The town of Cantagallo is in the province of Prato at 423 m. of altitude and it has a population of about 3000 inhabitants. The XIII-century church of San Biagio and the "Acquerino Santagallo" Natural Reserve can be admired in the town. Not far from here, there is the suggestive Fortress of Cerbaia.

The town of Cantagallo rises near a series of mountain reliefs that have hidden and protected it through the epochs and they have also emarginated it from the historical events that interested its neighbouring centres. In effect, there is not much information about the village. It is said that it was dominated by a feudatories' faction composed of the Counts of Vernio's vassals until the late Middle Ages. We know that Cantagallo also issued its autonomous statutes around 1271.
Differently from the centre that gives its name to the town, Luicciana, that is Cantagallo's current chief town, was administered by Pistoia and became the base of the town hall of the Val di Bisenzio, where there is the imposing fortress of Cerbaia.
Trebbio is another place in Cantagallo and it once was the seat of a parish depending upon the Episcopal curia of Bologna. Trebbio was later at the centre of a long battle between Pistoia and the State of the Church for its possession. At the time of the Grand Duchy, it was also the customs in the area bordering with the Emilia region.
Once it was absorbed into the Kingdom of Italy, the town of Cantagallo dearly paid its closeness to the Gothic Line. It was the front where the Nazi-Fascists and the allied troops fought. In 1944, the bombardments severely damaged many of its centres.