“Thus paterno stands for property handed down from father to son, in other words, father-owner in the sense of father-owner while he is alive and afterwards he retains the adjective paterno as of father.

The place name Paterno is very common in Tuscany: near Castelfranco di Sotto, in Valdarbia (two localities), near
Bagno a Ripoli, in Val di Chiana, in Val di Cornia, in Val di Pesa, in Val di Sieve, in Montaione (two localities), near San Godenzo, in Mugello, near San Gimignano, in Pistoia, near Vallombrosa, near Vinci, unless others.

This area with Paterno border of the municipality of is located on the Montespertoli with those of Castelfiorentino and Empoli.
To get an idea, I give the extension of the Paterno hunting reserve, which is over 496 hectares,”