Agliana

First inhabited in Roman times, this town stands along the Via Cassia, which connected Florence, Pistoia, and Lucca. Today it is one of the Chocolate Valley’s main centres with the workshop-sales outlet of Roberto Catinari who, in 1974, launched his chocolatier business in Tuscany after working in Switzerland for twenty years. Not to be missed: The former hospice complex in Spedalino Asnelli, with the exterior of its Romanesque church covered in terracotta, and the ancient Church of San Niccolò, renovated in a 17th-century style.