The resort, documented with the name of Terzano since 1066, stretches over the last sunny slopes of the poggio Crociferro and the Poggio dell’Incontro and includes some manor houses, a church and several old farmhouses.
The name Terzano, clearly derived from Latin, is linked to the figure ‘Tertius’. This explanation, certainly the most reliable, however, is not the only one. For some scholars, the name could be related to the mile calculation of Roman roads and would signal the third mile of the Cassia Vetus alternate route.
Terzano is mentioned in the “Book of Monteaperti”. This manuscript, dating back to the homonymous battle (1260), shows the amount of grain required by the city of Florence for the various peoples of the County, as a tribute for the sustenance of the Florentine Guelph army that would fight with the factions of the exiled Ghibellines, allies of Siena, in the bloody battle. Among the people who were part of the populace of Ripoli was also “S. Lucie Terzano” which had contributed 10 bushels of wheat. Five centuries later, in 1809, the fourteen colonists of Terzano produced 1730 bushels of wheat.
In 1821, the inhabitants of Terzano were 106, with 13 families of settlers, while in 1881, they were 132, with 18 families of settlers, who worked as many farms.
In the last century, the end of agricultural civilization would also quickly reach Terzano. With the sixties of the twentieth century the country had all its settlers and at the beginning of the next decade, the transformation of the farmhouses into private residences had been completed, not without speculation attempts which fortunately failed.
