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Visit Villa Medici at Cafaggiolo & Gardens, Barberino di Mugello, Italy (UNESCO site)
The Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo is a villa situated near the Tuscan town of Barberino di Mugello in the valley of the River Sieve, some 25 kilometres north of Florence, central Italy. It was one of the oldest and most favoured of the Medici family estates, having been in the possession of the family since the 14th century, when it was owned by Averardo de' Medici. Ave... -
Visit Villa Medici at Careggi, Italy (UNESCO site)
The Villa Medici at Careggi is a patrician villa in the hills near Florence, Tuscany, central Italy. 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 World Heritage list. The villa was among the first... -
Visit Villa Medici Fiesole, Fiesole, Italy (UNESCO site)
The Villa Medici is a patrician villa in Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy, the fourth oldest of the villas built by the Medici family. It was built between 1451 and 1457. 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 t... -
Visit Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, Italy
The Villa of the Mysteries (Italian:Villa dei Misteri) is a well-preserved suburban ancient Roman villa on the outskirts of Pompeii, southern Italy. It is famous for the series of exquisite frescos in Room 5, which are usually interpreted as showing the initiation of a bride into a Greco-Roman mystery cult. These are now among the best known of the relatively rare sur... -
Visit Villa Oplontis (Torre Annunziata), Italy (UNESCO site)
Oplontis is the location of the Villa Poppaea, the villa of the wife of Emperor Nero, which was excavated in the mid-20th century and is open to the public. A second villa, the Villa of L. Crassius Tertius, was discovered in 1974, 250 metres east of the Villa of Poppaea, during the construction of a school. It was named following the finding of a bronze seal bearing C... -
See Villa Piovene, Lugo Vicentino, Italy (UNESCO site)
Villa Piovene is a Palladian villa built in Lonedo di Lugo, province of Vicenza, northern Italy. The building was commissioned in the 16th century for the aristocratic Venetian Piovene family, their architect believed to have been Andrea Palladio. It is part of the World Heritage Site "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto" since 1996. Villa Piovene w... -
See Villa Pisani, Bagnolo, Italy (UNESCO site)
The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa designed by Andrea Palladio, located in Bagnolo, a hamlet in thecomuneof Lonigo in the Veneto region of Italy. The Pisani were a rich family of Venetian nobles who owned severalVillas Pisani, two of them designed by Andrea Palladio. The villa at Bagnolo was built in the 1540s and represents Palladio's first villa designed for a pa... -
See Villa Pisani, Montagnana, Italy (UNESCO site)
The Villa Pisani is a patrician villa outside the city walls of Montagnana, Veneto, northern Italy. It was designed by Andrea Palladio about 1552, for Cardinal Francesco Pisani. Pisani was also a patron of the painters Paolo Veronese and Giambattista Maganza and the sculptor Alessandro Vittoria, who provided sculptures of theFour Seasonsfor the villa, which is in fact... -
See Villa Pojana (Poiana), Poiana Maggiore, Italy (UNESCO site)
Villa Pojana or Poiana, is a patrician villa in Pojana Maggiore, a town of the Province of Vicenza in the Veneto region of Italy. It was designed by the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio. It is conserved as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, "City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto". The Villa Pojana was built in the years 1548-1549 for Bonifacio... -
See Villa Romana del Casale, Italy (UNESCO site)
Villa Romana del Casale is a Roman villa built in the first quarter of the 4th century and located about 5 km outside the town of Piazza Armerina, Sicily, southern Italy. Containing the richest, largest and most complex collection of Roman mosaics in the world, it is one of 44 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Italy. The overall plan of the villa was dictated by several ... -
See Villa Saraceno, Agugliaro, Italy (UNESCO site)
Villa Saraceno is a Palladian Villa in Agugliaro, Province of Vicenza, northern Italy. It was commissioned by the patrician Saraceno family. Villa Saraceno has been dated to the 1540s, which makes it one of Andrea Palladio's earlier works. In 1570 the building was illustrated in an imagined state in its architect's influential publication "Four Books of Architecture".... -
See Villa Savoye, Poissy, France (UNESCO Site)
Villa Savoye is a modernist villa in Poissy, on the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete. A manifesto of Le Corbusier's "five points" of new architecture, the villa is representative of the bases of modern architecture, and is one of the ... -
See Villa Serego, San Pietro in Cariano, Italy (UNESCO site)
Villa Serego or Villa Sarego is a Palladian villa at Santa Sofia di Pedemonte, San Pietro in Cariano in the province of Verona, northern Italy. It was built for the aristocratic Sarego family, and designed by Andrea Palladio. The villa is distinctive for its use of rusticated columns of the Ionic order. The villa was commissioned by the Venetian nobleman Marcantonio S... -
See Villa Thiene, Quinto Vicentino, Italy (UNESCO site)
Villa Thiene is a 16th-century villa at Quinto Vicentino in the province of Vicenza. The building as it stands today is the work of several architects one of whom was Andrea Palladio. Like several other projects on which Palladio worked, it was commissioned by two brothers, in this case Marcantonio and Adriano Thiene. Since 1996, the villa has been conserved as part o... -
See Villa Trissino, Cricoli, Italy (UNESCO site)
The Villa Trissino is a villa which belonged to Gian Giorgio Trissino, located at Cricoli, just outside the center of Vicenza, in northern Italy. It was mainly built in the 16th century and is associated by tradition with the architect Andrea Palladio. The building is of undeniable importance in the Palladio "mythos". Since 1994 the villa has been part of a World Heri...
