In a report issued by the local Building Authority La Scheggia is defined “an important and rare rural complex dating back to the XVIth century.

It is an example of the Grand-Ducal Age and heritage of the rule of the Barbolani Counts consisting of a typical walled villa, surrounded by a few secondary houses whose construction integrates the remains of the pre-existing fourteenth-century building, with a small fenced cemetery adjoined to it and a cemetery chapel of the XIVth century (church of Saint Biagio of La Scheggia)”. After most of the locals moved to the town, la Scheggia turned its vocation from agriculture to tourism. The restoration of the village, supported the Building Authority of Arezzo, embodies the new trend: a kind of tourism aimed at interpreting the features of the territory.