Museums - Borgo San Lorenzo

The Museum of country life "Casa d'Erci"

The Museo della Civiltà Contadina “Casa d’Erci” (museum of country life) is housed in a farmhouse in Grezzano village.
It contains a considerable collection of typical material evidence of farming and rural life in the Mugello.

The visitor will find many past activities well illustrated: as well as those pertaining to agriculture, there are those connected with spinning, weaving and washing clothes, crafts practised by countrymen and the various skills of the carpenter, cartwright, cooper, shoemaker, blacksmith and bricklayer.
The indoor replicas of a countryman’s home such as the bedroom, the cellar and the kitchen, are worth seeing.

Outside there is a history-nature trail which shows the typical vegetation of the area and the change in the agricultural-forest landscape.

We also suggest a visit to the nearby Faini Mill where traditional millstones are still used in a water mill.