A natural feudal complex, the fifteenth-century village of Selva Malvezzi owes its name to the powerful Bolognese noble family of the same name... #tuttitaly
The fifteenth-century village of Selva Malvezzi is a fraction of Molinella with the appearance of a feudal complex.
At the end of the 15th century, the area was given under administration to the Malvezzi noble family from Bologna, who had today's village built.
The central nucleus consists of the seventeenth-century manor house with a double ramp staircase that allows diversified access to people and animals, the Governor's Palace with a splendid facade enriched by the clock and the bell, and the "Palazzaccio."
The Governor's Palace was built in the second half of the
seventeenth century by Count Camillo Malvezzi, including a hospital, shops, warehouses, and residential houses.
The Palazzaccio was built by Matteo Quarto Malvezzi Campeggi shortly after 1491 to defend the county on the road leading to Bologna and Budrio. The fortress, which remained unfinished, was restored in the mid-seventeenth century.
Even before the dissolution of the feud, it fell into abandonment and was used by the peasants as a warehouse and partly as a home.
The first church in the town, dedicated to the S. Croce, dates back to 1450 but was rebuilt at the beginning of the 19th century at the behest of Count Alfonso Malvezzi. In the 19th century, the archpriest's house and the old rectory were documented in addition to the sacristy built as an oratory.
The feudal period ended in 1796 with the arrival of the
French. The territory was incorporated into the Department of the Rhine. Napoleon deprived Alfonso Malvezzi of the fiefdom but left him ownership of the palace and its vast grounds. This concession allowed the Malvezzis to plant the first rice fields in the Molinellese in 1810.
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