Greve is a market town deep in Chianti, in the Chianti Classico wine-growing area. It has a somewhat unusual triangular piazza lined with porticoes, still busy, and a church dedicated to the Santa Croce and which contains a triptych by Bicci di Lorenzo.

The Museo di Arte Sacra has opened in the former convent of San Francesco and houses paintings, sculptures, vestments and liturgical furnishings all of which point to the artistic nature of Greve.

Greve is surrounded by beautiful villages, such as Montefioralle with its stone houses and paved streets, and Panzano close to which is the wonderful Romanesque church of San Leolino, complete with a five-arch 16th-century portico. Castles to dominate the region and have changed in modern times from fortresses to sumptuous and elegant residences or famous estates - names such as Uzzano, Verrazzano, Vicchiomaggio and Vignamaggio (where da Vinci's Mona Lisa was born).

Nearby Monte San Michele is, at 892m, the highest peak in Chianti.