Arezzo is known worldwide as the City of Gold and the Giostra del Saracino, it was home to the oldest university in Tuscany, and one of the first in Europe.

The city of Arezzo is located in the northern part of the Valdichiana, the two streams that cross the Castro and the Vingone are thrown into the Canale Maestro della Chiana that traces the river bed of the ancient river Clanis.

Directly north of the city Casentino, which is the valley crossed by the first part of the Arno; to the North-West is the Upper Valdarno, always crossed by the Arno in the stretch that runs between Arezzo and Florence, through the easy pass of the Torrino and the Cerfone valley and the Scheggia pass, you have access to the North-East to the fourth valley, the Valtiberina, crossed by the first part of the Tevere.