He located the building designed for processing agricultural produce ( villa rustica fructuaria ) on a salient on the hill ( the ground plan of the villa lies near the north or main gate of the walls of later date ), and the residential building ( villa rustica habitatoria ) on the south slope exposed to the sun.

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 )

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 ").

The villa contained " his and hers " artist studios so that Albert and Adele would each have their own space within which to work.

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.

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 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.

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.

A third type of villa provided the organizational center of the large holdings called latifundia, that produced and exported agricultural produce ; such villas might be lacking in luxuries.

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.

Even incomplete, it was the most sophisticated villa design yet seen in Italy, and greatly influenced the later development of the genre ; it appears to be the only modern building in Rome of which Palladio made a measured drawing.

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.

It was one of the first London suburbs to be developed with a large amount of low density " villa " housing, as opposed to the terraced housing which was the norm in London up to the 19th century, even in expensive districts.

If the hall was the atrium of the villa, then the adjoining saloon was to be the vestibulum.

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

There used to be a Roman villa on that spot.

Burlington's use of Roman sources can be viewed in the steep-pitched dome of the villa which is derived from the Pantheon in Rome.

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.

In his villa here, Theoduadum palatium, Louis the Pious was informed of the death of his father Charlemagne in 814 and hurried to Aachen to be crowned.

Thomas Attree's villa, Queen's Park, Brighton, the only one to be built of a series of villa's designed for the area by Barry and the Pepper Pot ( 1830 ), whose original function was a water tower for the development.

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.

Newport is home to a large extent of different sports clubs, playing at all different levels of professionalism and covering all different sports, with all the main sports in the UK catered for in and around the town, with football, cricket, bowls and archery located in the Granville avenue / Audley avenue area of the town, surrounding Audley villa which was once the club house of Newport horse racing course, floodlit tennis courts are located in the High street, rugby is at top of Forton road, swimming and fishing located by Victoria park and most else can be catered for at Lillishall hall which is a national sports centre

While Hideyoshi's reason may never be known for certain, it is known that Rikyū committed seppuku at his residence within Hideyoshi's Jurakudai villa in Kyoto in 1591 on the 28th day of the 2nd month ( of the traditional Japanese lunar calendar ; or April 21 when calculated according to the modern Gregorian calendar ), at the age of seventy.

Other rooms in the villa might include an office, a temple for worship, several bedrooms, a dining room and a kitchen.

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.

Most of these villas consist of a roughly square plan with a small entrance hall with a staircase offset in the middle to one side, around which are placed the main rooms, there is then a less prominent Servants ' quarters in a wing attached to one side of the villa.

Pliny describes a secluded suite of rooms in his Laurentine villa which he used as a retreat " especially during the Saturnalia when the rest of the house is noisy with the licence of the holiday and festive cries.

The foundations of a wealthy Roman villa were found very close to Wavre, complete with a portico and many rooms.

Built of brick and concrete in the few years between the fire and Nero's suicide in 68, the extensive gold leaf that gave the villa its name was not the only extravagant element of its decor: stuccoed ceilings were applied with semi-precious stones and ivory veneers, while the walls were frescoed, coordinating the decoration into different themes in each major group of rooms.

Unlike the present arrangement, the rooms of the McKay villa for entertaining, sleeping, and service were dispersed throughout the two floors of the structure, with the main parlour located on the second level, in an oval room behind the curved, south bay.

The proportions of each room within the villa were calculated on simple mathematical ratios like 3: 4 and 4: 5, and the different rooms within the house were interrelated by these ratios.

In a true Palladian house ( one villa designed by Palladio himself ), the central portion behind the portico would contain the principal rooms, while the lower flanking wings were domestic offices usually leading to terminating pavilions which would often be agricultural in use.

Smith conducted formal dinners at his villa, an estate surrounded by gardens and terraces, with two large drawing rooms decorated with mosaics, oriental rugs and art treasures.

The numerous rooms, salons and halls with their marbles and frescoes, and the architecture of the great palazzo-like villa are still as impressive and daunting as they were first intended to be.

The villa also housed a collection of 80 sculptures of magnificent quality, many now conserved in the rooms of the large bronzes at the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

Clissold House, the former villa within the Park, is a Grade II listed building ; the house serves as refreshment rooms and as an event location.

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

The villa had one of the richest collections of mosaic floors of any building in Roman Britain with remains found in 20 of the 41 rooms.

The 1st century AD villa consisted of galleries around an atrium with eight columns and rooms behind the galleries.

The thermae of Mediana were probably used by the owners of the villa, who could reach them directly from their rooms.

The main rooms of the villa, including the Loggia, are open to visitors ( see

He proudly wrote to his friend George Washington Greene: " I live in a great house which looks like an Italian villa: have two large rooms opening into each other.

Among her philanthropies is the establishment of the Wendy and Emery Reves wing of the Dallas Museum of Art in 1985 ( a recreation of six rooms of the Reveses ' villa ), which displays the Reveses ' extensive art collection as it was originally displayed at their villa, and the Wendy and Emery Reves Center for International Studies at the College of William & Mary ( established with a $ 3 million grant ).

The villa ( Jugetsu-kan ) is irregularly shaped, with three principal rooms of 15, 12, and 5 tatami mats in size ; the largest contains a raised section for the emperor, as well as a drawing of " The Three Laughing Sages of Kokei " said to be by Ganku ( 1756-1839 ).