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The Sieve's basin, which flows into the Arno immediately before Florence. The middle Valdarno, with the plain including Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Prato, and Pistoia. The lower Valdarno, with the valley of important tributaries such as the Pesa, Elsa, and Era and in which, after Pontedera, the Arno flows into the Ligurian Sea. The river has a ...
Luxury Real Estate [ edit ] The word itself luxury derived from the Latin luxus , and associated with real estate, indicates today in Italy, a category of properties of particular value and of high historical and artistic value.
The Valdarno is the valley of the river Arno, from Florence to the sea. [1] The name applies to the entire river basin, though usage of the term generally excludes Casentino and the valleys formed by major tributaries. [citation needed] Some towns in the area: Rignano sull'Arno; Figline e Incisa Valdarno; San Giovanni Valdarno; Montevarchi
The Oltrarno (beyond the Arno) is a district of Florence, Italy. It is located south of the River Arno . It contains part of the historic centre of Florence and many notable sites such as the church Santo Spirito di Firenze , Palazzo Pitti , Belvedere , and Piazzale Michelangelo .
San Miniato is a town and comune in the province of Pisa, in the region of Tuscany, Italy. San Miniato sits at an historically strategic location atop three small hills where it dominates the lower Arno valley, between the valleys of Egola and Elsa rivers.
Villa Gamberaia, built in the Tuscan style by the Florentine gentleman-merchant Zanobi Lapi in the early 1600s, is located on the hillside of Settignano, overlooking the city of Florence, Italy and the surrounding Arno Valley. [Fig. 1 View from the upper terrace] [1]
The Casentino is the valley in which the first tract of the river Arno flows to Subbiano, Italy. It is one of the four valleys (alongside Valdarno, Valdichiana, and Valtiberina) in which the Province of Arezzo is divided. Mount Falterona, from which the Arno starts, represents the northern boundary between the Casentino and Romagna. On the east ...
The town of Stia is often called the "source of the Arno", although the real source is some 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) higher on the slopes of Monte Falterona.However, Stia is the first true village the Arno reaches, where it is joined by another river, the Staggia, that starts at Passo la Calla to the north-east.