Carmignano

History

Carmignano was mentioned for the first time in a document of 998. It then became fortified as stronghold of the frontier of the Pistoia borders, provoking the ambitions of Prato and Firenze who tried more than once to take it from Pistoia; this was achieved by Firenze in 1228 and the victors imposed the destruction of the walls and the tower, which among other things were newly erected during the XIII century.
In 1301 Charles de Valois, sent as peace maker to Firenze, gave Carmignano to his man of trust the banker Musciatto Franzesi, already Lord of Staggia. He in turn sold it to Firenze in 1306 on the occasion of the Capitalisation of Pistoia, but in 1314 the Carmignanese managed by their own will to return under the government of Pistoia, and then asked to again become part of the Fiorentino county in 1325.

The castle was retaken by Florence after an extremely hard battle in 1328. From then on it was definitively part of the Florence State.
In the communal territory one must also mention Comeana, an ancient Etruscan settlement. Artimino was an important Etruscan centre probably destroyed by the troops of Silla, then in the Medieval a well populated fortified centre.