the History of Montelupo

After the wars of 1312 and 1325, there followed the terrible flood of 1333, which forced the Florentine people to reorganize the township of Montelupo, and also to defend the villages which had grown up in the foothills. The new walls were finished in 1336 and are still visible for the most part.

The plague, in 1348, reduced the population in such a way that much of the space inside the walls, thanks also to the increase of ceramics production, remained often occupied by furnaces.

In the fifteenth century there developed, thanks also to the contribution of many influential citizens, the production of ceramics, which was to see its most favourable period between 1450 and 1530. »»