Palazzo Diamanti

The building was the head office of L’Enologica, the first Italian institution with an explicitly cooperative organization that set itself to producing and selling wine.
Rio Saliceto
Palazzo Diamanti

Address and contacts

Via Giuseppe Garibaldi - 42010 Rio Saliceto
Phone 0039 0522 647811 - Municipality of Rio Saliceto

Opening times

Visitable only outside

How to get there

Rio Saliceto

By car
From Reggio Emilia, follow SS468 direction Correggio, then SP5 to Campagnola Emilia-Novellara.

By bus
From Piazzale Europa bus 43 line Reggio-Rolo

Historical notes

The deed of partnership of the cooperative dates to 23 August 1901 and states that the purpose of the company was not only to produce and distribute the typical local wine but also to make it known and appreciated. Pier Giacinto Terracini, first mayor and remarkable administrator and town-planner, dedicated to this wine – stronger than any other in the district – a monument known as “il Bacco,” composed of a large cask surmounted by Noah. The monument was later destroyed during the Fascist period.
The cooperative’s enological vocation is further expressed by the building in via Garibaldi, which housed it until 1935, when the building was sold. Along the outer walls of the building hundreds of bottles of wine – alternating bottoms and mouths – were incorporated.
In occasion of the hundredth anniversary of its founding, a celebration was organized on 23 August 2001 which included the placement of a commemorative plaque on the façade of the palazzo depicting St. George, patron saint of Rio Saliceto.