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Visit Villa d'Este & Gardens, Italy (UNESCO site)
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... -
Visit Villa di Camugliano, Italy (UNESCO site)
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... -
Visit Villa di Castello & Gardens, Florence, Italy (UNESCO site)
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... -
Visit Villa di Cerreto Guidi, Italy (UNESCO site)
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... -
Visit Villa di Montevettolini, Monsummano Terme, Italy (UNESCO site)
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... -
Visit Villa di Poggio a Caiano, Italy (UNESCO site)
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 ... -
Visit Villa di Pratolino Ruins & Garden, Vaglia, Italy (UNESCO site)
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... -
See Villa Emo, Vedelago, Italy (UNESCO site)
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... -
See Villa Forni Cerato, Montecchio Precalcino, Italy (UNESCO site)
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... -
See Villa Foscari, Mira, Italy (UNESCO site)
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... -
See Villa Gazzotti Grimani, Bertesina, Italy (UNESCO site)
The Villa Gazzotti Grimani (1542) is a Renaissance villa, an early work of architect Andrea Palladio, located in the village of Bertesina, near Vicenza in the Veneto region of northern Italy. In 1994 UNESCO designated Villa Gazzotti Grimani as part of the "Vicenza, City of Palladio" World Heritage Site. (Two years later the World Heritage Site was expanded to include ... -
See Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania, Romania (UNESCO site)
Saxon and Székely Transylvanian villages were often organised around a fortified church. With its more than 150 well preserved fortified churches of a great variety of architectural styles (out of an original 300 foritifed churches), south-eastern Transylvania region in Romania currently has one of the highest numbers of existing fortified churches from th... -
See Villa Godi, Lonedo di Lugo Vicentino, Italy (UNESCO site)
Villa Godi is a patrician villa in Lugo di Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. It was one of the first projects by Andrea Palladio, as attested in his monographI quattro libri dell'architettura. The work was commissioned by the brothers Girolamo, Pietro and Marcantonio Godi, started in 1537 and concluded in 1542, with later modifications to the rear entry and gardens. Th... -
Visit Villa La Petraia, Castello, Italy (UNESCO site)
The Villa La Petraia is one of the Medici villas in Castello, near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. It has a distinctive 19th century Belvedere on the upper east terrace on axis with the view of Florence. 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 cent... -
Visit Villa La Roche, France (UNESCO Site)
Villa La Roche, alsoMaison La Roche, is a house in Paris, designed by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in 1923–1925. It was designed for Raoul La Roche, a Swiss banker and collector of avant-garde art. Villa La Roche now houses the Fondation Le Corbusier. La Roche commissioned Le Corbusier to build a villa as well as a gallery to house his art collection. In Ju...
