Palaces, Villas and Castles

The fortress of Dozza

The fortress is a museum and Dozza is the seat of the regional wine-house. From the picturesque drawbridge you enter a small courtyard that leads to a more structured and large courtyard, with a porch in the Renaissance style and a loggia with arches supported by elegant columns that make the fortress of Dozza a true Renaissance manor. The rooms are decorated with many original furnishings, coffered ceilings and a collection of paintings of the era, among which several portraits of the Malvezzi family. You can see a portrait of the Marquis Malvezzi and of his family, his sons and his wife Teresa Sacchetti painted by the Bolognese painter Felice Torelli between 1711 and 1713. The museum also preserves the "Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist and St. Margaret," by Marco Palmezzano (1459/1463-1559).

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