Capital of a vast central province of Tuscany, easily accessible from Florence (km. 80), Siena (km. 65), Perugia (km. 80) and Rome (km.205), the city of Arezzo enlarging fan around the slope of a hill sweet relief (m. 296 on top), which rises from a wide flat roughly circular, resulting from the confluence of four natural basins.
The plain Arezzo (m. 250 elevator average) opens to the west and south Valdarno Top-west towards the Valdichiana, wide river valleys designed by the same name watercourses; north receives the mouth of Casentino, narrow basin intermontano; east modest mountainous diaphragm separating from the upper Valtiberina.
The city is 43 ° 27 '58 "lat. N and 0 ° 34' long. Compared to meridian west of Rome (Monte Mario). Crow flies is 86 km. By the Adriatic Sea and 109 from Tirreno.
Sovrastano the basin Arezzo, delimitandone perimeter, a number of hills and mountain peaks belonging to the first buttresses backbone dell'Appennino tosco-umbro: west to the small mountains leading to Chianti, north-west slopes of the massif of Pratomagno, north / est l'Alpe di Catenaia, east of the Alpe Poti, south Mount Lignano, through the remains of the hill Agazzi delimits the plain to the south-west.
The Corsican water larger, the river Arno, draws a great handle 7 km. North-west of the city, before receiving the waters of the channel master of Chiana and form the artificial basin of Penna. The town is crossed by two rivers: the Castro, which flows through the center in an underground river bed, and Vingone, which hugs the towns outside south-west. The lake basin is the closest of Lake Trasimeno, located 33 km. South of the city, just over the border with the region of Umbria.
