Poggio A Caiano

Poggio A Caiano

The village of Poggio a Caiano is part of the province of Prato at the base of Montalbano. The derivation of the name seems to come from the name "hill" and the word Caius or its gens Caia. Among the most visited monuments we can find the Villa Medici original end of the fifteenth century, commissioned by Lorenzo the Magnificent. Among the other monuments we can find, the teams Medici, the church of San Francesco a Bonistallo. On this hill Lorenzo de Medici did you build one of his houses, still dominant element of the territory. Starting from the tenth century the zone of Poggio was property of Auditors Cadalindi of Fucecchio and monks Olivetans of Pistoia. The land then passed to the family of Pistoia of Clerks who built a castle in a place then called Amber. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth century Poggio a Caiano was known as the river port of Prato, to start up a business that took place away from the river stretch dell'Ombrone connecting through the Arno river, the basin with Prato and Pistoia the ports of Pisa and Livorno. In 1431 Cosimo de Medici had bought six farms in the area. His grandson Lorenzo the Magnificent, as well as buy all the surrounding farms and initiate the building of the Villa, he devoted himself to a large funnel work and remaking the bed of the river Ombrone and rationalization of agricultural activities in farms north of the river. Through the large work managed to create a first household in the country. Many craftsmen moved in these lands because dell'abbondante work, thus creating the village of Poggio a Caiano. The territory is an industrial center, made up predominantly by small businesses, mainly craft.

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