Monte Falterona is a mountain in the
Tuscan-Romagnolo Apeninnes, in the
Casentino
The Casentino is the valley in which the first tract of the river Arno flows to Subbiano, Italy.
It is one of the four valleys (alongside Valdarno, Valdichiana, and Valtiberina) in which the Province of Arezzo is divided. Mount Falterona, fr ...
traditional region, standing at 1,654 m. It is part of the
Casentino forests, Monte Falterona and Campigna National Park. The peak is crossed by the borders of the provinces of
Florence,
Arezzo
Arezzo ( , , ) , also ; ett, 𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌕𐌉𐌌, Aritim. is a city and ''comune'' in Italy and the capital of the province of the same name located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about southeast of Florence at an elevation of above sea level ...
and
Forlì-Cesena. The mountain, mostly composed of
sandstone, is covered by
beech
Beech (''Fagus'') is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. Recent classifications recognize 10 to 13 species in two distinct subgenera, ''Engleriana'' and ''Fagus''. The ''Engle ...
es and, from one of its sides, the
Arno River
The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber.
Source and route
The river originates on Monte Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a s ...
springs ( it, Capo d'Arno).
On the east is a grassy depression with the relic of an ancient lake known as the ''
Lago degli Idoli''. The lake has been important from an archaeological perspective as numerous
Etruscan statuettes have been found, now distributed across a number of Western museums, including the
Louvre,
Hermitage and
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It documen ...
.
British Museum Collection
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References
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Mountains of the Apennines
One-thousanders of Italy
Mountains of Tuscany
Mountains of Emilia-Romagna
Monte Falterona
Monte Falterona
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