Sesto Fiorentino

Sesto Fiorentino recognised regionally as just Sesto, is a municipality inside the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. The oldest acknowledged human agreement within the vicinity dates from the Mesolithic. The Etruscan presence is understood from the 7th century BC, but the city proper became created by means of the Romans as Sextus ab urbe lapis. The first churches were built within the early center Ages, among which the maximum essential became the Pieve of San Martino.

Sesto Fiorentino was problem to the Archbishop of Florence. Later it became underneath the Florentine Republic, which dried the obvious and boosted the vicinity's economy beginning from the Renaissance age. In 1735, Marquis Carlo Ginori founded one of the first porcelain plant life in Europe, the Manifattura di Doccia. Now beneath the name Richard-Ginori, the enterprise continues to be positioned in Sesto, and is the biggest porcelain producer in Italy.