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Villa Chiericati (also known as Villa Chiericati-Rigo) is a villa at Vancimuglio in the Veneto, northern Italy. It was designed for Giovanni Chiericati by the architect Andrea Palladio in the early 1550s.
Palladio also designed the family's town house Palazzo Chiericati in Vicenza.
In 1996 UNESCO included the villa in the World Heritage SiteCity of Vicenza and the Pal...
Villa Cornaro is a patrician villa in Piombino Dese, about 30 km northwest of Venice, Italy. It was designed by the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio in 1552 and is illustrated and described by him in Book Two of his 1570 masterwork,I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (The Four Books on Architecture).
Villa Cornaro was mainly constructed in 1553-1554, with a...
The Villa Corsini at Mezzomonte, former Medici villa, is located in Via Impruneta per Pozzolatico 116 in the municipality of Impruneta, in the Chianti.
The Medici villas are a series of rural building complexes near Florence which were owned by members of the Medici family between the 15th century and the 17th century. In 2013, the Medici villas were added to UNESCO's...
The Villa del Balbianello is a villa in the town of Lenno, Italy, overlooking Lake Como. It is located on the tip of a small wooded peninsula on the western shore of the south-west branch of Lake Como, not far from the Isola Comacina and is famous for its elaborate terraced gardens.c
The villa was built in 1787 on the site of a Franciscan monastery for the Cardinal An...
Villa del Poggio Imperiale is a predominantly neoclassical former grand ducal villa in Arcetri, just to the south of Florence in Tuscany, central Italy. Beginning as a villa of the Baroncelli of Florence, it was seized by the Medici, became the home of a homicidal and unfaithful husband, and a lavish retreat for a Grand Duchess with imperial pretensions. Later given t...
The Villa del Trebbio is a Medici villa in Tuscany, Italy. The villa is located near San Piero a Sieve in the Mugello region, in the province of Florence, in the area from which the Medici family originated. It was one of the first - if not the first - of the Medici villas built outside Florence. The estate is situated on a strategic position in the Appennines, on the...
The Villa d'Este is a villa situated at Tivoli, near Rome, Italy. Listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, it is a fine example of Renaissance architecture and the Italian Renaissance garden.
The Villa itself surrounds on three sides a sixteenth-century courtyard sited on the former Benedictine cloister. The fountain on a side wall, framed within a Doric, contains a sc...
Villa Niccolini, former Medici Villa Camuglianois located east of Ponsacco ( Pisa ), near a small village of feudal origin, Camugliano.
The area at the base of a hill between the valley of ' It was and Cascina , was chosen by Alessandro de' Medici Duke to make a grand home in the middle of a large estate. The area also had a strategic role because the interests of the...
The Villa di Castello is one of the Medici villas near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. Its ideal design appears in a lunette painted by Giusto Utens in 1599. The property was purchased by Lorenzo de'Medici in 1477 on the site of an existing building which he had rebuilt. In the villa he housed Sandro Botticelli's Renaissance masterpiecesThe Birth of Venus (Botticell...
The Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidiis a noble residence located in the center of Cerreto Guidi , in the province of Florence , in Via dei Medici Bridges 7. It is one of the few Medici villas to be permanently opened as a museum , hosting since 2002 the old hunting Museum and territory.
The Historical Museum of Hunting and the territory was opened on 28 September 2002 an...
The Villa di Montevettolini is a Medici villa in the comune of Monsummano Terme, Tuscany, central Italy.
Also called Monte Veturino, the villas was built after 1595 by commission of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany on a high hill at the feet of Monte Albano, where a large hunting reserve (the so-called Parco Reale) was located. The architect was Gherardo Mechini, a p...
Poggio a Caiano is a town in the province of Prato, Tuscany region Italy. The town lies 9 kilometres (6 mi) south of the provincial capital of Prato.
In 1473, a ruined fortified house at Poggio a Caiano, called the Ambra, and land and a mill owned by Giovanni Rucellai, were bought by Lorenzo de' Medici. Initially, only agricultural improvements were carried out; then ...
The Villa di Pratolino was a Renaissance patrician villa in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. It was mostly demolished in 1820: its remains are now part of Villa Demidoff, 12 km north of Florence, reached from the main road to Bologna.
The Medici villas are a series of rural building complexes near Florence which were owned by members of the Medici family between the 15th centu...
Villa Emo is a patrician villa in the Veneto, northern Italy, near the village of Fanzolo di Vedelago. It was designed by Andrea Palladio in 1559 for the Emo family of Venice and remained in the hands of the Emo family until it was sold in 2004. Since 1996, it has been conserved as part of the World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto...
The Villa Forni Cerato is a 16th-century villa in Montecchio Precalcino, Province of Vicenza, northern Italy. Its design is attributed to Andrea Palladio and his client is assumed to have been Girolamo Forni, a wealthy wood merchant who supplied building material for a number of the Palladio's projects. The attribution to Palladio is partly on stylistic grounds, altho...
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