The town of Scandicci goes from the Arno river to the Val di Pesa. It is near Florence and it has a population of about 50,000 inhabitants.

Founded in the Roman times, Scandicci has the Abbey of San Salvatore a Settimo, the Church of Santa Maria a Greve and the Church of San Bartolo as its most important buildings from a historical and artistic point of view. Yet, also the Castle of the Acciaiolo and the Villa Arcipresso, where the famous writer David Herbert was born, are worth visiting.
Numerous places in Scandicci have kept their Latin toponyms. Some examples are Badia a Settimo, Mosciano and Giogoli that derive from Septimus, Mussianum and Jugulum, respectively. The name Scandicci itself probably derived from the term "scandere", that is "to go up", referring to Scandicci Alto, which can be reached by climbing a hill. Therefore, the Roman presence is documented and, besides, the numerous finds dating to the late Hellenic time (between the III and the I century B.C.) lead to hypothesize that this place was a very busy trading place.
Nonetheless, despite its ancient origins, the history of this town only seemed to start in 1774, when the reform by Leopold created a "comunitas" that gathered the leagues of Casellina e Torri, Scandicci's old name. In 1865, the territory was further enlarged with the acquisition of part of the community belonging to the now disappeared Legnaia (more precisely, Cintoia, Marignolle and some parts of San Quirico and of Soffiano). Before that time, the various orders that followed one after the other in the Abbey of San Salvatore a Settimo administered the activities of the territory since the Early Middle Ages until the XVIII century.
Between 1869 and 1897, the construction of the Palazzo Comunale was carried out and the current urban fabric started to appear with the realization of the Piazza Piave, in 1876, and of the Piazza Matteotti in 1879. instead, the Piazza Marconi was born in 1929, when the course of the Greve river was modified. Because of these works, carried out for security reasons, some places in Scandicci became part of Florence again.
In the 60's, Scandicci lived an authentic economic and demographical boom that brought the number of inhabitants from 18000 to 41000 in ten years' time. This was mainly due to the development of the industrial area caused in part by the growth of new businesses and in part by the displacement of numerous plants in the territory. Beyond any doubt, Scandicci also benefited from its closeness to a great historical centre as Florence and from the construction of the new "del Sole" Highway.