Villa l'Arcipresso (or villa Mirenda) is a villa located in the town of Scandicci.
The oldest news refers to 1688 when it passed from Tanagli to Scapella. In 1749 the property was owned by Benedetto Caccini and later (1755) by Antonio Sigismondo Vinci. In the mid-nineteenth century it was the turn of Galletti and then of the Mirenda.
The villa is located near the Church of Sant'Andrea in Mosciano; near the villa is a farmhouse with a tabernacle in majolica. In the garden in front of the villa there are several kinds of trees, in front of the villa there is a well. The appearance is eighteenth-century parallelepiped-shaped and with two-story development with different types of windows. Spacious and ground-planed, smaller and open on the upper floor. The entrance door is protected by a cast iron canopy dating back to the early 1900s. At the central entrance, there is a turret on the roof.
In the villa between 1926 and 1927, the English writer David Herbert Lawrence stayed with his wife and here wrote one of the most discussed debates of all time "Lady Chatterley's Lover."
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