English section – The “Castellaccio” – Villa “Mengazza” – Villa “Orestina”

The “Castellaccio”

Walking back to Faenza, along Castel Raniero street, you can see a group of buildings disposed on different levels. They rise on an area called “Castellaccio”. Probably, in this zone, there was the Castrum Raynieri (a castle called “Castel Raniero”).

Villa “Mengazza”

This nineteenth-century building presents a particular double facade, or rather a surface modulated from four pilasters accost to a bit taller behind wall. Internally the villa is decorated form a pictorial apparatus made with a wonderful neoclassic stile.

Villa “Mengazza”

Villa “Orestina”

The villa’s name probably comes from the toponym of the estate that was managed from the Jesuit Father Oreste. The first project foresaw only the central body of the building, but during the nineteenth century the two lateral wings were added. During the postwar period the villa became property of the engineer Dino Bubani, wich made it restored between 1950 and 1962. After his dead this building became property of his wife Alba Ghetti Bubani that in memory of his husband donate, in 1998, the villa to the municipality of Faenza.

Villa “Agnesina”