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Tuscany fun facts
Things you might not know about Tuscany. Every fact comes from an official or primary source, named alongside it.
Updated October 2026
Eight World Heritage sites
UNESCO lists the historic centres of Florence (1982), San Gimignano (1990), Siena (1995) and Pienza (1996), Pisa’s Piazza del Duomo (1987), the Val d’Orcia (2004), the Medici Villas and Gardens (2013) and, as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe, Montecatini Terme (2021).
Fourteen Medici properties
The Medici Villas and Gardens inscription covers “twelve complete villas with their gardens and two additional pleasure gardens”, Boboli among them (UNESCO).
A wine with its own DOC
Bolgheri Sassicaia is a DOC of its own, made by a single estate, Tenuta San Guido (Consorzio Bolgheri DOC).
A MICHELIN region
The MICHELIN Guide Italy 2026 gives Tuscany forty starred restaurants: Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence with three stars, four with two and thirty-five with one. Forte dei Marmi alone has five.
An island national park
Elba, Giglio, Capraia, Pianosa, Montecristo, Gorgona and Giannutri are the seven islands of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park (islepark.it).