Castello di Torregalli, Baroque castle in Florence, Italy

Castello di Torregalli stands on Via di Scandicci at the foot of the hills between the Arno and the Greve. Its core is a stone tower with a fifteenth-century courtyard, around which Giacomo di Filippo de' Nerli added a five-bay Renaissance loggia with Corinthian capitals, completed in 1532. The battlements were rebuilt in medieval style in 1868.

The castle, called Fezzano or il Cantone, was recorded in the 1427 catasto as a podere with palagio owned by Francesco di Filippo de' Nerli. In 1623 the Nerli sold it to the Galli counts of Prato for 6,711 scudi, who gave it the name Torre Galli. In 1868 Count Paolo Gentile Farinola rebuilt the battlements and added a chapel by Luigi del Moro.

The main hall displays frescoes showing pastoral love scenes inspired by literary works. These paintings were created during a major renovation in the early 1600s.

The property sits on Via di Scandicci and opens its gardens and decorated halls to visitors on specific days each month. Plan ahead since access is limited to scheduled times.

A historical inventory from 1714 records that the gardens once featured statues of nymphs and decorative fountains. Today only fragments of this former embellishment remain visible.