Villa di Meleto, Renaissance villa in Castelfiorentino, Tuscany, Italy.

Villa di Meleto is a Renaissance villa in the hamlet of Meleto, near Castelfiorentino in the province of Florence. Its central block dates from the 16th century, with an 18th-century addition decorated with trompe-l'œil frescoes. The facade, open to the outside with no central courtyard, is divided into two identical symmetrical halves by a central ground-floor opening and the family coat of arms above; a slightly off-axis belvedere turret breaks the symmetry at the top. The south facade bears the Ridolfi coat of arms impaled with that of the Medici.

Meleto is first recorded in Florence's 1260–1265 estimate of Guelph damages, when a house and a tower there were destroyed. In 1569 the estate passed by inheritance to the Ridolfi family, who held it until 1944; the central block dates from the 16th century, with a 18th-century addition. In 1944 it passed to the Ghelli Luserna di Rorà marquises, and in 2020 it was bought by Carmencita Bua.

The name Meleto comes from the rio Meleto, the stream at the northern foot of the hill. The estate is also known as the seat of Italy's first agricultural school, founded here in 1834 by Marquis Cosimo Ridolfi and moved to Pisa in 1843. In the garden look for the Ridolfi coat of arms flanked by the Medici emblem on the south facade.

The villa stands on a hill left of the Elsa, reached by a long cypress avenue that ends at the Church of Santa Croce, once the Ridolfi chapel and restored in 1920. The grounds lie in the Meleto locality of Castelfiorentino, in the province of Florence, not Certaldo. The surrounding clay soils of the Valdelsa hold marine and marsh fossils in the tufa.

The soil around the villa is marine in origin, like some valleys of the northern Apennines: marine and marsh fossils can be found in the tufa. At the end of the 20th century the Accademia dei Georgofili reclaimed nearby land using techniques studied by Cosimo Ridolfi, which helped restore vineyard cultivation in the Valdelsa.