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Arno
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Country
| Italy
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Source
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- location
| Mount Falterona
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- elevation
| 1,385 m (4,544 ft)
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Mouth
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- location
| Ligurian Sea
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Length
| 241 km (150 mi)
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Basin size
| 8,228 km
2
(3,177 sq mi)
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Discharge
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- average
| 110 m
3
/s (3,900 cu ft/s) (at the mouth)
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The
Arno
is a
river
in the
Tuscany
region of
Italy
. It is one of the important rivers of central Italy.
The river begins on
Mount Falterona
in the
Casentino
area of the
Apennines
. It first takes a curve to the
south
. The river turns to the
west
near
Arezzo
. It passes through
Florence
,
Empoli
and
Pisa
, then flows into the
Tyrrhenian Sea
at the Marina di Pisa. At a length of 241 kilometres (150 mi), it is the longest river in the
region
.
A
flood on November 4, 1966
collapsed the embankment in Florence. This killed at least 40 people. It also damaged or destroyed millions of works of art and rare books. 40 years later, hundreds of works had still not been
restored
.
[1]
- ↑
Alison McLean (November 2006). "This Month in History".
Smithsonian
.
37
(8): 34.
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