Museo di Casa Romei

Casa Romei is the only building in Ferrara, who still manages to convey the charm and ambiance of a stately building full Quattrocento. Its elegant architecture, with lounges, courtyards, loggias, and the extraordinary interior and exterior decorations make it a unique place also in relation to other ancient towns mansions transformed in the following centuries. The charm of the place and its history is accompanied by the interest of the artistic collections that it owns. Since the fifties of the twentieth century, in fact, they are on display in its 15 rooms frescoes and sculptures from sacred buildings of the city, many of which have now disappeared or irretrievably altered. The occasion of a visit to Casa Romei becomes an opportunity to discover a Ferrara has now disappeared. The names of important artists such as Donatello, Francesco Dal Cossa, Gregorio di Lorenzo, Bastianino, Alfonso Lombardi, echo in the halls of the museum and help to increase the suggestion of a single site and exceptionally attractive.

Casa Romei was built by the merchant Giovanni Romei around the mid fifteenth century, and constitutes a unique renaissance mansion in Ferrara. Original decorations from the age of its first owner, elegant courtyards, loggias, halls, make it an exceptional landmark inside the ancient city center. During The Time That the house formed part of the Monastery of Corpus Domini, the ceilings of the rooms on the first floor (XVI century), were decorated with elegant grotesques. Casa Romei Became a veritable museum in 1953 and received collections of frescoes, statues and lapidaries from mostly destroyed ancient city churches and civil buildings. Therefore you can discover -inside its 15 rooms- witnesses from a forgotten town. The echoes of important artists, such as Donatello, Francesco Dal Cossa, Gregory of Lorenzo, Bastianino, Alfonso Lombardi, make the visit inside Casa Romeo an unforgettable experience of a greater interest.