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.

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

* Some studies propose that the Villa Medici in Fiesole might owe its design to Alberti, not to Michelozzo, and that it then became the prototype of the Renaissance villa.

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 ".

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.

The area is famous for its villa architecture.

The villa was added to the French register of historical monuments in 1965, becoming the first modernist building designated as historical monument in France, and also the first to be the object of renovation while its architect was still living.

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.

A villa might be quite palatial, such as the imperial villas built on seaside slopes overlooking the Bay of Naples at Baiae ; others were preserved at Stabiae and Herculaneum by the ashfall and mudslide from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, which also preserved the Villa of the Papyri and its libraries.

The Natolin faction-named after the place where its meetings took place, in a government villa in Natolin-were against the post-Stalinist liberalization programs ( Gomułka thaw ) and they proclaimed simple nationalist and antisemitic slogans as part of a strategy to gain power.

Kip explains that the Germans often booby-trapped musical instruments with bombs, and that he will stay in the villa to rid it of its dangers.

A château is supported by its terres ( lands ), composing a demesne that renders the society of the château largely self-sufficient, in the manner of the historic Roman and Early Mediæval villa system, ( cf.

Under its director, the painter Jean-Victor Schnetz, the villa provided an ideal environment in which Bizet and his fellow-laureates could pursue their artistic endeavours.

In October 2005 Professor Harold V. Livermore ( 1914 – 2010 ), its owner for 60 years, gave Sandycombe Lodge, the villa at Twickenham which Turner designed and built for himself, to the Sandycombe Lodge Trust to be preserved as a monument to the artist.

His next project was to record a live album at his Tuscan villa, which was to be released as a CD and DVD, as well as being simulcast in its entirety on the internet.

On July 29, 1848, and as a result of this explosive growth, the Ponce hamlet was declared a villa ( village ) by Queen Isabella II, and in 1877 the village obtained its city charter.

* Tara, Cairo, villa in Gezira Island, Cairo, made famous by its inhabitants during World War II

* In Steenwijk the villa " Ramswoerthe ", built in 1899 in Jugendstil architecture, and its park can be visited.

After completion of the villa in 1729, Burlington later provided inspiration to other architects for numerous other buildings, such as Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester at Holkham Hall, Norfolk Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood House, and the Mansion House, nicknamed the " Egyptian Hall " for its columns.

Palladio's influence can also be found in the general cubic form of the villa with its central hall with other rooms leading off its axis.

At first, the villa and its gardens were in a sad state, and they had to be renovated in order to house the winners of the Prix de Rome.

On the outskirts of Welwyn are the remains of a 3rd century Roman bath-house, which was once part of the Dicket Mead villa.

Crossing the Aniene and turning to the right, the path rises along the left face off the ravine and soon reaches the site of Nero's villa and of the huge mole which formed the lower end of the middle lake ; across the valley were ruins of the Roman baths, of which a few great arches and detached masses of wall still stand.

Libraries were amenities suited to a villa, such as Cicero's at Tusculum, Maecenas's several villas, or Pliny the Younger's, all described in surviving letters.

" After the many wedding parties were over the newlyweds moved into the Anichkov Palace in St. Petersburg where they were to live for the next 15 years, when they were not taking extended holidays at their summer villa Livadia in the Crimea.

That Shaykh Ali bin Abdullah spent extravagantly, owned a villa in Switzerland, and hunted in Pakistan fueled discontent, especially among those who were excluded from the regime's largesse ( non-Al Thani Qataris ) and those who were not excluded but thought they deserved more ( other branches of the Al Thani ).

In the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon notes that the disciples of Saint Severinus of Noricum were invited by a " Neapolitan lady " to bring his body to the villa in 488, " in the place of Augustulus, who was probably no more.

The remains of a Roman era villa from the 2nd-3rd Century AD and an Early Middle Ages cemetery were also found nearby.

A visit to the villa of Cardinal Luigi d ' Este in 1573 convinced Pope Gregory XIII to start the building of a summer residence the following year, in an area considered healthier than the Vatican Hill or Lateran: His architects were Flaminio Ponzio and Ottaviano Nonni, called Mascherino ; under Pope Sixtus V, works were continued by Domenico Fontana ( the main facade on the Piazza ) and Carlo Maderno, and by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Clement XII.

In the Saxon period, the ruins of a Roman temple-mausoleum on the site of the villa were incorporated into a Christian chapel ( Lullingstane Chapel ) that was extant at the time of the Norman Conquest, one of the earliest known chapels in the country.

The villa was excavated in the period 1949 – 61 by archaeologists, and the ruins themselves were preserved under a specially-designed cover in the 1960s, when the villa was taken over by English Heritage, who opened the ruins to the public.

According to Pliny the Elder, there were two kinds of villas: the villa urbana, which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome ( or another city ) for a night or two, and the Villa rustica, the farm-house estate permanently occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate.

In Etruria, the villa at Settefinestre has been interpreted as being one of the latifundia, or large slave-run villas, that were involved in large-scale agricultural production.

By the 4th century, villa could simply connote an agricultural holding: Jerome translated the Gospel of Mark ( xiv, 32 ) chorion, describing the olive grove of Gethsemane, with villa, without an inference that there were any dwellings there at all ( Catholic Encyclopedia " Gethsemane ").

The villa fructuaria would be the storage rooms. These would be where the products of the farm were stored ready for transport to buyers.

He and his partner hear her playing piano, and, as musical instruments were often wired, entered the villa to stop her.

The town plan has later been criticised because the unique villa environment was disrupted and many of the beautiful villas were demolished.

The tall paintings are couched in a tender and dream-like poetic vein, and were most likely originally situated at Consul Smith's villa at Mogliano.

On 29 August 1935, while the King and Queen were driving along the winding, narrow roads near their villa at Küssnacht am Rigi, Schwyz, Switzerland on the shores of Lake Lucerne, Leopold lost control of the car which plunged into the lake, killing Queen Astrid and her unborn fourth child.

In 1997, the remains of a Roman villa were also discovered containing several well preserved rooms with frescoes and mosaics in a condition rarely found outside sites such as Pompei.

Was it made to stand in the Senator & Consul's villa, recently discovered in one of the painted alcoves now excavated and open for visits on the Palatine Hill in Rome?

Many archaeological sites and ancient ruins are located inside or around the town, as the prehistoric step pyramid of Monte d ' Accoddi, a large number of Nuraghes and Domus de Janas ( Fairy Houses ), the ruins of a Roman aqueduct, the ruins of a Roman villa discovered under San Nicholas Cathedral, and a portion of the ancient road that connected the Latin city of Turrys Lybissonis with Caralis.

A Roman villa from the 2nd-4th centuries and a 6th-7th century cemetery have been discovered.

At their hotel, Tintin receives a threatening telephone call warning him to leave the island, and Haddock receives one from Castafiore, who has discovered their presence on the island, and, informing them that Akass is in Rome for a few days, invites them to the villa.

The villa is a 1, 700-year-old ' stately home ' and was discovered by accident in 1864 It is the remains of one of the largest Romano-British villas in England featuring several mosaics, two bathhouses, hypocausts ( underfloor heating ), a water-shrine and a latrine.

Bronze Age swords have been discovered near here and an Iron Age settlement and Roman villa stood at Eccles.

In 1857, Gustave Thuret discovered the wonderful, unspoilt Cap d ' Antibes and bought five hectares of land where he built a villa and began the creation of a park.

Marius managed to escape to Africa, but Sulpicius was discovered in a villa at Laurentum and put to death ; his head was sent to Sulla and exposed in the forum, and his laws annulled.

At Oberwichtrach both the main building ( pars urbana ) and the industrial section ( pars rustica ) of a Roman villa have been discovered.

Evidence of human settlement was discovered during the Roman era ; according to Suetonius, when the foundations for the villa of Augustus were being excavated, giant bones and ' weapons of stone ' were discovered.

In the mid-1980s, during sand excavations in the Nene valley, the remains of a Roman villa were discovered.

A number of Romano-British sites have been discovered and studied on the Isle of Purbeck, including a villa at Bucknowle Farm near Corfe Castle, excavated between 1976 and 1991.

According to the Times, Spanish police discovered that on up to five different occasions in 1999 Putin had secretly visited a villa in Spain belonging to Berezovsky.

From the 1860s on the wealthy Bourgeoisie of Berlin discovered Charlottenburg as a residential area, among the first were Gerson von Bleichröder and Ernst Werner von Siemens, who had a villa built in the Berliner Straße in 1862.

Keynsham Clock TowerEvidence of occupation dates back to prehistoric times, and the town site is scattered with Roman remains, such as the Roman villas at Somerdale which were discovered during the construction of the factory in 1922, and included the discovery of two stone coffins, a villa with nine intact panels of mosaic flooring at Durley Hill and a burial site between Keynsham and Saltford.

Roman baths were discovered in 1961 and, close by, the remains of a Roman villa containing two sculptures, one of which is the well known " Venus of Fuengirola " exhibited in the town's museum.

The remains of an Iron Age hill fort at Cadbury Hill have been discovered, as well as a Roman villa, temple and hoard of coins.

In the 1970s, while working on foundation of a terrace of the Le Prieuré building, the corner of a large Roman era villa was discovered.

The L-shaped courtyard villa was discovered in 1888.

A Roman villa was discovered in East Coker in the 18th century and subsequent excavation has discovered artefacts including a mosaic, however further work is needed to fully identify the plan of the building.

A 2nd and 3rd century Roman villa of some pretentions was discovered at Wellhouse in Victorian times.