X-Nico

unusual facts about Arno River



Beatrice Portinari

Dante looks longingly at Beatrice (in center) passing by with friend Lady Vanna (red) along the Arno River

Bisenzio

The Bisenzio is a river of 49 km that starts in the municipality of Cantagallo and enters into the Arno river in Signa (Florence).


see also

Florence War Cemetery

Florence War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War II located in Italy near Florence in the locality Girone-Compiobbi (municipality of Fiesole), close to the Arno river.

Kathrine Taylor

Retiring in 1966, she moved to Florence, Italy and wrote Diary of Florence in Flood, inspired by the great flood of the Arno river in November of that year.