One municipality, two towns, two humanist claims. Figline is the 1433 birthplace of Marsilio Ficino, the philosopher who translated the complete Plato for Lorenzo the Magnificent; Incisa is where young Francesco Petrarch spent his childhood, from 1305 to 1311, on family land. Since January 2014 the two Valdarno centres have shared a single administration serving 23,124 residents.
The merger never merged their identities: Figline keeps its porticoed square and collegiate church, Incisa its narrow village strung beneath the cliff that names it. Florence lies twenty kilometres downstream, a neighbour these towns have been talking to for seven centuries.
Bistecca alla Fiorentina
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Next up: Saint Romulus and Saint Alexander, patrons remembered by the parish church of Gaville, Tuesday 6 July
Nearest airport: Firenze Peretola, 29 km away
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📅 Every year, on 6 July
Figline e Incisa Valdarno celebrates Saint Romulus and Saint Alexander on 6 July; in the hamlet of Gaville stands the ancient parish church of San Romolo, among the main historical and religious landmarks of the municipal territory.
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