Cerreto Guidi

Cerreto Guidi sits in a landscape of rolling hills, dominated by traditional vineyards and olive groves. Visiting this countryside, looked after over the centuries and dotted with farmhouses, villas and churches, is a way of seeing the Tuscan landscape anew and at its most typical.
 
The earliest historical documentation dates to 780 and refers to Cerreto in Greti, as it was known as the time. This name remained in use until 1079, when the name Cerreto Guidi was adopted due to the arrival of the Guidi Counts, who built one of their castles here. In 1085, their power became merely nominal, given that the town has passed under the rule of the Florentine Republic, while in 1273 Cerreto became attached to Florence’s fortunes once and for all.