Palazzo Romagnoli, Forlì

The Palazzo Romagnoli – Reggiani is named after the Romagnoli family of Cesena origin, who settled in Forlì in 1806 when Lorenzo Romagnoli became prefect of the city during the French government, and the Reggiani family. Girolamo Lorenzo Reggiani married the last descendant Virginia and took the surname Reggiani Romagnoli.

The building, sold by the family in 1965 to the Municipality, was long used by the Army as the headquarters of the military district of the Province of Forlì for conscription medical visits.

The building in its current form is the result of the merging of several pre-existing real estate units, which at the time of its renovation and enhancement ordered by the Napoleonic prefect Lorenzo Romagnoli was unified into a single architectural structure.

The ceilings of the ground floor and of the noble floor, accessed from the monumental staircase, are entirely decorated in a ‘transitional’ style between Baroque and Neoclassical, partly attributable to the workshop of Felice Giani.

A short distance from the San Domenico Museums, Palazzo Romagnoli, after recent restoration, houses the 20th-century Civic Collections; in particular, the ground floor is dedicated to the permanent exhibition of the prestigious Verzocchi Collection, while on the first floor there is a selection of works including Morandi’s oils and engravings from the Righini Donation, the sculptures of Wildt linked to the figure of Raniero Paulucci de Calboli, and ‘The Great Romagna’, of painting and plastic works representative of the vast and composite 20th-century heritage of Forlì.