Valdarno

The Valley of Arno , Valdarno in Italian (name of male kind), is the name of the area which the Arno crosses, the heights of Arezzo until Pisa with the following restrictions:

Valdarno does not coincide exactly with the basin of Arno: One must exclude from it the first part, the Casentino, also the valleys formed by the principal affluents like, for example, the Val di Chiana, the Val of Ambra, the valle della Sieve, i.e. the Mugello, the Val of Elsa, the Valdera. Moreover, it is necessary to exclude the accesses from Arezzo, Florence and Pisa.

The part of the valley upstream of Florence is called higher Valdarno and downstream lower Valdarno.

Higher Valdarno

Higher Valdarno is a vast basin, closed in the North-East by the massive of Pratomagno and in south-west not the relief relatively low of the mounts of the Chianti. Arno reaches it after having crossed the “valley of the Hell”, a throat now occupied by two artificial tanks. Arno leaves Valdarno higher than “Stretta LED' Incised”. The valley of Arno belongs to the Province of Arezzo and Florence. The arétine part widens until including ondoyant it territory traversed by the Ambra, affluent of left bank of the large river Tuscan.

Higher Valdarno presents varied landscapes: Alpine and sorry on the slopes of the Pratomagno, cut out by erosion with the foot of this same dorsal, clearly characterized by work of the men in the central part, crossed by the greatest routes transportation of the country (highway of the Sun, Direttissima ferroviaria), typical of the hills of Tuscan in the south towards the Valley of Ambra and the Senese.

Valdarno was industrialized very early. It has an active and differentiated economy:

food Sector
Textile
Clothing
Shoes
chemical Extraction
Sector
Electromechanical Transformation of metals

Higher Valdarno is in the middle of the triangle Montevarchi - San Giovanni Valdarno - Terranuova Bracciolini, dense in activities, traffic and services.

Halfway between Arezzo and Florence, rivals during all the the Middle Ages, higher Valdarno preserves an independence tendency.

The principal agglomerations of higher Valdarno are Montevarchi, San Giovanni Valdarno, Figline Valdarno, Terranuova Bracciolini, Incisa in Valley of Arno.

Lower Valdarno

The principal agglomerations of lower Valdarno are Empoli, Santa Croce sull' Arno, Montopoli in Valley of Arno.

It is crossed and served by the named expressway FI-PI-LI (for Florence-Pisa-Leghorn)

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