Villa Spada, Bologna

The Villa Spada is a former-aristocratic suburban Neoclassical mansion with a surrounding formal and informal gardens located on Via di Casaglia #3, outside of Porta Saragozza, to the southwest of central Bologna, Italy.

Since the 1990s, it houses the Museum of Textiles and Upholstery Vittorio Zironi (Museo del Tessuto e della Tappezzeria "Vittorio Zironi").

The surrounding gardens in the hill provide views of Bologna.

A villa at the site was commissioned initially by the aristocrat Jacopo Zambeccari (died 1795) from the architect Giovanni Battista Martinetti.

[1] The interior has sculptures by Giacomo De Maria, and has some painting decorations by Serafino Barozzi and Filippo Pedrini.