Our location

The “Canton de’ Fiori”, where our offices are located inside, is a small building in the very inner centre of Bologna, cornering Rizzoli and Indipendenza avenues. Our windows are overlooking the small square “Piazza del Nettuno”, and so dominating the view of the City Hall, of the middle-aged “Palazzo re Enzo”, and – at the front – of the XIV century founded “Palazzo dei Notai” (photo on right). On left, you see "Canton de' Fiori" at the back of the famous Giambologna's statue of Neptune, that stands in the middle of the above mentioned square.

The original building, within an arcade at the floor ground, was based in XV century. As the neighbouring houses, and the XIII century tower arising in the background, the whole mansion was owned by Scappi’s family.

The present “Canton de’ Fiori” was bought in a public auction from Stagni’s family in 1851, at the time the floor ground was still including the celebrated Café “degli Stelloni”. It was entirely rebuilt in 1892, over a project of Augusto Sezanne, just before the beginning of the wide-range works of enlargement of both the central avenues of Bologna, via Rizzoli and via Indipendenza. The name of the last mentioned road, at that time, was actually “Canton de’ Fiori” owing to the name of our building.

The name of “Canton de’ Fiori” (“Flowered Corner”) inspired both the flowering decorations of  the façade, just under the roof, and the frescoes painted during the reconstruction by the artist Achille Casanova, on a draft of the same architect Augusto Sezanne.

Paintings about rural life were painted on the vaults of the XV century arcade later in 1904, together with lunettes over the front windows of the ground-floor premises, among which still stands the old and famous shop called “Coroncina”.