Olbia, Villa Clorinda

The building is now home to a college of religious women. The same designer was commissioned to another building, which became the seat of the Town Hall.
The building was designed around 1920 by the engineer Bruno Cipelli for the Colonna family, originally from the island of Ponza.
On an asymmetric plan to which two new side bodies are placed today, the villa has two floors with a level added later above a molded frame on which stands a belvedere tower with blackbirds. The main façade has an entrance surmounted by a pronaos supported by gray granite columns. The entire decoration of the building is made of white stucco and is present both in the frames and in the fake hanging pilasters, and in the low-arched openings of the main façade and in the sharp-arched windows on the side: the recurring ornaments are floral motifs, liras, female and male heads.
The most unique aspect is precisely the link between the medieval neo-Gothic style and the Art Nouveau style, which tastefully coexist throughout the decorative apparatus.

History of studies
A review of studies can be found in the bibliography relating to the fact sheet in the volume of the “History of Art in Sardinia” on nineteenth-century architecture (2001).

Bibliography by
F. Masala, Architecture from the Unification of Italy to the end of the 1900s. Nuoro, Ilisso, 2001, sheet 15.