As you drive along the cypress tree driveway to the Villa and arrive near the well, you find in front of you the oldest part of the house which is listed on historical documents as an old country church, a 'Pieve', dated around the 1200. The facade still shows the country church features. On later papers there are only a few mentions of a “farmhouse on the Finerri hill” so we guess that possibly in the 1500s the church got converted into a farmer's house. We then learn that in 1728 the Villa had the whole U shaped plan as you see it now. We have found more details and drawings of Podere Finerri in the Catasto Leopoldino, the oldest Italian Land Registry, dated 1820 where there are more detailed drawings where the dimension of the house was the same as now and it was measured in “braccia quadre” - arms squared - as was in use at the time.