Pracchia is a mountain hamlet in the municipality of Pistoia, nestled in a narrow, deep valley crossed by the Reno River.

The village’s history and development have always been closely linked to agriculture and pastoralism, to the production of natural ice, and to ironworking—traditional activities of the Pistoiese Mountains, and, above all, to the construction of the Porrettana Railway, the first trans, Apennine railway line.