The town of Lorenzana is a small town in the province of Pisa with a population of about 1000 inhabitants. It is set at 127 m. of altitude and it offers its visitors the wonderful sight of the Pisan hills and of numerous medieval architectures to be discovered.

In effect, the church of the saints Bartolomeo and Cristoforo built in the XIII century and the Palace of the Lorenzi, the ancient base of the local town hall that later became a residence, can be visited in the town. In the surroundings, numerous centuries-old farm-villas such as Villa Scotti, Villa Giuli and Villa Sforni, that has a small Romanesque church near it, are set.
The name of the town gave life to the medieval toponym "laurentius" and it belonged to the Archbishopric of Pisa until the X century, the time of the most ancient documents that testify its existence. More information can be found in a bull that Pope Innocent II issued in 1131. The main sources for the local subsistence were agriculture (vines, oil, fruits and cereals) and the woods around the small town that were precious in the Middle Ages because it supplied timber and game.
Just like other villages in the Pisan countryside, in 1406 Lorenzana was annexed to the Florentine Republic, destined to become the Tuscan Grand Duchy where the Medici of Florence would have exercised their power. Ten years later, it issued its own statutes together with the nearby village of Crespina. The inhabitants of Lorenzana often tried to rebel against the Florentine power but in vain.
The first time they tried was in 1431 in the wake of the enthusiasm raised by the arrival of the Milanese led by Niccolò Piccinino. Their second try took place when Pisa organized new military manoeuvres with the support of the emperor Massimiliano I and it failed in 1494. Nevertheless from the XVI century on, the village belonged to Florence definitively.
In 1722, Lorenzana became a county and was ceded as a feud to the Florentine nobleman Francesco Lorenzi. The dynasty lasted for a very short time and in 1783 the territory was given back to the Grand Duke who decided to give it the status of an autonomous "comunitas" and, as such, it entered the Kingdom of Italy on the wake of the plebiscites issued in all the villages of Tuscany in 1860. Today, industry has substituted agriculture as the main source of income even if farming lands replaced part of the ancient woods a long time ago.