The town of Bucine is sin the Valdambra in the province of Arezzo at 207 m. a.s.l. of altitude and it has a population of about 9,000 inhabitants. The parish of Galatrona, a building in Romanesque style, the parish of Sant' Apollinare that was built in 1581, and the Castle of Galatrona can be admired here.

Its halfway position between Florence, Arezzo and Siena transformed Bucine into a lively and strategically important centre since the first settlements in the Roman times and, still more, in the Middle Ages, a time when the village was harshly disputed among many local seigniories and by the most important cities struggling among them. In the XIII century, the Counts of Modigliana represented the main authority in the territory; yet, already in 1225, they went under the protection of Arezzo.
The upper part of the modern town, instead, belonged to the Ubertini of Chitignano, but also the Abbey of Santa Maria d'Agnano and the Tarlati family boasted their dominion and privileges on Bucine. The latter were those who eventually got possession of the castle of Bucine, which they took away from the Guidi with force in 1325. Yet, these disputes between local nobles ended with the growth of the Florentine Republic in the area which annexed numerous territories, including Bucine that was taken over and transformed into a town hall in 1335.
Once it constituted a League, the "League of Valdambra", the town hall supported Florence in its campaign to take possession of the Ubertini's properties which were conquered between the XIV and the XV century. While it was under the Medicean Grand Duchy, Bucine was transformed into a marquisate and Ferdinando II (1645) ceded it as a feud to the Vitelli family, an investiture that also the Hapsburg-Lorraine confirmed later.
One more transformation took place during the Napoleonic occupation, when the French instituted the Kingdom of Etruria in Tuscany. The marquisate of Bucine became one of the "mairies" of the Department of the Arno's Prefecture and included in the District of Arezzo. After the fall of Napoleon and the Restoration sanctioned by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Bucine was incorporated again in the Grand Duchy and this time it obtained the status of town hall of the Bucine Valdambra. It was a huge territorial unity that incorporated the territories of 24 towns in Arezzo. This also explains the current remarkable extension of today's borders.