Florence lies at the heart of the northern Apennines, in a basin of the Arno river which runs out to Pisa and the sea.
The Arno rover goes through both Florence and Pisa.
Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.