The bags and leathers of the great luxury houses are largely born here: Scandicci is the world capital of high-end leatherworking, a district of workshops and schools — MITA trains tomorrow's masters — working in Florence's elegant shadow. The tramway reaches the Florentine centre in twenty minutes.
The restored Acciaiolo castle with its gardens and the hill of San Martino alla Palma recall that Tuscan countryside starts immediately here. The thousand-year-old Badia di Settimo is the monument you don't expect among the sheds of craftsmanship.
Near Scandicci
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
