San Godenzo
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San Godenzo is a comune
Comune
In Italy, the comune is the basic administrative division, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality.-Importance and function:...

(municipality) in the Province of Florence
Province of Florence
The Province of Florence is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. It has an area of 3,514 sq. km and a population of 933,860 in 44 comuni....

 in the Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 region Tuscany
Tuscany
Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....

, located about 35 km northeast of Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

, in the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines.

San Godenzo borders the following municipalities: Dicomano
Dicomano
Dicomano is a comune in the Province of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 25 km northeast of Florence.Dicomano borders the following municipalities: Londa, Rufina, San Godenzo, Vicchio.-External links:*...

, Londa
Londa (FI)
Londa is a municipality in the Province of Florence in the central Italian region Tuscany.-Geography:The neighbouring communes are Dicomano, Pratovecchio , Rufina, San Godenzo and Stia....

, Marradi
Marradi
Marradi is a comune in the Province of Florence in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 45 km northeast of Florence...

, Portico e San Benedetto
Portico e San Benedetto
Portico e San Benedetto is a comune in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 60 km southeast of Bologna....

, Premilcuore
Premilcuore
Premilcuore is a comune in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 70 km southeast of Bologna and about 35 km southwest of Forlì....

, Santa Sofia
Santa Sofia, Italy
Santa Sofia is a comune in the Province of Forlì-Cesena in the Italian region Emilia–Romagna, located about 80 km southeast of Bologna and about 35 km southwest of Forlì....

, Stia
Stia
Stia is a comune in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 40 km east of Florence and about 40 km northwest of Arezzo. The village of Stia is often called the "source of the Arno", although the real source is some 1200 metres higher up on the slopes of Monte...

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Located at the feet of the Monte Falterona
Monte Falterona
Monte Falterona is a mountain in the Tuscan-Romagnolo Apeninnes, in the Casentino traditional region, standing at 1,654 m. It is part of the Casentino forests, Monte Falterona and Campigna National Park....

, it is one of the accesses to the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona e Campigna National Park. The frazione of Castagno d'Andrea
Castagno d'Andrea
Castagno d'Andrea is a frazione of the comune of San Godenzo, in the province of Florence, Tuscany . It is located within the Foreste Casentinesi, Monte Falterona, Campigna National Park.It was the birthplace of the painter Andrea del Castagno....

 was the birthplace of the Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 painter Pei Dubaire.
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