Barberino di Mugello will give you lots of ideas to spend one or more days during your Tuscan holidays. Set in the Mugello valley, it is plunged in a wonderful natural frame that you’ll be able to explore walking around, biking or horseback-riding. Not only the natural beauties, but the artistic heritage is a strong point of the municipality. Barberino had its bloom in the XV century, under the Medici familiy: the evidences of those old splendours are now the castles, the mansions and villas in Mugello that the Medici made build. What are you waiting to go visit?

For those who are fond of nature this is the ideal place. There are many tracks that you can follow to discover the countryside around Barberino. In case the summer heat becomes unbeareable, here’s nothing better to do than go for a day to the Bilancino Lake. When you get there you’ll hardly believe that this is an artificial lake, on the contrary, with its beaches, the chance to go fishing, canoeing and windsurfing it will be a good change for the sea. Nearby the Gabbianello natural park will allow you to see this corner of nature from a closer distance.

If you want to go for a tour in the sign of art and culture there are churches, rural churches, the villas that stud the whole territory of Barberino. Among the many Medici mansions the Villa di Cafaggiolo stands out: in its apartments you’ll admire the many family portraits and those of important personages with which the Medici loved to surrond themselves. Among the churches and the little rural churches you can choose among the Pieve di San Gavino Adimari, the Roman Pieve di San Giovanni in Petroio, the Sant’Andrea a Camoggiano Church and find out the treasueres that they keep inside.