The life-size so-called " Adonis " found in 1780 on the site of a villa suburbana near the Via Labicana in the Roman suburb of Centocelle is identified as an Apollo by modern scholars.

The term " Casino " is of Italian origin, the root word being " Casa " ( house ) and originally meant a small country villa, summerhouse or pavilion.

Dumnonia is noteworthy for its many settlements that have survived from the Romano-British period, but also for its lack of a villa system.

It is traditionally suggested that Henry gathered at his villa on the Sagres peninsula a school of navigators and map-makers.

Louis was born while his father Charlemagne was on campaign in Spain, at the Carolingian villa of Cassinogilum, according to Einhard and the anonymous chronicler called Astronomus ; the place is usually identified with Chasseneuil, near Poitiers.

Maybe also that this hilltop dwelling, commissioned by Giovanni de ' Medici, Cosimo il Vecchio's second son, with its view over the city, is the very first example of a Renaissance villa: that is to say it follows the Albertian criteria for rendering a country dwelling a " villa suburbana ".

His villa in Moscow is now the Tunisian Embassy and routine work on the grounds have turned up a number of bodies of young girls buried in the gardens.

A mark of such newly-settled conditions in the Duchy of Rome is the Domusculta Capracorum, the central Roman villa that Adrian assembled from a nucleus of his inherited estates and acquisitions from neighbors in the countryside north of Veii.

The villa is documented in Liber Pontificalis, but its site was not rediscovered until the 1960s, when excavations revealed the structures on a gently-rounded hill that was only marginally capable of self-defense, but fully self-sufficient for a mixed economy of grains and vineyards, olives, vegetable gardens and piggery with its own grain mill, smithies and tile-kilns.

Located a few hundred meters east of the Sifangcheng Pavilion of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, the villa still exists, and is commonly known as Meilinggong ( 美龄宫 ), " May-ling Palace ".

In Colombia they are called invasiones ( as in " invading a property ", as squatting can be related to a building or an empty lot ), in Venezuela they are also known as invasiones, in Argentina the term used is villa miseria, in Chile they are called Tomas, and in Uruguay, cantegriles.

The area is famous for its villa architecture.

The stories are told in the garden of the first villa that the company stays at, which ( although fictional ) is located a few miles outside the city.

Villa Savoye () is a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France.

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 most easily recognizable and renowned examples of the International style.

He is murdered by his own soldiers in his villa, near Solona.

* The earliest stage of Lullingstone Roman villa is built.

* May 7 – The settlement of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, is elevated to the royal status of villa by the government of Spain.

In Piranesi's view, the palazzo on the right is the Palazzo della Sacra Consulta, originally a villa built upon the ruins of the Baths of Constantine, which was adapted by Sixtus V as a civil and criminal court.

Lullingstone Roman Villa is a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain, situated near the village of Eynsford in Kent, south eastern England.

The villa is located in the Darent Valley, along with six others, including those at Crofton, Crayford and Dartford.

This villa, intended to be an airy summer pavilion, presented a side towards the street and was given a U shaped plan with a five bay loggia between the arms.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

On returning to Jyväskylä in 1923 to establish his own architect's office, Aalto busied himself with a number of single-family homes, all designed in the classical style, such as the manor-like house for his mother's cousin Terho Manner in Töysa in 1923, a summer villa for the Jyväskylä chief constable in 1923 and the Alatalo farmhouse in Tarvaala in 1924.

The Duce personally gave the announcement to the widow, who was a guest at his villa in Riccione with children.

She stayed with him in his Quinta del Sordo villa until 1824 with her daughter Rosario.

The scandal provoked by Turkish dancer Haish Nana ’ s improvised striptease at a nightclub captured Fellini ’ s imagination: he decided to end his latest script-in-progress, Moraldo in the City, with an all-night “ orgy ” at a seaside villa.

Fondation Baur and Museum of the arts d ' Extrême-Orient, Parc et campagne de la Grange and Library ( neolithic shore settlement / Roman villa ), Bronze Age shore settlement of Plonjon, Temple de la Madeleine archeological site, Temple Saint-Gervais archeological site, Old City with Celtic, Roman and medieval villages

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

Yellow glass with 1 % uranium oxide was found in a Roman villa on Cape Posillipo in the Bay of Naples, Italy by R. T. Gunther of the University of Oxford in 1912.

Alternatively, they might purchase a single-family villa with a small yard at the back.

After the Villa Savoye Corbusier's experimentation with Surrealism informed his design for the Beistegui apartments, but his next villa design, for Mademoiselle Mandrot near Toulon had a regionalist agenda and relied on local stone for its finish.

The French word villanelle comes from the Italian word villanella, which derives from the Latin villa ( house ) and villano ( farmhand ); to any poet before the mid-19th century, the word villanelle or villanella would have simply meant country song, with no particular form implied.

Hadrian decorated his villa at Tibur with Isiac scenes.

Wagner, at this time, had moved into a cottage built in the grounds of Wesendonck's villa, where, during his work on Tristan und Isolde, he became passionately involved with Mathilde Wesendonck.

Around AD 150 the villa was expanded and a heated bath block with hypocaust was added.

What is certain is that the villa was never intended for occupation as it contained no kitchens and space for only three beds on the ground floor.

Bad Doberan was documented in 1177 as villa Slavica Doberan, but as early as 1171 Cistercian monks from Amelungsborn Abbey in the Weser Uplands founded a monastery in the Althof three kilometres southeast of the town, now a suburb of Bad Doberan.

The next year, Frederick Preston Rubidge designed additions to the villa, seeing it enlarged to three or four times the original size in order to accommodate the new functions and, once complete, the first Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Monck, took residence.

Norman Douglas, Friedrich Alfred Krupp, Jacques d ' Adelswärd-Fersen, Christian Wilhelm Allers, Emil von Behring, Curzio Malaparte, Axel Munthe, and Maxim Gorky are all reported to have owned a villa there, or to have stayed there for more than three months.

To celebrate the villa ’ s return to form, the Royal Institute of British Architects launched ‘ Villa Tugendhat in Context ’, an exhibition in London giving a visual history of the building and a record of the recent renovation through the testimony of three generations of photographers.

The American Academy in Berlin opened three years later in a villa on the Wannsee once owned by the German-Jewish banker Hans Arnhold.

Eligius introduced this rule, either entirely or in part, into the monastery of Solignac near Limoges, which he founded in 632 at a villa he had purchased, and also at the convent he founded at Paris, where three hundred virgins were under the guidance of the Abbess Aurea.

Major Frost ordered ' Rodney ' and the remains of ' Nelson ' to clear the machine-gun nest, whilst he led the other three detachments back to the villa, which had been reoccupied by enemy troops.

Nueva Andalucía is an area that was developed during the tourism boom of the 1960s, where may be found the ruins of the Roman villa by the Rio Verde, and El Ángel, where the land of the old forge works was converted to an agricultural colony, and the Botanical Gardens of El Ángel with gardens of three different styles, dating from the eighth century.

The day after the attack, Qatari authorities arrested three Russians in a Russian embassy villa.

The villa itself is surrounded on three sides by a sixteenth-century courtyard sited on the former Benedictine cloister.

This powerful integration of beauty and the physical representation of social meanings is apparent in three major building types: the urban palazzo, the agricultural villa, and the church.

The name of the museum derives from the first owner of the property, Alexander Brun, who named the villa after his three wives, all named Louise.

The villa is of utter complexity and the most striking feature is a platform in the very center of the house that moves freely between the three floors and allowed the client to move with his wheelchair on all three levels of the villa.

The villa was relocated by aerial photography during the extremely dry summer of 1976, when parch marks of buried walls were recorded spread across three fields.

Each villa is assigned to one of three booking categories: Magic Kingdom View, Bay Lake View, or Standard View ; with the relative cost or number of required Disney Vacation Club points assigned accordingly.

Within the village are three impressive sites: Eynsford Castle, Lullingstone Castle and the Roman villa.

Reid moved to a villa in Marbella, Spain so he could live close to a golf course which would enable him to pursue his passion of playing golf three to four times each week.

This is a premium villa project offering double-storied villas of three to seven rooms, each surrounded by a garden and garage.

Still, it appears safe for the three at Jastrow's villa, so they are unwilling to try the illegal and perilous sea voyage to Palestine.

The three parts of the novel are set in a villa on the French Riviera before the First World War, a sheep station on the edge of Australia's Snowy Mountains in the inter-war period, and in London in the lead-up to the Second World War.

Special accommodation is also provided at three villa residences, all of which stand in their own grounds and are entirely separate from the main Hospital.