A dense crown of cypress trees almost hides the Valcelli villa built over three floors and dominated by a small tower. The building was restored at the end of the last century, losing all traces of the ancient palace of the Peruzzi.
In 1427, the villa belonged to a Niccolò di Cante Peruzzi. In later centuries it would be “transferred”, in other words, sold for life to rich and illustrious Florentine families. Since 1563 a Lorenzo di Galeotto dei Medici lived there. In 1568 it was sold to the Corbinelli family. From the seventeenth century, the Peruzzi kept it for their own use.
In 1900 a court awarded the villa to Baron Franchetti as creditor of the Commander Cosimo Peruzzi. The baron carried out the radical restoration, designed by the architect Boccini, who gave the villa the vaguely Renaissance style that it still retains. The complex included a large estate divided into seven farms administered by a farmer up to the sixties of the last century.
