Borgo San Lorenzo, Province of Firenze, Tuscany, Italy, is located 27 km from Florence, this is the main centre among the 9 communes of the Mugello, a green hilly area where the Sieve river flows, already civilized in Etruscan times and later one of the privileged possessions of Florence.
The Medici family originated here, as well as great artists as Giotto and Beato Angelico and architects worked to strengthen the 9 boroughs, called the "terre murate".
A roman settlement, Annejanum, existed in the place, and it became in the early Middle Ages a fiefdom of the Ubaldini family. In the mid-10th century it came under the rule of the Florentine bishops, against whom rebelled in 1273, and after that became a free commune.
In 1351 it was surrounded by walls, of which two gates are extant, the Porta Fiorentina and the Porta dell'Orologio. From the Renaissance onwards (1569 to 1859) it was included in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany until the latter became part of the Kingdom of Italy, soon after the Second War of Italian Independence. In 1906 the Chini family established the San Lorenzo ceramics laboratory.
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