Presumably, Domitian's villa contained important artistic works, such as the Apollo and the Faun With the Transverse Flute, and a spa.

The villa contained two residences, the Palazzo Sistino or " di Termini " (" of the Baths ") and the casino, called the Palazzetto Montalto e Felice.

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.

The installation was composed of two distinct areas ; a villa approximately from the edge of a cliff which contained the radar station itself, and an enclosure containing a number of smaller buildings which contained a small garrison.

A Roman building considered to be a temple or a basilican villa was unearthed in 1823, which contained a mosaic depicting Bacchus seated on a tiger.

It eventually included a Palladian bridge ( 1738 ); a Temple of Venus ( 1731 ), in the form of a Palladian villa ; A Temple of Ancient Virtues ( 1737 ), with statues of famous Greeks and Romans ; a Temple of British Worthies ( 1734 – 1735 ), with statues of British heroes ; and a Temple of Modern Virtues, which was deliberately left in ruins, which contained a headless statue of Robert Walpole, Cobham's political rival.

Even though a Roman villa in nearby Torre Annunziata ( formerly known as Oplontis ), located not far from Pompeii, is referred to as the Villa Poppaea as though it were certain, it is most likely that this villa was not hers.

His duties as commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces — and hers as his hostess at a villa near Paris — delayed work on their dream home, finally completed in 1955.

She posed for hers in 1904 at their villa, the Palazzo Giustiniani, in Venice.

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.

In 1995 the abandoned villa was acquired by the artist Rainer Maria Latzke, who restored the villa and added new modern murals to the already existing frescoes.

He wrote a poem for each scene in the garden and commissioned a famous artist, to paint scenes of the garden on the walls of his villa.

Between 1506 – 1510, the Sienese artist and pupil of Bramante, Baldassarre Peruzzi, aided by Giuliano da Sangallo, designed and erected the villa.

The interior of the villa was decorated to the Grand Duchess ' requirements by the artist Matteo Rosselli.

Kip's partner leaves the villa and dies so Kip stays on, setting up camp in the courtyard.

Then they headed south to Ragusa, where Arthur later was to spend so many happily married years in his own villa on the sea.

The Roman villa excavated by Cunliffe's team was so large that it became known as Fishbourne Roman Palace, and a museum was erected to protect and preserve some of the remains in situ.

The name is a corruption of villa de Iseldon Berners ( 1274 ), being so called after the Berners family: powerful medieval manorial lords who gained ownership of a large part of Islington after the Norman Conquest.

Charlotte died in December 1754 and Lady Burlington died in September 1758, so the villa and gardens passed to the Cavendish family, as did numerous other Boyle residences including Bolton Abbey, Londesborough Hall in the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Lismore Castle in Ireland.

Originally Birkerød consisted of eight individual villages ( Birkerød, Kajerød, Bistrup, Ravnsnæs, Isterød, Høsterkøb, Sandbjerg and Ubberød ) and did so until the 1940s when the construction of villa neighborhoods slowly erased the village borders and formed one town.

Every castle she lived in was equipped with a gymnasium, the Knights ' Hall of the Hofburg was converted into one, mats and balance beams were installed in her bedchamber so that she could practice on them each morning, and the imperial villa at Ischl was fitted with gigantic mirrors so that she could correct every movement and position.

He planned the villa on generous proportions so as to provide accommodation for his guests and for his large domestic staff which is said to have included cooks, food tasters, torch bearers, pantryboys, wig makers, a winder of the clocks in the palace, physicians, as well as a baker to make black bread forfeeding his hunting dogs!

A cholera epidemic in Italy forced him to stop at Cannes, where he enjoyed the climate and scenery so much that he bought land and built a villa.

Edith Wharton wrote The Age of Innocence ( 1920 ) at a villa near Hyères, winning the Pulitzer Prize for the novel ( the first woman to do so ).

Retiring to his villa, Casa Amarilla at Barracas, Brown was visited by Grenfell, his opponent in the Brazilian war, who remarked how ungrateful the Republic was to its good servants ; the old Admiral replied: " Mr Grenfell, it does not burden me to have been useful to the mother country of my children ; I consider the honours and the wealth superfluous when six feet of earth are enough to rest so many difficulties and pains.

It was labour-intensive to run a hypocaust as it required constant attention to tend the fire, and expensive in fuel, so it was a feature of the villa and public baths.

Craxi's lifestyle was perceived to be inappropriate for the secretary of a party with so many alleged financial problems: he lived in the Raphael, an expensive hotel in Rome's centre, and had a large villa in Hammamet, Tunisia.

Massive foundations, sited so far from a Roman frontier, were attributed by C. Jullian to a temple or a villa instead.

The west and the south-west lie Behind the hill so that the villa is exposed to six of the eight winds.

To reward him for this, the StB gave him a car and a villa back in Czechoslovakia, and also paid Frenzel an enormous salary, placed into a Czechoslovak bank so as not to arouse West German suspicion.

The pentagonal fortress foundations, constructed probably between 1515 and 1530, became the base upon which the present villa sits ; so the overall form of the villa was predetermined by the rocca foundations.

Constructed and inhabited in 1556, the villa therefore functioned for the management of the fields and was simultaneously a visible sign of the “ feudal ” presence, so to speak, of Badoer in the territory: it is not coincidental that the building rises on the site of an ancient medieval castle.

But more probably, the name is coming from the Hungarian word dió ( nut as fruit ) with the suffix-d, so, after the first documentary citation, " villa Gyog " from 1291 appeared as Dyod és Dyog ( 1397 ), Aldyogh ( 1407 ), Algyogh ( 1412 ), Aldyod ( 1439 ), Alsodyod alio nomine Alsoffalwa ( around 1444 ).

As the historical novelist Clive Ashman so vividly puts it in “ MOSAIC – the Pavement that Walked ” ( Voreda Books ) his fictionalised account of not only the true-life, 1948 theft of a Roman mosaic from Brough, but also the original fate of the Roman villa it came from ( and of the Ala Picentiana itself ): “ As for the glorious Ala traceable back to Julius Caesar ’ s Gallic Wars, it is an inevitable truth that hundreds of years later there came one final day when its men rode jingling out of Derventio fort, never to be seen there again .”

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.

After Swift has left, Flint turns up at the villa again, remarking that he does not " keep all goods in the shop window ": He owns an estate in Kenya, and has also read Dr Johnson, so all of a sudden he does appear eligible to Mary.

With Maurice Dufour, she established a villa in Perpignan near the Spanish border and co-operated with the escape network of Albert Guérisse.

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.

The Romans invented the seaside villa: a vignette in a frescoed wall at the house of Lucretius Fronto in Pompeii still shows a row of seafront pleasure houses, all with porticos along the front, some rising up in porticoed tiers to an altana at the top that would catch a breeze on the most stifling evenings ( Veyne 1987 ill. p 152 )

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

Storage rooms here would have been used for oil, wine, grain, grapes and any other produce of the villa.

He suggested that the villa milieu would be kept, but that the number of inhabitants would be significantly raised, from 2, 500 to 10, 000, and that the unmodern villas would be replaced by new ones.

He boasted that if elected pope he would buy each cardinal a villa to escape the summer heat.

Although Miller had little or no money the first year in Paris, things began to change with the meeting of Anaïs Nin who, with Hugh Guiler, would go on to pay his entire way through the 1930s including the rent for the beautiful and modern apartment at 18, villa Seurat.

When the Bourbon rule collapsed in 1860 ( see Francis II of the Two Sicilies ) a British man named James Stevenson bought the northern part of the island, built a villa, reopened the local mines and planted vineyards for grapes that would later be used to make Malmsey wine.

The 1920 Vision for the community was that wealthy retired Northerners would purchase one of the lots in Temple Terrace, build a Mediterranean Revival villa on the lot and also purchase a parcel in the extensive adjoining citrus grove to either manage as a hobby or provide extra income.

Fox would increasingly spend time away from Parliament at Armistead's rural villa, St. Ann's Hill, near Chertsey in Surrey, where Armistead's influence gradually moderated Fox's wilder behaviour and together they would read, garden, explore the countryside and entertain friends.

Landru would seduce the women who came to his Parisian villa and, after he was given access to their assets, he would kill them and burn their dismembered bodies in his oven.

They also announced that the informant ( possibly the owner of the villa in Mosul in which the brothers were killed ) would receive the combined $ 30 million reward previously offered for their apprehension.

* 1460 ( Chōroku 3 ): Yoshimasa initiated planning for construction of a retirement villa and gardens as early as 1460 ; and after his death, this property would become a Buddhist temple called Jisho-ji ( also known as Ginkaku-ji or the " Silver Pavilion ").

On the garden side of the palace, which faced the River Tiber, Michelangelo proposed the innovatory design of a bridge which, if completed, would have linked the palace with the gardens of the Vigna Farnese, Alessandro's holding on the opposite bank, that later became incorporated into the adjacent villa belonging to the Chigi family, which the Farnese purchased in 1584 and renamed the Villa Farnesina.

According to Pliny the Elder, writing in the first century CE, there were several 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 that was permanently occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate, which would centre on the villa itself, perhaps only seasonally occupied.

With the troubles that would lead to the Civil War brewing, he decided not to return to England, and instead settled first in Antwerp and then into a villa near Padua, in Italy.

Nelson would clear and secure German positions defending the evacuation beach, whilst Jellicoe, Hardy and Drake would capture the radar site and a nearby villa occupied by Luftwaffe radar technicians and their guards ; Rodney was the reserve formation, placed between the radar site and the main likely enemy approach to block any counter-attack.