Palazzo Robellini – Enoteca Regionale 'Terme & Vino'

A late-sixteenth-century palace with a grand colonnade is associated with the regional wine cellar Terme & Vino. Palazzo Robellini's vaulted cellars have been used to present wines of Piedmont, including Brachetto d'Acqui, the sparkling red associated with the hills around the town.

Why it matters

Palazzo Robellini is a Renaissance palace on Piazza Levi, where architectural history and local wine culture intersect. The municipal tourism portal records the building's late-1500s origins under Giovanni Antonio Robellini, whose imposing colonnade still announces the palace from the square, and its eighteenth-century remodelling by the Dagna Sabina family, who added the staircase and formal rooms. The cellars have housed the Enoteca Regionale Terme & Vino, dedicated above all to Brachetto d'Acqui DOCG, the aromatic sparkling red associated with the Acquese. The palace is part of Piazza Levi's architectural ensemble alongside the town hall.

What to notice

The colonnade is described by the portal as a surviving feature of the palace's late-sixteenth-century construction and contributes to Piazza Levi's architectural character. The vaulted cellars have small rooms, exposed brick walls and furnishings in Piedmontese wood; the wine collection has included Brachetto and other DOC wines of the Acquese. Traditional tools from viticulture and winemaking document the area's rural economy. The eighteenth-century layer appears in the staircase and formal rooms added by the Dagna Sabina family. The name Terme & Vino joins the town's thermal and wine identities.

Context and history

The palace belongs to the wave of aristocratic building that reshaped north-west Italian towns in the later sixteenth century, when families of office and commerce — the Robellini among them — raised residences whose public faces, like this colonnade, contributed to the dignity of the town square. Its subsequent biography is typically layered: the portal documents the 1700s remodelling under the Dagna Sabina family, whose staircase and formal rooms updated the house to the taste of the following century. The twentieth century brought a new vocation. After Brachetto d'Acqui gained DOC and later DOCG recognition, the regional enoteca network established a showcase for the wine district in the palace's vaults under the name Terme & Vino, connecting the town's thermal waters and wine histories.