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Ponte Buriano is one of the most famous Aretine historical bridges that cross the Arno. It takes its name from an ancient village more distant from the river than today’s hamlet, which has now disappeared. Even of the settlement that developed in the Middle Ages at the two ends of the bridge only a part remained on the right riverbank.

In Etruscan times, in the area, which can be crossed in the summer months with a driveway ford, there used to be a wooden bridge slightly further downstream. In the Roman period a more robust one was built, with masonry pillars on which perhaps a wooden structure continued to run.

From here passed the consular road Cassia Vetus of Hellenistic age, which from Rome reached Arezzo and then extended into Valdarno Superiore, before reaching Fiesole and from the 1st century b.C. the new colony of Florentia, the future Florence. (Discover Arezzo)

Val di Chiana is one of the four valleys surrounding Arezzo. The valley is formed by a fertile plain, intensively exploited by the Etruscans and Romans, which became progressively marshy in the Middle Ages. For this reason, the surrounding rolling hills welcomed towns and villages, which grew higher for both defensive reasons and to stay away from unhealthy areas. From the XVI century, reclamation works began, returning the land to agriculture. (Discover Arezzo)