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In 1658 Giuseppe Branciforti, Prince of Butera and former Viceroy of Sicily, built a large villa and established the region as the preferred location for villeggiatura by Palermitan elite.
Villas like the fortified Villa San Marco ( designed by Andrea Cirrincione ) with angled bastions and a drawbridge soon followed.
The area experienced a boom in villa building roughly coinciding with the period of Savoyard ( 1713 – 21 ) and Habsburg ( 1721 – 30 ) rule and continuing for several decades thereafter.
The two most striking baroque residences, Villa Valguarnera and Villa Palagonia were designed by the architect Tommaso Maria Napoli in 1712 and 1715 respectively.
Napoli had been influenced by his experiences in Rome and Vienna and this is reflected in his designs.
Other architects and clients like the Giuseppe Mariani and the Prince of Aragona also looked to prints of Roman exemplars when constructing the Villa Aragona ( now Cutò ) in 1714.
Marvuglia, was directly modelled on more neoclassical plans published by Jean-François Neufforge in 1760.
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