Province of Florence

The province of Florence (Template:Langx) was a province in the northeast of Tuscany region of Italy. The city or comune of Florence was both the capital of the province of Florence, and of the Region of Tuscany. It had an area of Template:Convert and a population of 1,012,180 as of 31 December 2014. The territory of the province was the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.

In 2015 the province was replaced by the Metropolitan City of Florence.

Geography

The Province of Florence was bordered by the Province of Bologna in the north, the Province of Ravenna and Forlì-Cesena in the north-east, the provinces of Prato, Pistoia, Pisa and Lucca in the west; the Province of Siena in the south and the Province of Arezzo in the east and southeast.Template:Sfn Much of the province lied in the plain of the Arno river.

Government

List of presidents of the province of Florence

	President	Term start	Term end	Party
1	Mario Fabiani	1951	1962	Italian Communist Party
2	Elio Gabbuggiani	1962	1970	Italian Communist Party
3	Luigi Tassinari	1970	1975	Italian Communist Party
4	Franco Ravà	1975	1980	Italian Socialist Party
5	Renato Righi	1980	1981	Italian Socialist Party
6	Oublesse Conti	1981	1985	Italian Communist Party
7	Alberto Brasca	1985	1990	Italian Communist Party
8	Mila Pieralli	1990	1995	Italian Communist Party Democratic Party of the Left
9	Michele Gesualdi	1995	1999	Italian People's Party The Daisy
		1999	2004
10	Matteo Renzi	2004	2009	The Daisy Democratic Party
11	Andrea Barducci	2009	2014	Democratic Party

See also

• Metropolitan City of Florence

External links

• Photo gallery: Province of Florence — licensed photos.

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