The Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum is located in the suggestive setting of Villa Mimbelli. The aristocratic villa was built by the architect Vincenzo Micheli between 1865 and 1875 on commission of the wealthy merchant Francesco Mimbelli and his wife Enrichetta Rodocanacchi. Initially, the villa, inhabited since 1868, was surrounded by a park of modest size, but in 1871 it was enlarged with the acquisition of further land; moreover, near his residence, Mimbelli had a large two-storey building erected to use as a grain deposit. The museum was inaugurated in 1994 in the presence of the then President of the Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro. The museum houses a rich collection of paintings by Giovanni Fattori and other Macchiaioli and postmacchiaioli.