Destination Guide Refined by Name: V Attraction Activities (8) Arts (6) Monuments + Museums (2) Sightseeing + Tours (104) Title Keyword
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Villa Guarienti Frazione Punta San Vigilio, 1, Garda, 37016 |
For anyone wanting to enjoy an unforgettable view of the southern Garda basin and the small, romantic bay of the Sirens, Punta San Virgilio is an obligatory place to stop. Nearby stands the 16th century villa Guarienti, ... more
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Villa Guastavillani Via degli Scalini 18, Bologna, 40136 |
The interior is embellished by a noteworthy figurative scheme inspired by biblical and mythological subjects and personages, and alludes to the historical and political climate of the period in which the owner who commis... more
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Villa Imperiale di Terralba 70 Via San Fruttuoso, Genoa, 16143 |
Built between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the sixteenth century for Lorenzo Cattaneo, restructured around 1560, this was the model for all Genoese villas...
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Villa Imperiali Scassi 3 Via N. D'Aste, Genoa, 16149 |
Built by Vincenzo Imperiale between 1560 and 1563 at Sampierdarena, once the genovese aristocracy's favourite site for building country residences, the villa is actually now...
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Villa La Pietra Via Bolognese, 120, Florence, 50100 |
When the English connoisseur Harold Acton died six years ago, he left his Florentine estate to the New York University knowing that they had the necessary funds to upkeep the vast property and to finance a vital tertiary... more
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Villa Lante 10 Passeggiata del Gianicolo, Rome, 00165 |
Young cardinal Francisco Gambara, descendant from one noble family born in brescia, thanks to the protection of the Farnese (the mother was the vedova of Ranuccio Farnese), obtained the title it of Bishop of Bagnaia in 1... more
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Villa Malta o delle Rose Via di Porta Pinciana, Rome, 00187 |
The villa took the name of Villa Malta when it became the residence of the Order of Malta in Rome. The nucleus of the central tower, visible from outside with its bluish windows...
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Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo Localita Cafaggiolo, Florence, 50030 |
the summer of 2000 Karen and I returned to Italy for more archaeology, sun, and good food, this time to the little Tuscan village of San Piero a Sieve in the Apennines foothills north of Florence. Our excavation at the M... more
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Villa Medicea di Careggi Via Pieraccini, 17, Florence, 50139 |
This 14th-century building was commissioned by Cosimo il Vecchio. Originally owned by the Lippi family, it passed to the Medici family in the 15th century and the villa saw both the birth of Lorenzo the Magnificent and h... more
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Villa Medicea di Cerreto Guidi Via dei Ponti Medicei, 7, Florence, 50050 |
Villa Medicea of Cerreto, which stands on the top of a hill once occupied by the castle of the Guidi counts, was built by grand-duke Cosimo I dei Medici, to satisfy his desire to erect a splendid residence over the dilap... more
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