The original core of the complex can be considered a work of the fourteenth century with features of frontage, later transformed into a villa. During the Siege of Reggio in 1655, the District of Marquis Carracena was the commander of the Spanish army; a press of the time clearly shows the construction with four corner towers. At the beginning of 1700 it belonged to the Masdoni who in 1720 welcomed the Ducal Court with Princess Carlotta of Orleans. The Masdoni made changes to the building and built along the road the oratory dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (1); already in the seventeenth century there was a majesty called "the little one".It was restored in 1710 by the Bishop of Modena Ludovico Masdoni. At the villa there was also an internal chapel and an oratory placed in a small building reduced to a dwelling; stood at noon of the palace and remained the memory in a tombstone carved with the papal triara and the words "Sacrosancta Lateranensis Ecclesia" (3). The villa suffered irreparable damage in the earthquake of 1832 and was then landed in 1845 by the new owner Count Antonio Vezzani Pratonieri.He then built the current complex in the neoclassic style of Arch. Carlo Lari. In 1877 it passed to the Soliani and later to the heirs of the N. D. Edmea Magnanini Nicoli who made you undertake excavations that brought to light traces of the ancient plant (4).