Two marble busts from the 2nd century found in the cellar perhaps depict the owners or residents of the villa, which may have been the designated country retreat of the provincial governors.

Fragments of the mosaics, the stucco and several elements of sculptures attest to the wealth of the owners of the villa.

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

The other contains private villa residences for professionals and second holiday homes whose owners are mainly from Cairo.

His projects included Chiswick House, Stowe, Buckinghamshire, from about 1730 onwards, designs for Alexander Pope's villa garden at Twickenham, for Queen Caroline at Richmond and notably at Rousham House, Oxfordshire, where he created a sequence of Arcadian set-pieces punctuated with temples, cascades, grottoes, Palladian bridges and exedra, opening the field for the larger scale achievements of Capability Brown in the following generation.

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!

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.

In 1932, his villa designs were included by Alberto Sartoris in his guide to modern architecture, Gli elementi dell ' architettura razionale.

Lucullus brought back to Rome first-hand experience of Persian gardening in the hilly sites of Asia Minor ; the villa gardens of Maecenas, which included libraries open to scholars, incurred the disdain of Seneca.

The finds included a moderately large villa at Chew Park, where wooden writing tablets ( the first in the UK ) with ink writing were found.

The biggest villa was the Villa of Domitian at Castel Gandolfo, a large complex that partly enclosed Villa Barberini, and embraced a large territory that included Lake Albano and numerous imperially owned buildings.

It was a renowned resort in Roman times and included the villa of Cicero, which later held the remains of emperor Hadrian.

These properties included her father's villa at Da Lat, which is now Lam Dong Museum.

One of the most sumptuous sets was the villa of Quintus Arrius, which included 45 working fountains and of pipes.

His designs for the villa included everything from layout to interior decorations ; for his furniture Stuck received another gold medal at the 1900 Paris World Exposition.

By 1880, his works included residential terraces in the Italianate style, places of worship in diverse styles ( Romanesque Revival and Neo-Byzantine ), a High Gothic working men's club and an Italianate villa.

The villa comprises an area of about 6. 000 m² ( 98, 6 x 63 m ) and included thermae on the west side and a smaller nymphaeum on the east side.

Dovecotes were included in several of the villa designs of Andrea Palladio.

The villa included a grotto where some noteworthy sculptures, now housed in the museum, have been found: these portrayed the assault of Scylla to Odysseus ' ship, the blinding of Polyphemus, the theft of the Palladium and Odysseus lifting Achilles's corpse.

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.

Concerned that the " Milan commission " might threaten Caroline, he sent his brother James to Caroline's villa in the hope of establishing whether George had any grounds for divorce.

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.

On July 2, 1887, Henry moved his family into their summer villa on Silver Lake: Helen Steel ( 21 ), Mary Jane ( 17 ), Charles William ( 15 ), Henry Jaquess ( 13 ), Margaret ( 11 ), Anne ( 9 ) and James Timothy ( 6 ).

* Holmwood House, Glasgow: A picturesque suburban villa built in 1857-8 for papermill-owner James Couper, possibly the finest work of Alexander ' Greek ' Thomson.

James Gordon Bennett Jr, the son and heir of the founder of the New York Herald, had a villa in Beaulieu.

Three works from of that period are of European importance, and would contribute to the further development of Renaissance architecture: the Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik, in 1441 by Giorgio da Sebenico ; the Chapel of Blessed John from Trogir in 1468 by Niccolò Fiorentino ; and Sorkočević's villa in Lapad near Dubrovnik in 1521.

James Macpherson, the translator and author of the Ossian's Poems, had a villa on Putney Heath.

In 1929, the school bought Cannons, a modest villa on the site of a palatial residence originally built in the early 18th century by James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, and relocated to the property in 1940.

Vizcaya, now named the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay in the present day Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida.

Lord Campion invites James to his villa for lunch, an invitation he is delighted to accept, also enjoying the opportunity to turn down a half-hearted invitation from Grace and the Sopwith siblings in the process.

Since 1984, the company has been headquartered in Gaddesden Place, Hemel Hempstead, an 18th century Palladian style villa, designed by the celebrated architect James Wyatt, built in 1768 and reputed to be his first building in the UK.

Overwhelmed by more powerful forces, Doge Ludovico Manin resigned and retired to his villa at Passariano in Friuli and the thousand year old Republic disappeared as an independent state.

With the Cairoli dead, command was assumed by John Tobacco who had retreated back with the remaining volunteers into the villa, where they continued to fire at the papal soldiers, which drew back in the evening and retired to Rome.

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.

In 1967, Marcel Mule retired to a villa near the Mediterranean, with his saxophone, though he never played it again.

He retired first to a villa on the Neckar near Heidelberg and later to Bonn.

When the news was brought to Thrasea at his suburban villa, where he was entertaining a number of friends and sympathisers, he retired to a bedroom, and had the veins of both his arms opened.

After their violent deaths she retired from Rome to a villa in Misenum, but continued to receive guests.

In 1691, he retired to his villa, Seizan-sō.

The public sent over 250, 000 goodwill messages and she retired to her villa on Capri.

Following the scandal, Lambton retired, separated from his wife and bought Villa Cetinale a 17th century villa in Tuscany, where he lived with Claire Ward, née Baring, daughter of the cricketer Giles Baring.

He continued to appear in public for a few more years, all the way till 1806, where he retired for good and moved to his villa at Inzago, where he died on 14 December 1829.

Guicciardini supported Cosimo as duke of Florence, however, Cosimo dismissed him shortly after his rise to power and Guicciardini retired to his villa in Arcetri, where he spent his last years working on the Storia d ' Italia.

After a reading-tour to Rochester, Buffalo, and Syracuse, she retired with a large fortune to her villa at Newport, where she was seized with her final illness, and in October went to Boston and placed herself under medical treatment.

Her last performance was in the Minkus / Petipa ballet La Camargo on January 28, 1901 after which she retired to live in her villa at Lake Como.

From continued indisposition, and consequent inability to undergo the fatigues of military life, he disposed of his commission, and retired, with his wife and two children, to the villa of Rosebank, of which he became the owner.

When he retired from public life to a villa in southern Italy, she accompanied him.

Boccaccio became famous principally for the Italian work, Decamerone, a collection of a hundred novels, related by a party of men and women who retired to a villa near Florence to escape the plague in 1348.

The Higashiyama Period ( 東山時代 ) also known as the period of " Higashiyama Culture " or, is a segment of Japanese culture originated and promoted in the 15th century by Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa, after he retired to his villa in the eastern hills ( Higashiyama ) of Kyoto.

The retired shogun also invited many artists, poets, and court nobles to his villa, encouraging the development of their arts.