The historic home is a manor house, which has some typical characteristics of the farmhouse, located in the hamlet of Petrazzi. In this house, on August 8, 1867, General Giuseppe Garibaldi stayed overnight during his visit to Castelfiorentino, while he was trying to gather support in Tuscany for the imminent military campaign against the Papal State, which culminated as is known with a heavy defeat in Mentana. On the occasion of his visit to Castelfiorentino, the General was hosted by the owner of the Petrazzi property, Tommaso Giannini, who had distinguished himself in the recruitment campaign during the III War of Independence in 1866. The Villa was subsequently purchased in 1883 by Onorato Tinti.
It still appears today with all the characteristics of the historic residence, having preserved the atmosphere of the time intact: its nineteenth-century furnishings, a truly precious collection of relics of various types (among the most significant: photos, flags of various sizes, prints which depict the main protagonists of the national Risorgimento and the Savoy dynasty) and also some documents, including a letter that Giuseppe Garibaldi wrote on June 6, 1876 from the island of Caprera, in which he thanked the “friends of Castelfiorentino” for the sum of 246 lire (a considerable sum for the time) collected by the inhabitants of Castelfiorentino, and offered to Garibaldi. The “highlight” of the historic home is the room where General Garibaldi slept, where the same furniture has been preserved, including the bed.
