Villa (history)

The Latin word villa indicates a land field comprising of the dwelling and farm buildings. One distinguishes, at the time Roman, the villa of countryside of the suburban Villa.

Villa Roman and Gallo-Roman

In France

In Italy

  • Villa Hadrienne of the emperor Hadrian with Tivoli
  • Roman Villa of Casale (Sicily)

In Belgium

  • Gallo-Roman Villa of Low-Wavre

Villa during the Early middle ages

During the Rebirth

In Italy

In Tuscan, many villas dating from the Médicis, known as villas médicéennes.
  • In the immediate surroundings of Florence: Villa Petraia, Villa of Careggi, Villa of Castello, Villa Médicis de Belcanto, Villa Pietra, Villa Salviati, Villa Demidoff, Villa I Tatti, Villa Gamberaia, Imperial Villa of Poggio, Villa It Gioello, Villa Calamai, villa di Poggio has Caiano, villa Ferdinanda.
  • Close to Fiesole: The Villa Medici, Balze, Cast iron Lucente, Villa Schifanoia, the Villa Pratolino with Vaglia

In Venezia, the villas of Palladio established by the architect Andrea Palladio: of which the Villa Rotonda, the Villa Godi Malinverni (examples among the 24).

The Villa génoise, with terrace, arcades and trompe-l'oeil painting, whose model was applied in France in many buildings:

  • the museum Henri Matisse with Nice, named Villa of the arenas
  • the Faure museum with Aix-the-Baths

External bonds

  • the villa of Montmaurin, France
  • the villa of Valentine, France
  • villa in Seine-Maritime
  • the Gallo-Roman villa of Low-Wavre, Belgium

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