Villa le Corti a Ruballa
This building is one of the few that still retain the aspect of a thirteenth-century fortified palace; surrounded by high crenellated walls coated in...
Villa la Torre
On the right we find the vast complex comprising the ancient Peruzzi villa which some old inhabitants still call "The Figna", the surname of...
Val di Lucciole (Valley of the Fireflies)
The name Val di Lucciole refers to the small coleoptera which illuminate our fields in the cool nights of June and that, in this...
The Church of San Giorgio a Ruballa
The building that stands on a spur of the hill with white plaster, a facade protected by a porch and three blind arches on...
Osteria Nuova
The village lies 225 meters high on the slopes of Monte Pilli (491m) and arises from the second half of the eighteenth century on...
Il Poderino, Il Misciano and il Miscianone
The first building on the right, called il Poderino, belonged to the church of San Quirico. Here for nearly a century has lived the...
The Oak Grove chain
The road is still lined with a thick hedge of bushes, on which some tower some oaks (downy oak, quercus pubescens). These, in the...
The Bigallo Chapel
The chapel, surmounted by a bell tower and lit by two windows facing the street, is accessed from a nice portal inside the building,...
The Holm Oak
In the Bagno a Ripoli territory many holm oaks adorn the parks and gardens of the old manor houses; rarer is finding them in...
The Monte Pilli Furnaces
Le Fornaci di Monte Pilli were built by Ubaldini Peruzzi in 1866 for producing mortar and concrete with raw materials from the area and...