The name Tavarnelle derives from Tabernulae and would seem to indicate the village as a place to stop by one of the smaller roads that connected the Francigenan street to Volterrana street.
Presence of a place of refreshment is confirmed by the land register of 1427, while it appears that in 1454 such Giulio Francesco Riccio - Baldi was the owner of a house with an adjoining inn called the Lion's Tavern.
Since then, the mid-nineteenth century is active a stop for the government postillions on the Roman royal road that connected Florence to Rome.
