Badia Fiorentina - "Florentine Abbey" - abbey and church. The abbey was founded in 978 by the mother of the Margrave of Tuscany Hugo di Tuscany. Thanks to the many gifts and privileges granted by popes and emperors, the abbey acquired or inherited many adjacent plots of land. The main activity in the territory controlled by Badia Fiorentina was the production, binding and sale of books and parchment. In 1285 the Romanesque church of the monastery underwent a radical reconstruction in the Gothic style under the leadership of Arnolfo di Cambio.→