Vaglia

The Vaglia area has been populated since distant times, settled by the Magelli Ligurian tribes and the Etruscans prior to Roman rule. In the Middle Ages villages appeared that revolved around the earliest parish churches like San Pietro, which is when the urban structure began to be developed that is still found here today. The area, governed by a bishop since the fourteenth century, with the development of municipalities, moved under Florentine rule and was included as part of the Santa Maria Novella neighborhood and under the Lega di Tagliaferro with bordering towns such as San Piero a Sieve. Barely a century later, in 1551, the league was grouped with the vicariate of Scarperia and the fate of Vaglia followed those of the great families that reigned in Florence, including the Medici, until a French government was established in the area.