University of Pisa is a public research university located
in Pisa, Italy. Established in 1343 by an edict of Pope
Clement VI, Pisa is the 19th oldest extant university in the
world and one of the oldest universities in the country.
 It houses Europe’s oldest academic botanical garden (Orto
botanica di Pisa), which was founded in 1544.
 The University of Pisa is part of the Pisa University System,
which includes the Scuola Normale Superiore and the
Sant’Anna Schol of Advanced Studies.

51.  Also known as the Orto Botanico dell’Universita di Pisa, is a
botanical garden operated by the University of Pisa, and
located at via Luca Ghini 5, Pisa, Italy. It is open weekday
mornings without charge.
 The garden was established in 1544 under Cosimo I
de’Medici as the first university botanical garden in Europe,
and entrusted to the famous botanist Luca Ghini of Imola.

53.  It is a small Gothic church in Pisa. The church, erected in
1230, was originally known as Santa Maria di Pontenovo:
the new name of Spina (“thorn”) derives from the presence
of a thorn allegedly part of the crown dressed by Christ on
the Cross, brought to this church in 1333.

55.  The Leaning Tower is a freestanding bell tower situated at
the Piazza del Duomo (“Cathedral Square”) in the city of
Pisa, Italy, and is the third oldest structure in Pisa’s
Cathedral Square.
 Construction for the bell tower began over 800 years ago, in
1173. Architects failed to realize that the soil was unstable,
and that a mere three-meter foundation to support the
tower would not be enough. After the first three stories
were constructed, the ground began to sink, and the tower
began to lean

56.  At that point in time, construction halted for almost a
century, because the Republic of Pisa was at war with the
other existing republics. This allowed the unstable soil to
settle.
 Each year the tower leans further – a millimeter each year.
In 1990, the tower leaned 14 feet and a half out of line.
Engineers worked to stabilize the foundation of the tower,
and were successful in straightening the tower slightly
(without taking away the uniqueness of the landmark) to
prevent the tower from leaning further and toppling over.

60.  Leonardo Pisano
Bigollo (Fibonacci)
 Also known as:
• Leonardo of Pisa
• Leonardo Pisano
• Leonardo Bonacci
• Leornardo Fibonacci
• Or simply: Fibonacci

61.  Is an Italian mathematician and considered by some “the
most talented western mathematician of the Middle Ages”.
 Fibonacci is best known to the modern world for spreading
the Hindu-Arabic numeral system in Europe, primarily
through the publication in 1202 of his Liber Abaci (book of
calculation).
 He is named after a sequence of numbers called the
Fibonacci numbers.

62.  Born on Sept. 22, 1958
 Italian tenor
 Multi-instrumentalist
 Classical Crossover
Artist

63.  Born with poor eyesight, he became blind at the age of twelve following a
football accident.
 In 1998, he was named one of People’s Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful
People.
 In 1999, his nomination for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards
marked the first, and so far only time a classical artist had been
nominated in the category.
 The Prayer, his duet with Celine Dion for the animated film The Quest for
Camelot, won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song and was nominated
for an Academy Award in the same category.

64.  “Crostini”

65.  Typically, the Florentine people never start a meal from the
main course but always have a starter first.
Whether eating in a restaurant or at home with friends you
will always find the liver "crostini" (thin sliced toasted bread
with liver patè) on the table.
 It is a sauce made with chicken livers, butter, capers,
anchovies, onion and broth, which is spread on warm bread.

67.  Similar to spaghetti, it is a thicker pasta made with
egg. It is mixed with boar sauce (a wild animal that
is still in the woods of Tuscany) or hare.
 It can be seasoned with other classic ingredients:
porcini mushrooms, meat sauces, artichokes,
sausages, etc.

69.  The thing that most surprises people that do not
live in Florence, is that the steak is undone meat,
nearly raw. A Florentine steak may also be eaten
slightly cooked. It is accompanied by white beans,
roasted potatoes or a tender salad.

71.  In addition to steak, Florence offers other meat
specialties such as tripe and lampredotto .
Foods that are eaten in kiosks on the street,
even in winter.
 They can be seasoned with green sauce and
enriched with other vegetables (leeks for
example). They are made from parts of the
cow’s stomach

73.  This is one of the most traditional antipasti served
in Florentine restaurants. The meats are arranged in
a circle on a serving dish and decorated with crisp,
tangy salad leaves. Often served with the thick
slices of bread in a basket.

75.  Is made with layers of fresh pasta, meat sauce, and
béchamel with cheese with a sprinkling of Parmigiano on
top, heated through in the oven (it should be lightly
browned) and served with more grated Parmigiano on the
side. The ingredients include fresh vegetables, wine, ham
and beef.

77.  A concoction of chicken breasts with bread crumbs,
Parmesan cheese, spinach, onion, celery, cream
cheese, paprika and garlic powder.

78.  There are 6 wines with appellation D.O.C.G., Denominazione
di Origine Controllata e Garantita (Designation of Origin
Controlled and Guaranteed):
Chianti
Chianti Classico
Brunello di Montalcino
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
Carmignano
Vernaccia di San Gimignano

79.  It is one of the most
known Italian wine.
It is produced in
various parts of
Tuscany, provinces
of Arezzo, Firenze,
Pisa, Pistoia, Prato
and Siena. It is made
from Sangiovese
grapes (75-100%)

80.  It is produced in a zone
of most ancient origin, in
the province of Siena,
inside the full territory
of the communes of
Castellina, Gaiole and
Radda in Chianti and
parts of the communes
of Castelnuovo
Berardenga and
Poggibonsi.

81.  Montalcino, in the province of Siena, is
situated at an altitude of 500 meters
above sea level. Around 1870 a wine
maker, Ferruccio Biondi Santi, started
to plant in its vineyard a clone of
Sangiovese (grosso), called Brunello.
 Brunello di Montalcino is Tuscany's
most famous wine. Produced from 100
percent Sangiovese grapes (Brunello is
the local name for this Sangiovese.

82.  It is a wine with ancient
origins (1300). It is
called "Nobile" because
in the old days it was
mostly produced by
noble families. It is
made from Sangiovese
grapes, locally called
Prugnolo gentile,
(minimum 70%).

83.  It is produced in a small area,
Carmignano and Poggio a
Caiano, in the province of
Prato. This wine is done with
Sangiovese (minimum 50%)
 Carmignano was identified
by Cosimo III de' Medici,
Grand Duke of Tuscany as
one of the superior wine
producing areas of Tuscany
and granted special legal
protections in 1716.

84.  It was the first wine to get the
appellation D.O.C., and today
it is the only white wine in
Tuscany to be D.O.C.G. Its
fame is very ancient and goes
back to the end of 1200. It is
produced inside the territory
of the commune of San
Gimignano (Siena) with
grapes of the same name
(Vernaccia) and with the
eventual addition (maximum
10%) of other white grapes.

85. Tuscany in Popular Culture

87. *This scene is taken at a countryside in Val
d'Orcia, Siena, Tuscany.

89.  The whole second act of Hannibal takes place in Florence.
Ridley Scott had never filmed there before, but described it
as "quite an experience...It was kind of organized chaos...
We were there at the height of tourist season."
 Within Florence, the production would visit various
locations such as the Palazzo Capponi (as Dr. Fell's
workplace), the Ponte Vecchio, the Palazzo Vecchio, the
Pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella and the Cathedral.

90. *This scene is taken near the
Ponte Vecchio

91. *The film’s setting is in Arezzo, Toscana

93.  After scouting more than twelve possible locations
to film scenes that would take place in Volterra,
Italy, the scouting team selected the town of
Montepulciano, which they believe was the best
representation of Meyer's description in the book.

98. (Information and Pictures taken from):
 www.4tuscany.net
 www.trekearth.com
 www.en.wikipedia.org
 www.freeworldmaps.net
 www.aboutflorence.com
 www.firenzealbergo.it
 www.didyouwonder.com
 www.wine-toscana.com
 www.tuscanyintour.com