\li105 \f1 \fs22 Situated at the intersection of four valleys, the Val di Chiana, the Val Tiberina, the Casentino, and the
middle valley of the Arno, Arezzo was one of the most important cities of northern Etruria. It has been inhabited continuously from the sixth century BC to the present day. Very little is left of its ancient monuments: a few stretches of the city walls
built out of stone and brick, a group of architectural terracottas from temple buildings of the fifth century BC, and fragments of sculptures in the Hellenistic style that probably came from the \b \cf1 \ATXht16 pediment\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 of a temple. The
celebrated bronze sculpture of the \b \cf2 \ATXht3 Chimera\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 dating from the early years of the fourth century BC was found here in 1573.\par
