The town of Pian di Scò, in the province of Arezzo, rises at the foot of the Pratomagno massif. It has a population of 5,000 inhabitants. Besides its suggestive and unpolluted landscapes, it offers its visitors the Romanesque parish of Santa Maria and the Baroque chapel of Casabiondo.

The history of the town is strictly linked to the history of its parish that was built in the XI century. The first built-up areas rose around this sacred building, even if their closeness to the ancient track of the Cassia Vetus leads to hypothesize the presence of a previous Roman settlement from which the toponym of the chief town, connected to the cult of Jupiter, probably derived.
This area had been the upright dominion of the Pazzi from the Valdarno and of the Ubertini for three centuries, at least. Yet, at the end of the XIII century, Florence founded the "terra nuova" of Castelfranco di Sopra, a fortified village where many citizens went because they were attracted by tax exemptions. Thus, Pian di Scò joined the League of Castelfranco that was born under the Florentine aegis with the aim to contrast the great feudal lords of Arezzo and entered the Florentine Republic.
The League was suppressed only in 1774 in the ambit of the territorial reorganization of the Tuscan Grand Duchy established by Pietro Leopoldo of Lorraine. In that occasion, Pian di Scò was integrated in the "comunitas" of Castelfranco. During the Napoleonic occupation started by the French troops at the end of the XVIII century the town obtained its long coveted autonomous statute.
Therefore, the ancient village inaugurated its municipal seat in 1809 and celebrated its independence from Castelfranco. In 1866, after its integration in the Kingdom of Italy which took place in 1860, the town opened its first elementary school. Yet, its definitive territorial layout was finished in 1963 with the construction of the Castagneta road, a modern path that linked the chief town, rising at more than 300 m. a.s.l., to the valley bottom. Lastly, in 1966, the parish of Santa Maria was also restored.