So how it started...The land was always very attractive to the talented people, those who were creating, transforming, and improving the quality of life by their inventions. The most significant example is that the history of the Medici family started from the valley of Mugello. The first family estate was here in Vicchio, the place where Giotto, "the father of European painting and the first of the great Italian masters", the founder of proto-Renaissance, were born.