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History is a witness of the times, light of the truth, life of memory, teacher of life, messenger of the antiques.

Even today, there are places made up of ancestral memories and where the presence of history is tangible. In these places, every mountain, every hill, every little stone could tell a story. And if so, we would know of remote eras, families of the past and lost loves.
And here, in the beautiful province of Florence, in the Tuscan area known as Mugello, if we close our eyes, we can almost hear the murmur of history, that solemn whisper that crosses the Etruscan peaks and comes to us bringing with it the charm of the Middle Ages that led us to this day and that in the world made Italy and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany famous.

HISTORICAL  AND  ARTISTIC  SUMMARY
Villa The Tower, owes  his structure to the plan of the Arch. BUONTALENTI. It was built around the 1580 for OTTAVIANO OF the MEDICI, on the ruins of a guard castle, on the ancient roman Flaminia Minore road, that, from Bologna, it crossed the Apennines mountains and the Sieve river just close to the Tower Villa.
The ground floor maintains the great part of the Renaissance structure, with arches, vaults, capitals in serena stone, while the superior floors reflect the style  of restorations works  executed in the first half of XVIII  century.
From Ottaviano Medici the villa passed to the wife, Marquise Selvaggia Guasconi, whose family maintained the property until to August 1838, when the Villa was bought by the Count of Egidio Casini of Rabatta and Vespignano, the great-great-grandfather of the actual owner. He was an aristocratic man, very well known in this Tuscany’s region that is the Mugello and whose family was of great importance in the XVIII century (a lot of the country houses of Rabatta were in the co property with to the Grand Duke Medici of the Pieve of Saint Cresci in Valcava (close to Borgo S. Lorenzo village), and very dear  to the Grand Duke.
The Villa during the 1985-1991 years has been object  of a meticulous restoration that has given back all the fascination of the ancient one joined to the modern comfort.
Among the furniture there are the two great closets commissioned in the 1510 by the Cardinal Federico Cesiums, Secretary of the Pope Alexander VI Borgia;
The dinner room is dominated from two great stone made  coats of arms in: one of Lorenzo il Magnifico and the other, of Antinori Marquises, worked out by Giovanni Della Robbia.
Villa mq 700
Lemon-house sq.mt. 60 - sq.ft.645
Appartamento sq.mt. 140 - sq.ft.1,506
Attic to be restored sq.mt. 120 -  sq.ft.1,291
Private parc sq.mt. 4.000 - sq.ft.43,000
Very large parking.
Helicopters landing point.

26 rooms total + 2 cellars

12 double bedroom

2 single bedroom

Domestic staff with acquaintance of the English language and high professional level can be suggested.
Very close to the villa there is the famous  restaurant “Teatro dei Medici”. This restaurant can easily serves the guests of the villa. There it is possible to admire the ceiling with its finely carved decorated beams. In the main salon, engraved on the stone fireplace is the coat of arms of the Medici family.
In front of the villa and included on the property, there is an ancient chapel still now consecrated.