Villa Levi, Coviolo

Villa Levi is a neoclassical architecture-style rural palace located on via Fratelli Rosselli 107 in Coviolo, an hamlet of Reggio Emilia, capital city of the homonymous Province, Region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

[1] A rural house at this site was first commissioned in the first half of the 17th century by the Besenzi family.

In 1874 the villa was bought by the family of Ulderico Levi (1842-1922), who was a prominent Jewish businessman and philanthropist of Reggio Emilia.

Ulderico's grand-daughter, Margherita Levi (1865-1938), was married to the opera composer Alberto Franchetti.

Presently some rooms contain stuffed animals, derived from the 19th-century hunting trophy collection of Baron Raimondo Franchetti, Margherita's son.