Certaldo

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Certaldo

Total population

16,121

Coordinates43.55°, 11.04°

Demographic figures from ISTAT. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Certaldo is a town and comune (municipality) of Tuscany, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Florence, located in the middle of Valdelsa. It is about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southwest of the Florence Cathedral, and 40 minutes by rail north of Siena.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Michelangelo Tilli

Italian botanist (1655-1740)

Luciano Spalletti

Italian association football player and manager

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Felice Ficherelli

Italian painter (1605-1660)

Saint Fina

Italian christian

Vincenzo Tamagni

Italian Renaissance painter (1492-1530)

Ernesto Calindri

Italian actor (1909–1999)

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Attavante degli Attavanti

Italian painter

Filippo Buonaccorsi

Italian Renaissance humanist

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Folgóre da San Gimignano

Italian poet

Bastiano Mainardi

Italian painter (1460-1513)

Bernardino Poccetti

Italian painter (1548-1612)

Giuseppe Ferrara

Italian film director (1932–2016)

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Giovanni Antonio Dosio

Italian architect and sculptor (1533–1611)

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Pietro Chesi

Italian cyclist (1902–1944)

Fabrizio Berni

Italian footballer

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Francesco Livi

Italian painter

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Certaldo

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Vipera aspis francisciredi

Vipera aspis francisciredi

Seen 2026-09-16

Violet Dropwing

Trithemis annulata

Seen 2026-09-15

Brown Argus

Aricia agestis

Seen 2026-09-13

Wall Brown

Lasiommata megera

Seen 2026-09-13

Tree Grayling

Hipparchia statilinus

Seen 2026-09-13

Meadow Brown

Maniola jurtina

Seen 2026-09-13

Radiated Wolf Spider

Hogna radiata

Seen 2026-09-13

Poplar Hawkmoth

Laothoe populi

Seen 2026-09-13

Leather Beetle

Carabus coriaceus

Seen 2026-09-12

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers