Casa Masoli

historic home, late 1600s

The history of Casa Masoli is related to the Rasponi-Bonanzi family, which has for generations preserved and enhanced it.

In 1724 the family bought the house and added it to the different other proprieties, villas and castles, they already possessed.

The building belonged for more than one century to the Rasponi Counts, called Bonanzi from 1808 when Dott. Gaetano Bonanzi declared as heirs his brother Carlo and sister Caterina Rasponi, Count Alessandro's adoptive son and daughter. The Bonanzi was an old and rich Ravenna family to which the medical profession brought them fame and prestige.
The family owned huge properties among which palazzo Grossi di Castiglione di Ravenna, a beautiful villa in Coccolia, and also a building in via di Roma in Ravenna.
Subsequently, different owners succeeded till 1970, when my family purchased it.
Then renovation started and lasted for several years till the current aspect.
The house, situated in the old town of Ravenna, close to the main square, was built between the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century.
First certain data information can be found in the Napoleonic register, stored at Ravenna Land Registry office, where the Rasponi-Bonanzi purchase is recorded.
Along the corridor, you will notice an impressive stairway which directs you to the upper floors. On the first floor, "la stanza dei sospiri" has to be pointed out. On the ceiling ruins of a nineteenth century fresco painting can be admired: this room was the main drawing room of the house (unfortunately after the second world war bombing, precisely 22nd March 1945, the house suffered big damages both on walls and on the fresco paintings, therefore was condemned 13th April 1945).

On the top floor there are three rooms currently reserved to the bed and breakfast guests but originally (according to a nineteenth century tradition) belonged to the servants.
On this floor a wonderful view of the roofs of the town and bell towers of the amazing basilicas, which are the pride and history, can be admired.
After renovations, from 2004 some rooms of the house are used as R&B providing every comfort: private room, air conditioning and tv.
Furthermore, the wall of every room is embellished with watercolor paintings, lithographs and drawings of the famous Ravenna painter Ruffini which donates a touch of prestige to this elegant atmosphere.

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the Casa Masoli collection

The walls of each room are enriched with watercolors, lithographs and drawings by the famous artist Giulio Ruffini from Ravenna, who gives a further touch of prestige to this elegant environment.