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  • Pallavicini Garden

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    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 Carlotta

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  • Villa Melzi

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  • Villa Raimondi

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    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 Lucini Passalacqua

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    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 eleventh century that

  • Villa del Balbianello

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    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.

  • Villa Pliniana

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    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.

  • Villa Serbelloni

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  • Villa Viviani, Settignano

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    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. The young Michelangelo lived with a sculptor and his wife in Settignano—in a farmhouse that is now the "Villa Michelangelo"— where his father owned a marble quarry.

  • Villa di Quarto

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    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.

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