Arezzo is province of an immense territory of the Tuscany center orients them, and easy raggiungibile from Florence (km. 80), Siena (km. 65), Perugia (km. 80) and Rome (km.205).
The plain of Arezzo (250 meters on the sea level) is opened to the west towards the Advanced Valdarno and sud/ovest towards the Valdichiana; it comprises wide goes them fluvial designed from omonimi the water course. To Arezzo north it receives the outlet of the Casentino, tightened intermontano river basin; to east a modest montuoso diaphragm divides it from the advanced feature of the Valtiberina.
The city of Arezzo tos be distant tos be distant approximately 86 km from Adriatic sea and 109 from the Tyrrhenian one. To the west of Arezzo we find the modest reliefs that preludono to the Chianti, to nord/ovest the slopes of the massive one of the Pratomagno, to east north the Alpe di Catenaia, to east the Alpe di Poti, south the Lignano mount, than through the last ones propaggini of the hill of Agazzi it delimits the plain to sud/ovest.
The water course of greater dimensions is the Arno river. The city is covered from two torrents: Castro, that it crosses the center sliding under earth, and the Vingone, that it touches the quarters of the periphery south the west of the city of Arezzo. The river basin more close is that one of the Trasimeno lago, situated to approximately 33 km. to south of the city, little beyond the border with the Umbria region.
The city of Arezzo has ancient origins: it was one of the greater Etruscan cities and subsequently it became roman city situated guard of the Appennine valichi, dominating it high it and medium it goes them of the Arno, the high course of the Tevere and, towards south, the Valdichiana, road in order to catch up Rome.
Arezzo has been a flourishing center for its rich economy and of monuments. Arezzo rises on one hill, to the limit of the plain formed from alluviums of the Arno. To its apex they emerge the Cathedral and the Medicea Fortress, from which, they are circulated towards the bottom and the doors, the main roads. The part more elevated conserve more detached medioevale aspect, little contaminated from the successive constructions.
District:
Anghiari
- Arezzo
- Badia tedalda
- Bibbiena
- Bucine
- Capolona
- Caprese michelangelo
- Castel focognano
- Castel san niccolo
- Castelfranco di sopra
- Castiglion fibocchi
- Castiglion fiorentino
- Cavriglia
- Chitignano
- Chiusi della verna
- Civitella in val di chiana
- Cortona
- Foiano della chiana
- Laterina
- Loro ciuffenna
- Lucignano
- Marciano della chiana
- Monte san savino
- Montemignaio
- Monterchi
- Montevarchi
- Ortignano raggiolo
- Pergine valdarno
- Pian di sco
- Pieve santo stefano
- Poppi
- Pratovecchio
- San giovanni valdarno
- Sansepolcro
- Sestino
- Stia
- Subbiano
- Talla
- Terranuova bracciolini
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