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.

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

He redesigned the house in the style of a villa and had the gardens laid out in the latest Dutch fashion creating what was almost certainly Ireland's first naturalistic garden.

A luxury villa near Gagri was given to him by Beria.

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.

His favorite holiday place to do this was in Cadenabbia, Italy, in a rented villa overlooking Lake Como, which has since been acquired as a conference centre by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the political foundation established by Adenauers political party Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ).

After Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914, Krupp bought his villa Blühnbach, in Werfen in the Austrian Alps, and which was a former residence of the Archbishops of Salzburg.

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.

He was in his villa of Doué-la-Fontaine, Anjou, when he received news of his father's death.

Manorialism, an essential element of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practised in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market economy and new forms of agrarian contract.

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.

That Ahmad ibn Ali issued the formal announcement from his Swiss villa instead of from his Doha palace indicated to many Qataris that it was time for a change.

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 villa was converted into a monastery before 500 to hold the saint's remains.

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.

The villa was expropriated by of the town of Poissy in 1958, which first used it as a public youth center and later considered demolishing it to make way for a schoolhouse complex.

The villa at 56 – 58 Am Großen Wannsee, where the Wannsee Conference was held, now a memorial and museum

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

In 1835 Pope Gregory XVI added the Villa Gregoriana, a villa complex pivoting around the Aniene's falls.

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.

Minto's successor, the Earl Grey, added the governor general's study to the far east end of the Monck Wing, thus symmetrically balancing out the curved bay and pediment of the original McKay villa to the west.

In 2004 the Scottish Civic Trust added the villa to the register of " Buildings at Risk ".

Museo Topografico, Florence. These first examples of Renaissance villa predate the age of Lorenzo de ' Medici, who added the Villa di Poggio a Caiano by Giuliano da Sangallo, begun in 1470, in Poggio a Caiano, Province of Prato, Tuscany.

He added a seventh property to his property portfolio in January 2010 and now has a 1 million pound apartment in an alpine resort, along with a £ 1. 35m London flat, a £ 7m pad in Hamptons, a £ 5m villa in Mustique, a house in the south of France, a £ 2m townhouse and a modest £ 85, 000 home in his St. Helens constituency.

The imperial villa, which fell into disuse after the construction of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, was then called Massa Caesariana, and much later eventually became the property of the Holy See, was added to the Patrimonium Appiae ( See Patrimonium Sancti Petri ). Gaetano Moroni, Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica-Castel-Gandolfo, vol.

They live in an apartment in Coogee, in eastern Sydney, and a villa in the French Côte d ' Azur-where they spend about half of each year.

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.

Villain comes from the Anglo-French and Old French vilein, which itself descends from the Late Latin word villanus, meaning " farmhand ", in the sense of someone who is bound to the soil of a villa, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in Late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul.

From Sperlonga, the French began working their way overland across the mountains, to outflank the Neapolitans at the old villa, and by dawn on the 29th were in position to attack.

The thieves broke into the villa on the French Riviera where they were staying, rendered Constantine and Woodall unconscious with chloroform, and then continued to steal money and jewellery.

The incident occurred while they were sleeping at a friend's villa on the French Riviera.

When Hütteldorf became part of the French occupied zone, the villa was occupied by General Bethouart ; Elisabeth and Leopold were not allowed to return until 1955, when the Allied occupation ended.

The Reinachs spent time on the French Riviera and in 1902 hired the artchitect Emmanuel Pontremoli to design a villa at Beaulieu-sur-Mer.

On Russian requests, French authorities have raided his villa in Nice in search of documents, and seized his two yachts parked at the French Riviera.

* Ferdinand Bac ( 1859 – 1952 ), French illustrator, lithographer, and writer, undertook the development of the gardens of the villa des Colombières in Menton.

Bond returns to his villa to find Nicole, his French contact, dead, having been killed by Blush.

In 1945, he fled to the Tyrol where he received through the French occupying power a small rented villa at Igls.

A true estate ( the medieval villa, French ville ) always contains at least one complete village and its church.

The villa grounds have an extensive set of 7 gardens designed in different styles: French Traditional, Florentine, Spanish, Exotic, Lapidary, Japanese, Provençal.

Jean-Baptiste Faure ( 1830 – 1914 ), the great French operatic baritone whose career centred on Paris and London, also owned a villa there.

This is interpreted as referring either to a megalithic column used in ancient times for druidic cult which stood in Colombes until its destruction during the French Revolution, or to the columns of an atrium in a ruined Gallo-Roman villa that also stood in Colombes.

Seventeen-year-old Cécile spends her summer in a villa on the French Riviera with her father and his mistress.

The villa previously belonged to Olivier Voutier, a French naval officer, whose grave is in the garden.

* VillaNoailles-the site of Villa Noailles, an avant-garde villa turned cultural center, home of the Hyères Fashion and Photography Festival, MIDI French Riviera Festival, Design Parade and other events.