Province of Bologna
Villa Smeraldi is a rural palace, now museum, along the Canale Navile near the town of Bentivoglio in the Province of Bologna, in the region of Emilia-Romagna of Italy. The villa is the host of the Museum of Peasant Farming Culture (in Italian: Museo della civiltà contadina), which documents the buildings, tools, routines, and daily lives of those involved in rural agriculture from landowner to peasant.