Vignalla preserves the characteristics of a medieval fortress with battlements (now blinded) atop a tall and squared building; the arches of a porch can be seen at the front of the building and the back features oval windows, also blinded.
This old noble house belonged to the Da Uzzano family who sold it in the fifteenth century to Tommaso Sacchetti. From documents of the time (1426), probably because the sale deeds were not regular, we know that the building returned to its former owners, who kept it until the sixteenth century. In the cartography of 1500 it is referred to as “Vignialla”, while in that of 1774 it is called “Case dell’Uguccioni”. Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it belonged to the Bartolini Baldelli and then passed to the Guiducci, but by then it had been reduced to little more than a barn. Later it was acquired by the Batacchi farm.
Until the middle of last century, the complex, which also includes the farmhouse on the right side of the road, has played host to four families who worked as many farms, all named Vignalla and numbered in order from one to four. The matchmaker also lived in this village and had a small farm at his disposal.
High on a corner of the farmhouse adjacent to the farm Vignalla III is a small shrine called “Madonna del Latte”, a porcelain white high relief on a blue background: the work comes from an eighteenth-century Doccia manufacture model.
