Delizia di Belriguardo, Renaissance villa in Voghiera, Italy.

Delizia di Belriguardo is a brick complex entered through a tall gatehouse whose round-headed arch leads into a dark passage; above it a stone coat of arms sits on the stepped-back upper block. Inside, the first courtyard is porticoed on three sides and the second on all four. Six late-15th-century Gothic windows survive in the central section, and the Sala della Vigna keeps frescoes.

Niccolò III d'Este commissioned this first summer residence outside Ferrara's walls between 1435 and 1437. The villa became a symbol of the family's power and refined tastes.

The civic museum in the former palace holds archaeological finds from the Voghiera area alongside Renaissance and modern art. In the Sala della Vigna, the only room that retains traces of its old splendour through frescoes, stands a diorama of the palace as originally laid out, Italian gardens included, made by the Museo del modellismo storico of Voghenza. Goethe set his play Torquato Tasso here, and the palace appears as a level setting in the video game Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

The complex is reached from Strada Provinciale 274, about 15 km from Ferrara. Entry passes through the round-headed arch of the central brick tower, which leads into the first garden; the first courtyard is porticoed on three sides, the second on all four. The Sala della Vigna, next to the second courtyard, keeps the surviving frescoes and the diorama of the original layout.

The Sala della Vigna, the only room that still preserves traces of the palace's former splendour through its frescoes, also holds a diorama of Belriguardo's original layout, including its Italian-style gardens, made by the Museo del modellismo storico di Voghenza.