Delizia di Belriguardo Voghiera

This was how Ludovico il Moro described his visit to the Belriguardo Delizia in a letter written to his wife Beatrice d’Este in May 1493. Construction began in 1436 by order of the Marquis of Ferrara, Nicolò III d’Este and was conceived as an ‘old-fashioned’ villa. The architect of the building, Giovanni da Siena, perfected a design that appears to follow the Vitruvian reconstruction of a Greek house, with a core of two spacious arcaded rectangular courtyards, designed in sequence and connected by a large building with two floors.