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Rufina
  • Districts
Casini
Castelnuovo
Contea
Falgano
Petrognano Rimaggio
Pinzano
Pomino
Rufina Stazione
Scopeti
Turicchi
  • At a glance

Rufina is a village of Etruscan origin, covering a total area of 45.68 Km2 and currently has a population that numbers around 6,486.

  • Useful contact numbers
Charitable Organisations : Tel. 0558397089
Ambulance : Tel. 0558397687
Carabinieri (Military / Civil Police) : Tel. 0558397002
Police : Tel. 0558396115
Public Library : Tel. 0558398787
Sports Centre : Tel. 0558398303
Local Council : Tel. 055839651
  • Local Events
There is a market every Saturday morning

Holy Saturday
‘Scoppio del Carro’, a local commemorative procession.

July

Village fete on the third Monday of the month.

Autumn
Local craft exhibition and fair.

November
Feast of St. Martin, the patron saint
.

  • Places of Interest
Villa di Poggio Reale : Constructed in the 16th-century, it features a three-arch open gallery held aloft by pillars. The doors open to reveal a grand stairway that leads to the immense underground cellars of the current owners, the Counts Spalletti, and is full of old vats and barrels. The villa is used these days for conferences and exhibitions, and on its upper level contains the Valdisieve Wine Museum.

Chiesa di S. Stefano a Castiglioni : This 12th-century Romanesque church contains a picture of the Virgin with Child from the 13th-century, a fresco of the Virgin with Child, Angels, St. Sebastian and Anchorite from 1532, and a marble holy water font from the 16th-century.

Pieve di S. Bartolomeo in Pomino : This parish church was built circa the 12th- or 13th-century, and has since been restored numerous times. It houses several items of interest: a terracotta statue of the Virgin Crowned with Child and Saints, attributed to Luca della Robbia; a tablet of the Virgin with Child and Saints dating from the 15th-century; a fresco of St. John the Apostle from the 14th- or 15th-century.

Chiesa di S. Maria del Carmine ai Fossi : Restored by the parish in 1924, this church retains a Renaissance portico.

Chiesa di S. Pietro a Petrognano : Restored in 1925, it features a portico with arches on stone pillars. Inside, the altar is partly made from pietra serena.

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