Villa Rossa is located in Florence in Piazza Savonarola 15, corner of Via dei Della Robbia . The building is currently home to Syracuse University in Florence .
The building was built in 1886 for the industrialist Mario Gigliucci , who also took care of some of the drawings. It stands out from the dominant typology of late nineteenth-century villas for its adherence to a taste that was already typical of the early twentieth century, however closed to modernist instances and far from immune to the tradition of eclecticism.
With an irregular plan, it has a three-axis elevation flush with the square, with the ground covered with a row of stone, the upper floor with a corner loggia (decorated with neo-fourteenth-century motifs) and the top floor with a covered terrace with a Florentine gutter. Another volume is attached to this one, slightly set back, which, on the side of Via dei Della Robbia , has windows framed in stone according to a sixteenth-century typology and is enriched by a terrace. The building is surrounded by a garden which gives the property the name of villa, Rossa for the brick-red paintwork given to the facades.