 The town of Fornacette is included in the municipality of Calcinaia.Calcinaia was founded before the year 1000 on the right bank of the Arno River as "Vico Vitri", the current name being attested from 1193.At the time it was a fief of the counts of Fucecchio, later replaced by the Upezzinghi Ghibelline family of Pisa.