Arno river
The Arno is a river in region of Tuscany, Italy, that crosses
all the region from Mount Falterona
(near the city of Arezzo,
in Casentino
area), to Pisa where it enters Tyrrhenian
Sea. It is the biggest river in the region.
It crosses Florence
too, where it passes below the Ponte
Vecchio. The river flooded the city regularly in historical times, the last
occasion being the famous flood of 1966.
While classified as a river, the Arno is sometimes
described as having a torrent-like behaviour, because it can easily go from
almost dry to near-flood in a few days. New dams built upstream of
Florence have greatly alleviated the problem in the last years.
