[5] During his stays, Mussolini would conduct government business from the villa and host notable guests and foreign dignitaries.

[4] In 1926, they stayed in the villa of Count Terzi in Riccione,[2][4][5][6] opposite the Grand Hotel Des Bains and near the Mater Admirabilis church.

[2] Galli Bernabei did not want to sell the villa, and was persuaded only after the intervention of Frangiotto Pullè, Riccione's mayor.

[3][5][6] Guests at the villa included singer Gea della Garisenda [it], senator Teresio Borsalino [it], and Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.

[17][18] It is believed that the villa included a cinema room which showed foreign films prohibited by the regime.

In her memoirs, Luciana Castellina, future member of the European Parliament, recalls playing tennis with Anna Maria in Riccione.

Mussolini's guard, dressed in black, were nicknamed furnarèin (cockroaches) by locals for their ability to appear unexpectedly from street corners.

[1] The main villa itself was renovated with the addition of a third floor and a ground-floor veranda,[5] bringing it to a total of 27 rooms.

[31] The works were overseen by the Swiss engineer Dario Pater using populit [it], an unstable material of concrete and chipboard for prefabricated buildings developed under Italy's autarky.

[17] Guidi sold the property to a Bolognese company in 1952:[1][20] according to Romano, she began to prefer holidays in Ischia, feeling that Riccione was too closely connected to tumultuous and unhappy years.

[17] The villa became the site of various commercial activities,[1] including a restaurant named "Perry" and a veterinary clinic for dogs.

[21][36][37] Opened in 1967, the restaurant manager conserved the rooms but introduced Spanish furniture; it was considered a fashionable place to eat.

[38][39] At a price of 92 million lire,[31] Pierani's administration purchased the garden to transform it into a public green area, reversing the 1940 expansion.

[17] The Cassa di Risparmio, which by then had become Banca Carim, advertised the property for sale in December 2017;[6][24] Villa Mussolini was still reported to be in the bank's possession in March 2023.

[11] Villa Mussolini also hosts the annual DIG Award, a prize for documentary film investigative journalism that was dedicated to Ilaria Alpi until 2014.

[9][13][44] In August 2020, Lodovico Zanetti, the president of Forlì's ANPI chapter, suggested that the villa be renamed after the Matatia family,[48] three Jewish brothers from Corfu who settled in Riccione in the 1920s.

[49] Roberto Matatia, Nissim's nephew, published a book in January 2014 recounting the family's history in proximity to Villa Mussolini, entitled The Inconvenient Neighbours.

[45][49] In April 2021, the municipality freely loaned the villa to an agency promoting Riccione's candidacy for UNESCO heritage.