Pergine Valdarno

Pergine Valdarno including rises in a hilly system to separate the valley of the Arno from the Chiana, to be connected to the land of Chianti and Siena through a corridor created by the natural water catchment areas of rivers and Scerfio Ambra. In the eleventh century castle was built already mentioned in the early decades of 1000, when it was owned by Badia Prataglia. Later it became the domain of power Fiorentino. In succession in 1568 Cosimo I de 'Medici put under its control the five communities that made up the territory of the abbey, then Badia di Agnano, Migliari, Montozzi, San Pancrazio and Pergine. Mainly its economy was based on agricultural sources: in the highest areas outweighed the woods and pastures, lower replaced by olive trees, fruit trees, vines and then flat from cereals, corn, legumes, was the largest of mulberry cultivation .