If wherever the name in Tuscany you/he/she is associated to his immense and immortal artistic patrimony, surely also the excellence of his/her material culture, tied up indissolubly to the territory, of it ago a known reality all over the world. It is in such sense one of the points of diamond it is certainly the oil extravergine of olive, universal and indisputable parameter of quality. From the historical point of view the olivo was already present as wild quality in prehistoric epoch, especially in some zones of the shore. But it starts to dominate the Tuscan hills, characterizing her paesaggisticamente, only toward the end of the Middle Ages, thanks above all to the work of the Physicians that they strongly increased the cultivations of this plant and they favored the recovery of cultivable areas whereas previously woods and swamps camped. Today the olivicoltura in Tuscany, thanks to the continuous trial of evolution and the progress of the technique that have characterized above all the last century, you/he/she has assumed an economic and social importance of great relief, almost all interesting in deeper measure the provinces, also having these different territories among them for structural conditions, climatic and colturali. Florence can be considered the province most important of Tuscany from the point of view olivicolo not so much for the extension of the surface olivetata, for which it is second to Arezzo, how much for the harvest of the olives and the production of oil owed to the greatest concentration of plants on the territory. This is characterized by olive-groves that they occupy, besides the Florentine hill, other three great homogeneous areas: the Montalbano that connects him to east with the territory of the province of Pistoia; the south Chianti of the chief town, with alternate olive-groves to vineyards; and the slopes of the Pratomagno that, always to south, it connects him with the province of Arezzo. But the panorama olivicolo is a great deal in reality more composite: already in the immediate city suburbs, in the oriental part, a zone opens that from a side it reaches Rufina, to north, while from the other one it goes up again along the course of the Arno up to the buttresses of Vallombrosa. The oil produced in these areas, also enough lists, are fresh and yielded with a definite note vegetable and clean memory of artichoke, mowed grasses and officinali. Many are the centers worthy of note in this area: among these Bath to Ripoli where the olivo has good crop and various they are the tied up initiatives to it. Other remarkable centers are Pontassieve and the zone of Rufina, where the oil drawn by the plants of the band most elevated altitude distinguishes him for fineness in comparison to that of the oil you of fondovalle. In the Florentine it also reverts the area that from Sea, to south of Rufina, it extends him to the territory of Reggello, to the confinements with the province aretina. This, among the so many other zones olivicole in Tuscany, is perhaps that with the most unusual homogeneity pedoclimatica, both for the nature of the ground is, still more, for the general southwest exposure. Moving us to south in Florence, we go down to the hills that anticipate the more moved and elevated territory of the Chianti: the oil that produces him has one fragrance of his from the particularly vigorous tones. The notable centers where the cult of the oil races parallel to that of the wine they are here also numerous: Scandicci, Impruneta, St. Casciano Val of it Weighs, Mercatale, Barberino Val of hilt, to remember only some of it. The territory of the Chianti Classico extends him southeast of this zone and divides him between the province in Florence and that of Siena: its great center in Florentine earth is Heavy in Chianti. To west, in the empolese, the centers of great interest are to Empoli, Montespertoli and Certaldo. Gone beyond the Arno in direction north the zone of the two slopes of the Montalbano he meets then, with you Win on the westerner and Carmignano (in territory pratese) on the Oriental, while returning to east and completing the turn of the Florentine earths in hourly sense he reaches the slopes that overhang Lawn up to Florentine Order and Fiesole. The province in Florence is protected by some denominations: the Igp Toscano, with the mention geographical Hills in Florence and the Classical Dop Chianti. Besides it is waiting for certification to the MiPaf the Dop Colline in Florence.
of Mark Oreggia and Laura Marinelli 
