Villa Dosi Delfini, Baroque villa in Pontremoli, Italy.

Villa Dosi Delfini is a Baroque villa near Pontremoli's historic centre, in the I Chiosi area. It has a central H-shaped plan flanked by two hanging gardens, with a terraced vineyard on the uphill side. A sober facade faces a large tenaglia staircase, and the entrance opens into a double-height frescoed hall.

The Dosi Delfini, originally from Belgioioso near Pavia, came to Pontremoli for trade and bought the Chiosi estate. Carlo and Francesco Dosi, sons of Nicolò, had the villa built between the late 17th and early 18th centuries against Monte Molinatico. It hosted Duke Francesco Farnese of Parma in 1714. Plundered in the Napoleonic era, it was gradually recovered from 1814.

The name Dosi Delfini belongs to the family that commissioned the villa and still owns it. Two portrait busts of the brothers Carlo and Francesco Dosi, sons of Nicolò, stand above the entrance door of the main hall. The villa is part of the Association of Castles of the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Pontremoli.

The villa stands at I Chiosi, against Monte Molinatico, a short distance from the Piagnaro castle that overlooks Pontremoli's historic centre. The H-shaped building is flanked by two hanging gardens, with a terraced vineyard of native vines on the uphill side. A large tenaglia staircase fronts the sober facade and leads straight into the two-level hall of festivities.

The villa's H-shaped plan is flanked by two hanging gardens, with a terraced vineyard of native grape varieties rising behind it toward Monte Molinatico. The sober facade recalls Renaissance Medicean villas, but is fronted by a large tenaglia, or pincer, staircase. Above the main hall door, busts of the brothers Carlo and Francesco Dosi greet visitors.