The estate of "Lilliano" was started in the XIth century as a tower but more exact news about it were found in the XVth century. In this period it belonged to the Giannelli family and afterwards to other various families up to 1646 when it was bought by the Granduca Ferdinando II to enlarge his property of Lappeggi. From now on it will be used as the farmer house and for agricoltural purposes. It was in this very period thet the building took the present shape and was orned with fountains, lemon pots etc. In 1667 Lilliano was given together with the Lappeggi Villa, by the Granduca Cosimo III to his brother the Cardinal Francesco Maria de' Medici, who restored the estate again with the Arch. Ferri and the inside of the house was completely decorated.

In that period many important peaple came to visit Lilliano and one of them was the King of Denmark Fredrick IV in 1709. In that same year the Cardinal got married to Eleonora di Guastalla but they didn't have any children and when he died in 1711, all his properties were sold to pay his debts. After having changed several owners, Lilliano was bought in 1830 by the Malenchini family. A peasant tradition which has been handed on since generations guarantee the genuineness of the typical agricoltural products of the Colli Fiorentini: the wine is produced following the classical regulation of the "Governo alla Toscana" (D.O.C.G.), the pure genuine olive oil from first press, the seasonal peaches, the grapes (salamanna and moscato table grapes), the canaiolo, trebbiano and malvasia grapes from which we press our chianti, praised even by Redi in 1691 in his "Bacco in Toscana"...

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