Tuscany (Italian:Toscana,pronounced[tosˈkaːna]) is aregion inItaly. It haes an aurie o aboot 23,000 square kilometres (8,900 sq mi) an a population o aboot 3.75 million indwallers. The regional caipital isFlorence (Firenze).
Sax Tuscan localities hae been designatitWarld Heritage Steids: thehistoric centre o Florence (1982), the historical centre oSiena (1995), the square o theCathedral o Pisa (1987), the historical centre oSan Gimignano (1990), the historical centre oPienza (1996) an theVal d'Orcia (2004). Furthermair, Tuscany haes ower 120 protectitnatur reserves. This maks Tuscany an its caipital ceety Florence vera popular tourist destinations, attractin millions o tourists ivery year. Florence itsel receives an average o 10 million tourists a year, placin the ceety as ane o the maist visitit in the warld (in 2007, the ceety became the warld's 46t maist visitit ceety, wi ower 1.715 million arrivals).[4]