The Villa di Bibbiani is a complex certified by the Associazione Dimore Storiche Italiane. It makes part of an estate that includes a wide territory between Capraia alla Castellina of Limite and the Arno banks near the Colli di Pulignano.

As many others in the municipal zone, also this area has been inhabited since the VI century B.C. In effect, this estate is close to the Etruscan settlement of Montereggi, discovered around the first half of the 60's and considered one of the biggest in the Arno's area. Therefore, the villa originated from an Etruscan ancient settlement that the Lombards populated later. In effect, it is known that they inhabited this area until the IX century, at least. The first property known belonged to Gundoaldo, the Lombard king Desiderius's doctor.
In 767, Bibbiani was ceded to the Monastery of San Bartolomeo in Pistoia. The parish of San Jacopo a Pulignano enriched the hilly part of the estate in the XII century. In the XVII century, the pope Eugene IV gave the estate to the Canons of the Lateran of Lucca by means of a bull. Until that period, this structure had kept the characteristics of a medieval complex.
Only in the XVI century, the Frescobaldi, a Florentine family who bought the estate, transformed the Villa into a real residence. In this period a still almost visible wall was also raised to separate Bibbiani from the "Barco Reale", the game reserve belonging to the Grand Duke Cosimo de' Medici. Instead, the marquis Cosimo Ridolfi added the "Romantic park" surrounding the villa in the XVIII century. He bought the estate and transformed it into an authentic horticulture school-laboratory and he mainly spent his time in cultivating vines.
In the first years of the XIX century, a botanical collection of plants coming from all around the world, stone ornaments, statues and fountains further enriched Villa Bibbiani. In the first half of the XX century, the estate was further beautified thanks to the Venetian Franchetti family who carried out the stables in a new-Gothic style. In 1944, the Villa and the park were restored after being damaged in one of the two world wars.