Corbelli Palace

Welcome to Palazzo Corbelli in Reggio Emilia, a charming 19th-century building built in 1844 by Pietro Marchelli for Count Corbelli.

The main floor of this building offers over 800 square meters of luxury office space, with four private entrances that allow the space to be divided into three separate units.

Featuring a refined neoclassical style, the palace boasts a majestic facade adorned with pilasters, capitals, and six caryatids in the center.

Impressive pilasters accompany a double row of windows on the main and upper floors, enhanced by an elegant balcony, giving the building a monumental and symmetrical presence on Via Emilia. This design was conceived by the Corbelli family to increase the prestige of their residence in the city.

The main floor was recently restored and offers a series of rooms frescoed with naturalistic motifs, portraits, sphinxes, and architectural backgrounds in a style reminiscent of the Tivelli Panciroli Palace.

The interior doors have fine decoration, with figures of Bacchae on a red oval background and in squares with rounded corners, interspersed with painted heads in hexagons.

Three rooms are particularly notable: the first decorated in monochrome with angular caryatids by the artist Pasquale Zambini, with a ceiling adorned by a central oval canvas dedicated to Diana and Endymion; the second room, dedicated to Apollo, features a Muse also attributed to Pasquale Zambini; finally, the third room is dedicated to Rinaldo and Armida, suggesting the work of a student of Minghetti.

In the following decades, Palazzo Corbelli was the headquarters of the Italian Socialist Party and later an insurance company.

Today, the ground floor continues to house artisan workshops and stores, keeping the history of this prestigious place alive.

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