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The history of the Palace of Varignana
The history of Varignana began in the second century BC with the foundation of the city of Claterna by the Romans. This town in the Roman era prospered economically, thanks above all to the consul Marco Emilio Lepido who in the 189 BC made it cross by the famous street that bears his name: La via Emilia.

Unlike many cities founded in Roman times, Claterna unfortunately did not survive the collapse of the western empire, since with the arrival of the Middle Ages, radically changed the defensive needs of the city, which was gradually abandoned. The inhabitants moved to a village protected by hills and wide walls where, after a long period of transitions, around the X century AD, the Castle of Varignana was founded. Throughout the Middle Ages the village continued to expand and change structurally - with the construction of the church of San Lorenzo, at the northern entrance of the village - and politically, with the admission of Varignana to the municipality of Castel San Pietro.

The castle always maintained its vocation as a fortified village, and the tower-house, seat of administrative authority, still today testifies its ancient splendor.

Varignana returns to the center of political events with the French occupation, more precisely with the entry into service, in the 1794, of Count Antonio Bentivoglio who resided in the majestic Palazzo Bargellini-Bentivoglio, built almost a century before (1705), from the Count Orazio Bargellini is made by Francesco Angiolini, perhaps, the most famous architect of eighteenth-century Bologna.