Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini is a villa with notable 19th century park in the English romantic style and a small botanical garden. The villa now houses the Museo di Archeologia Ligure, and is located at Via Pallavicini, 13, immediately next to the railway station in Pegli, a suburb of Genoa, Italy Twain describes this gardens in his Letter #44 to Daily Alta California and used in Chapter 49 of The Innocents Abroad.
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.
A Franciscan monastery had existed on the tip of the peninsula of Dosso d'Avedo since the 13th century. The two towers which remain on the property are the campanili of the monastery's church.
The Villa di Quarto is a historic landmark designated villa on via Pietro Dazzi in Florence, in the hilly zone at the foot of the Monte Morello. Quarto (fourth) is one of the toponyms relating to the Roman milestones, the most famous of which in this area is Sesto Fiorentino, of 45,000 inhabitants.
The villa was built towards the end of the eighteenth century by the will of the Odescalchi family , after having purchased various lands that included an ancient monastery of the order of the Humiliati and the medieval church of Sant'Agata of the
Villa Plinianina is a patrician rural palace on the shores of Lake Como, located in the comune of Torno, Province of Como, region of Lombardy, Italy.
The original building dates to 17th-18th centuries, although the remains of a tower point to earlier construction. The property belonged to the Odescalchi family of Como since 1600. The Odescalchi family's most prominent member was Pope Innocent XI in the late 17th century, who frequented this site.
Villa Serbelloni
Settignano is a frazione on a hillside northeast of Florence, Italy, with views that have attracted American expatriates for generations. The little borgo of Settignano carries a familiar name for having produced three sculptors of the Florentine Renaissance, Desiderio da Settignano and the Gamberini brothers, better known as Bernardo Rossellino and Antonio Rossellino.