Palazzo delle Biscie hosts weddings for 40 to 200 guests, as well as company meetings, training sessions, presentations and private parties, in a 15th-century palace with two hectares of park. The palace stands on Via Provinciale Superiore in Molinella, in the metropolitan city of Bologna, and its status as a municipal hall allows legally valid civil ceremonies on site.
Seminars and company events
For business events, the palace offers its indoor rooms and its Orangerie, both of which can be laid out and dressed to the brief, plus the park for outdoor sessions. The venue lists presentations, meetings and training days among its formats, and a dedicated team follows each event from the first exchange to the day itself. Other bookings include food and wine tasting evenings, fashion shows, theater and music performances, animal exhibitions, and film or photo shoots on location.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings make up most of the calendar. Because the palace is registered as a municipal hall for civil ceremonies, couples can marry legally on site and hold the reception in the same place. Receptions take from 40 to 200 guests, as seated dinners or outdoor buffets. Guests can use the pool, and the evening party has no closing time. The Wedding Weekend formula adds nights in the lodges, breakfast the following morning and pool access. An original 15th-century oven is lit late in the evening to bake pizza for the guests. The team also handles coordination and decoration. Private parties are welcome too: birthdays, anniversaries, communions and confirmations, indoors or outdoors.
Rooms and capacities
The venue combines the palace's indoor rooms, the Orangerie, gardens around a small lake, the pool and the wider park. The largest figure it publishes is 200 guests for a wedding reception. Capacities room by room are not listed, so a seating plan should be checked with the team before booking.
Accommodation
The Village, in the park, has lodges set among the trees. They are offered with the Wedding Weekend package. The number of lodges and beds is not published.
Catering
The palace works only with caterers it has selected over the years, which know its spaces and can serve a seated dinner indoors or a buffet in the garden.
History and setting
The austere lines of the building suggest it began as a military outpost, with a watchtower over the navigable canal that led to Bologna. On July 25, 1467, the Battle of Molinella was fought nearby: Bartolomeo Colleoni led the Venetian troops against Federico da Montefeltro and his allies, and took refuge in the palace after the fighting. The building later became a mill driven by the Canalazzo, fed by the Idice river, and a toll point on the route through the marshes toward the Este lands. The Malvezzi Campeggi family turned it into a hunting lodge. Three stories explain the name: a later owner called Busciene, water snakes (biscie) thrown off the mill wheel, and, the one the venue favors, the Sforza battle cry "Biscie! Biscie!" at Molinella. Painter Sergio Frascari bought the palace and its two hectares of park in 1998, restored it to its original architecture and set up his studio in the tower.
Getting there
The address is Via Provinciale Superiore 25, Molinella (BO). Bologna is the nearest city, and Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport is the nearest airport.
