Italy - Tuscany - Florence - River Arno panorama 01_DSC9273
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A view Northwest along the River Arno from the Ponte Vecchio.
During my 2019 trip to Florence the Arno looked a lot less appealing than it did during my 2014 visit........ Not sure if that's because it had been raining a lot in the mountains or whether it's because they'd fixed the blockage in the sewers.......
Click here to see more photos from Tuscany and Florence : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157714689304067
From Wikipedia : 'The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a southward curve. The river turns to the west near Arezzo passing through Florence, Empoli and Pisa, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Marina di Pisa.
With a length of 241 kilometres (150 mi), it is the largest river in the region. It has many tributaries: Sieve at 60 kilometres (37 mi) long, Bisenzio at 49 kilometres (30 mi), Ombrone Pistoiese at 47 kilometres (29 mi), and the Era, Elsa, Pesa, and Pescia......
It crosses Florence, where it passes below the Ponte Vecchio and the Santa Trinita bridge (built by Bartolomeo Ammannati but inspired by Michelangelo). The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, most recently in 1966, with 4,500 cubic metres per second (160,000 cu ft/s) after rainfall of 437.2 millimetres (17.21 in) in Badia Agnano and 190 millimetres (7.5 in) in Florence, in only 24 hours. '
© D.Godliman
Italy - Tuscany - Florence - River Arno panorama 01_DSC9273
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A view Northwest along the River Arno from the Ponte Vecchio.
During my 2019 trip to Florence the Arno looked a lot less appealing than it did during my 2014 visit........ Not sure if that's because it had been raining a lot in the mountains or whether it's because they'd fixed the blockage in the sewers.......
Click here to see more photos from Tuscany and Florence : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157714689304067
From Wikipedia : 'The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a southward curve. The river turns to the west near Arezzo passing through Florence, Empoli and Pisa, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Marina di Pisa.
With a length of 241 kilometres (150 mi), it is the largest river in the region. It has many tributaries: Sieve at 60 kilometres (37 mi) long, Bisenzio at 49 kilometres (30 mi), Ombrone Pistoiese at 47 kilometres (29 mi), and the Era, Elsa, Pesa, and Pescia......
It crosses Florence, where it passes below the Ponte Vecchio and the Santa Trinita bridge (built by Bartolomeo Ammannati but inspired by Michelangelo). The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, most recently in 1966, with 4,500 cubic metres per second (160,000 cu ft/s) after rainfall of 437.2 millimetres (17.21 in) in Badia Agnano and 190 millimetres (7.5 in) in Florence, in only 24 hours. '
© D.Godliman