The town of Montespertoli lies between the Val di Pesa and the Valdelsa in the province of Florence at 257 m asl. It has a population of about 11,000 inhabitants and it is possible to visit the Museum of Sacred Art inside the Parish of San Piero in Mercato, where the "Madonna col Bambino", attributed to Filippo Lippi, can be admired.

The territory of this town was certainly inhabited in the Etruscan times and it was an important centre on the commercial way called Volterrana linking Florence to Siena and to Volterra and crossing the area of Montespertoli. Since the Volterrana way joined the way of the pilgrims going to Rome from northern Europe, the first mansions started to be raised in the Early Middle Ages, such as the Castello degli Ormanni, near Montegufoni, that was destroyed by the Florentines in 1135.
Lucardo is another ancient built-up area raised in the territory of Montespertoli and it was the base of a "comitatus" created when the Lombards came. There was also an important castle and its medieval structure can is still visible today. First it belonged to the Cadolingi and then to the Alberti and was within the jurisdiction of Florence in 1203. Its artistic patrimony is represented by the church of San Martino and San Giusto dating to 1093 and by a board depicting the "Madonna e il Bambino in trono tra is SS. Pietro, Martino, Giusto e Giovanni Battista" attributed to Raffaello Botticini.
After the destruction of the castle, Gugliarello Acciaioli di Brescia went to live in Montegufoni where he bought many lands. The history of Montespertoli and its territory was indissolubly linked to this family. On the 12th of September, 1310, namely one-hundred and fifty years later, Niccolò Acciaioli, the High Seneschal of the Kingdom of Naples, was born here. The Acciaioli family dominated this area for a long time and left evidences of their presence giving the Church of san Lorenzo numerous works of art, such as the Crucifix by the Florentine painter Taddeo Gaddi dating to the first half of the XIV century.
At the beginning of the XVII century, the Usibardi family bought the goods of the Acciaoli, thus causing a change in rulers. The Acciaioli grew so attached to this territory that they tried to recover their properties. Donato Aciaioli succeeded in it at the end of the century and he took control back of his ancestors' area and began a new period of splendour and wealth in the whole land. In the XVI century, the free town of Montespertoli became a town hall, but it had to wait the year 1839 to reach its current territorial dimension. Besides housing an important Museum of Sacred Art, it is also a place surrounded by wooded hills constituted of the accumulation of sea sediments and unpolluted lands, which are ideal for excursions along the adequately signposted trekking paths.