Romagnoli Palace

The Palazzo Romagnoli - Reggiani takes its name from the Romagnoli family of Cesena origin, who settled in Forlì from 1806 when Lorenzo Romagnoli became prefect of the city during the French government, and from the Reggiani family. Girolamo Lorenzo Reggiani married the last descendant Virginia and assumed the surname of Reggiani Romagnoli. The building, sold by the family in 1965 to the Municipality, has long been used by the army to house the military district of the Province of Forlì for the medical examination. The building in its current form is the result of the unification of several pre-existing building units which, at the time of its restructuring and valorization ordered by the Napoleonic prefect Lorenzo Romagnoli, was unified into a single architectural structure. The ceilings of the ground floor and those of the main floor, which can be accessed from the monumental staircase, are entirely decorated in a style of 'transition' between the baroque and the neoclassical, partly due to the workshop of Felice Giani. A few steps from the San Domenico Museums, Palazzo Romagnoli, after the recent restoration, houses the civic collections of the twentieth century, in particular the ground floor is dedicated to the permanent exhibition of the prestigious Verzocchi Collection, while on the first floor are a selection of works to which the oils and engravings of Morandi by Donazione Righini, the sculptures of Wildt linked to the figure of Raniero Paulucci de Calboli and 'La grande Romagna', pictorial and plastic works representative of the vast and composite twentieth century heritage of Forlì.