Villa Le Corazze rises halfway up and dominates the valley Borro Tommasino (Torrente Rimaggio) below, with a beautiful landscape in which the Dome of the Duomo in Florence also clearly sticks out.
Originally, the villa was a noble house of the Bardi family; in 1427 it belonged to the Baldini and a few years later, in 1466, they sold it to Jacopa, the widow of Michele del Corazza. From the Corazza family, who owned it until the sixteenth century, derived the name ‘Le Corazze’ which still indicates the villa.
It then belonged to the Albertini who then sold it in 1633 to the children of the Marquis Vincenzo Bartolini-Baldelli. In 1864 the building passed, by inheritance, to the Guiducci. Until the first half of the last century the villa included a farm which administered 7 smaller ones.
The villa also has an oratory next to it erected, probably, by the Bartolini-Baldelli family. The chapel is dedicated to Sant’Anna (Saint Anne) who, in the wall above the altar, is represented with San Giovacchino (Saint Joachim) and the Virgin Mary. In the nineteenth century the oratory was a private chapel for public use: numerous parish functions were held, there were station processions and the Celebration of St. Anne also took place there. Inside the oratory is buried Gaetano Bartolini-Baldelli, an enlightened nobleman, who for several years was Gonfalonier/Mayor of Bagno a Ripoli.
