The town of Dicomano is in the province of Florence and is one of the traditional trade lands in Tuscany. It is set at 162 m. of altitude near the Apennine and it overlooks the Mugello and the Val di Sieve. It has a population of about 5,000 inhabitants.

Dicomano's favourable position and its closeness to the main tracks lead to hypothesize that the human presence in this area started in Prehistory. Yet, the Etruscans were the population that build what is known as "Castrum Decumani" in Latin, namely a fortified village with bridges and towers. Also a Roman military garrison was set near it.
The small town that developed in this place was crossed by an important road that leads to Forum Livii (Forlė) and that was dismantled at the time of the Barbarian invasions in the peninsula.
In the Middle Ages, the village continued to thrive in any aspect thanks to its position that precociously transformed it into a crossroads for the caravans of merchants who traded between the Romagna region and Tuscany and that used the "Way of the Wheat" to supply Florence. The city soon understood it and in the republican period it drove away the feudatories of Dicomano, destroyed the castles of Belforte and of Pozzo and got possession of the territory.
In the XIV century, an important shipyard that supplied Pisa and Livorno was born on the Sieve river and it was active for more than four hundred years. In the XV century, Dicomano became more and more important and it became a vicariate. Yet, it was with the arrival of the Lorraine in Tuscany that the local economy had a strong development. The creation of the new Forlivese road, which was planned and built between 1824 and 1859, increased the traffics along the Tuscany-Romagna axe benefiting the merchants of Dicomano.
Today, the town is still part of this industrial and commercial fabric, but it is also a remarkable agricultural centre that produces olive oil, wine, A.O.C. meat and chestnuts.
The territory of Dicomano houses numerous centuries-old buildings, such as the Neoclassical Oratory of Sant'Onofrio and the Romanesque Church of Pieve Santa Maria where some works by Vasari and Bronzino are kept. In the town of Frascole, moreover, one can visit an important archaeological site made up of the remains of the ancient Romanesque church of San Martino al Poggio and of an Etruscan building and some finds dating from the VI century B.C. to the I century A.D. Among them, there was a precious funeral stele with a "fiesolano" style.