The town of Laterina is in the province of Arezzo at 240 m. a.s.l. of altitude and it has a population of 3,000 inhabitants. The ancient Medieval towers and the church of the Sainta Ippolito and Cassiano can be admired while visiting the town. In the immediate surroundings of Laterina, Villa Monsoglio, a construction of Roman origins, rises.

The territory was interested by human settlements both in the Etruscan times, as the finds discovered near Impiano show, and in the Augustan times, near the modern parish of the Saints Ippolito and Cassiano. The local place name itself could have derived from the Latin word "later" or "lateris", which means "brick" and underlines the importance of the ancient clay quarries from where the material was extracted and worked with the aid of furnaces for producing bricks.
Instead, the news of the medieval village is traced back to the XI century, approximately, at the time of the first process of construction of castles in villages that people running away from the unsafe valleys too much exposed to bandits and other undisciplined troops started to crowd. In particular, the "castrum" of Laterina was particularly attractive for its closeness to the new track that crossed the Valdarno.
At the end of the XIII century, Laterina entered the dominions of Arezzo, governed by a powerful bishopric, that transformed the town into a fortified village to block the progression of the Florentine Guelphs in the Valdarno and gave the Ubertini the task to administer it. Yet, in 1288, the they had already lost the town besieged by the Florentines troops. Ten years later, the representatives of the Republic provided for the further fortification of the village, but in 1304 the Ubertini succeeded into occupying it again and gave it back to Arezzo.
After the division of the diocese of Arezzo in several vicariates, the basis of one of these was set in Laterina that, therefore, housed many outstanding political figures from both Florence and Rome in the XIV century. Yet, in the first half of the century, the town underwent the attack from the bishop of Arezzo who had entered into conflict with the Ubertines. They called the Florentines to help them after they had repaired the damage of the assault and ceded the village to Florence. On 5 November, 1384, the ultimate battle between Florence and Arezzo took place just in Laterina, with Florence winning with the help of the troops sent here by the king of France.
At the time of the Lorraine, in the XVIII century, the District of the Valdambra, from where the town later detached to enter the Town Hall of Montevarchi, substituted the vicariate of Laterina. In 1774, thanks to the reforms brought about by the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, Laterina finally earned itself the status of autonomous town and, as such, it entered the Kingdom of Italy in 1860.