The town of Terranuova Bracciolini is in the province of Arezzo and it has a population of about 11000 inhabitants. The churches of San Donato and of San Biagio can be admired here. As its name suggests, the town is one of the "new lands" founded by Florence in the XVI century.

Terranuova, together with Castelfranco and San Giovanni, was one of the first big garrisons of the Valdarno. The Florentines had created these garrisons in the ambit of their conquest and annexation operations of the Arezzo's country.
Terranuova Bracciolini was founded in 1337 with the name of Castel Santa Maria in Ganghereto, in a territory near the river Arno and next to a stream called Ciuffenna. This portion of Arezzo's land had previously belonged to the Ubertini family, one of the three most important feudatory seigniories in the Arezzo's rural area.
The Florentines had stormed and razed to the ground the castle of the Ubertini that overlooked on the future area of Terranuova. This town lived the modern times included in the Tuscan Grand Duchy, until this Lorraine-led state was annexed to the Kingdom of Italy in 1860.
A royal decree in 1862 definitively established the town's name. To the toponym "Terranuova" the name "Bracciolini" was added, in honour of its illustrious citizen and thinker Giovanni Francesco Poggio Bracciolini. He was born in Terranuova in 1380 and he was an important historian and a humanist and one of the main figures of the Florentine Renaissance. He devoted his life to study, he was an amanuensis and a diplomat and he was very busy on behalf of the Holy See during the Protestant Schism. Bracciolini was famous for his invectives that he used to hurl from the pages of his writings during the great disputes between him and his contemporaries.