san gervasio

San Gervasio

San Gervasio is an hamlet of the community of Palaia, it is part of the province of Pisa.

HISTORY

Even today San Gervasio show the medieval structure of the hamlet.

The bishops of Lucca had the ownership of castle, so the castle was conquered by the Republic of Pisa, but in 1436 the castle was conquered by Florence. In the following centuries the hamlet saw the presence of many noble families of Florence like Rucellai’s family…

With regard to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, it belonged to Lucca, since the 1622 when the parish church and the territory was annexed by the diocese of San Miniato. During the 1700s, the castle was transformed to a farm Villa, it achieve a full prosperity and an excellent industriousness in the mid-1800s until the first decade of 1900s.

The ownership switched to Montano’s family.It started a progressive decline of the castle and than it culminated in the past century. Since the 1960s, the estate and the entire business territory belong to Tommasini’s family.