Nine bedrooms, a sauna, a makeup room, and a name that needs no introduction in Italy. Yet Raffaella Carrà’s home in Vigna Clara—the apartment at Via Nemea 21 where “Raffa” lived until July 5, 2021—never found a buyer.
Put up for sale in April 2022, it remained on the market for nearly three years, and the price dropped from 2.1 to 1.87 million euros. In March 2025, it was withdrawn from the market.
According to land registry records, the apartment is currently registered in the name of Gian Luca Pelloni Bulzoni, Carrà’s adopted son and sole heir. In June, Bulzoni launched the Raffaella Carrà Foundation in Rome, which, according to Open, is headquartered at Via Nemea 21.
“Like Living on a Frecciarossa”: Why No One Bought Raffa’s Home
The clearest explanation came from Giancarlo Magalli, who knew that apartment inside and out. One of the apartments that was later merged with Raffa’s was his: he first rented it to her, then sold it to her.
That is precisely the crux of the matter. The land registry records confirm that the home was created by merging four apartments, and according to Magalli, living there is like being on a Frecciarossa train.
Furthermore, the listing described it as needing renovation.
For this reason, an expert has suggested dividing it back into four units of about 100 square meters each: finding someone to buy 400 square meters all at once is much harder than selling four smaller units.
And so, one of Rome’s most famous million-euro homes has remained just as it is.
Inside the apartment on Via Nemea: the dumbwaiter in the kitchen, the yoga room, and the bedroom with pink wallpaper
The photos in the 2024 listing showed a home that remained just as it was in Raffa’s day.
The apartment occupies the first floor of a four-story building: 384 square meters of interior space plus 36 square meters of balconies, with two entrances. The entrance opens into a grand reception room with large windows, flanked by a double dining room.
The master bedroom features pink floral wallpaper and a marble bathroom with a whirlpool tub and sauna.
Then there are the star-worthy details. In the kitchen—white with black marble countertops—a freight elevator descends to the ironing room on the floor below.
And there’s more: a gym, a yoga studio, and the makeup room where Raffaella would get ready before receiving guests.
Among them was Laura Pausini. In one of her old posts, you can recognize the TV room, complete with the projector that Carrà used to watch her shows.
A pool, tennis court, and an aviary: the Vigna Clara apartment complex where Boncompagni and Japino also lived
The complex is called Due Pini and was built in the 1960s. It comprises 15 luxury buildings with a park, a swimming pool, tennis courts, and even an aviary.
It is located in the heart of Vigna Clara, the neighborhood nicknamed “the Hollywood of the Capital,” between Insugherata Park and Inviolatella Borghese.
Carrà wasn’t the only TV personality living there. Gianni Boncompagni and Sergio Japino, the two great loves of her life, also lived in the same complex.
And it was likely within these very walls that shows like *Carràmba, che sorpresa!* were conceived.
From the exhibition at the Museum of Civilizations to the hologram on December 28: where to find the “Raffa” in Rome
Via Nemea remains a place steeped in memories. In July 2021, the funeral procession set out from here. It made stops at the Foro Italico, on Via Teulada, at the Teatro delle Vittorie, and on Viale Mazzini, before arriving at the funeral chapel at the Campidoglio.
Her upcoming appearances, however, will be at the EUR district. For this fall, the Museum of Civilization has announced the exhibition *Raffaella Carrà: Courage, Lifestyle, and Freedom*, promoted by the Ministry of Culture and sponsored by the Foundation.
On December 28 at 9 p.m., at the Atlantico, “Raffaella Carrà – The Show Must Go On,” the concert featuring her hologram, will take the stage.
