Tuscany Culture Bed and Breakfast, apartment for Holiday in Tuscany Tuscany Rural culture.The first rural buildings were built during the introduction of the mezzadria system (sharecropping) in the XIII, XIV and XV century, in the area of Florence, Siena, Arezzo and Pistoia. The mezzadria was a contract between the farmer and the Landlord, where the farmer shared the harvest with him. The mezzadria was associated, in this part of Tuscany, with growth of large, consolidated farms known as poderi. The podere was characterised by an extension of lands of a medium size cultivated with cereals, the vineyards, the olive groves and fruit trees.