Villa delle Rose, Italian villa and national heritage site in Bologna, Italy

Villa delle Rose is an eighteenth-century residence in Bologna displaying symmetrical rooms and classical decorative features throughout. The building reflects the design principles typical of that era's wealthy households.

Villa delle Rose was built as a country residence for the Sienese Spanocchi family on the Monte Franco rise. In the second half of the 18th century it was remodelled and recorded in cadastral registers as the Cella family's holiday home, Casino Cella. It later took the name Villa la Scala from the multi-flight staircase leading up from via Saragozza. In 1900 the Armandi Avogli couple rented it, bought it in 1906 and had architect Dante Trebbi restore villa and park in 1907.

The name Villa delle Rose comes from the abundance of flowers planted during the 1907 restoration by architect Dante Trebbi. Donated to Bologna in 1916 by Countess Nerina Armandi Avogli, it housed the city's modern art gallery from 1926 and now serves as an external venue of MAMbo for temporary exhibitions.

The villa stands on the Monte Franco rise at the foot of the Colle della Guardia, in the Porto-Saragozza district, reached from via Saragozza by a multi-flight staircase. The garden covers just under two hectares on the first slopes of the hill, so expect uphill walking; the grounds are the setting for temporary exhibitions and events run with public and private partners.

The garden covers just under two hectares on the first slopes of Colle della Guardia. It holds a superb beech facing the building and late-19th- and early-20th-century sculptures by Cincinnato Baruzzi, Ercole Drei, Silverio Montaguti and Giuseppe Romagnoli.