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TheVilla della Reginais a palace outside the city of Turin, Italy. It was originally built by the House of Savoy in the 17th century.
The original structure was designed in early 1615 by the Italian soldier, architect and military engineer, Ascanio Vitozzi. He died in 1615 and the project was passed over to his collaborators, father and son Carlo and Amedeo di Castel...
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...
The Villa Doria Pamphili is a seventeenth-century villa with what is today the largest landscaped public park in Rome, Italy. It is located in the quarter of Monteverde, on theGianicolo(or the Roman Janiculum), just outside the Porta San Pancrazio in the ancient walls of Rome where the ancient road of theVia Aureliacommences.
It began as a villa for the Pamphili famil...
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...
Villa Epecuén is like an open-air museum. You can see white salt on the ruins, rusty cars, and dead trees—everything looks frozen in time.
Only one person lives there now, Pablo Novak, age 91. He walks the empty streets and shares stories with visitors, showing how quickly a place can change.
Villa Epecuén was a tourist village in Buenos Aire...
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...
Villa Foscari is a patrician villa in Mira, near Venice, northern Italy, designed by the Italian architect Andrea Palladio. It is also known asLa Malcontenta, a nickname which it received when the spouse of one of the Foscaris was locked up in the house because she allegedly didn't live up to her conjugal duty.
The villa was commissioned by the brothers Nicolo and Lui...
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