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The Italian term trullo (from the Greek word τρούλος, cupola) refers to a house whose internal space is covered by a dry stone corbelled or keystone vault. Trullo is an Italianized form of the dialectal term, truddu, used in a specific area of the Salentine peninsula (i.e. Lizzaio, Maruggio, and Avetrana, in other words, outside the Murgia dei Trulli proper), where it is the name of the ...
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The first historical examples of luxury houses or luxury villas, are from the period of the Roman Empire. In particular, the villas of Roman Emperors , represented the quintessential luxury. Today some are protected as Heritage archaeological of inestimable value and as UNESCO World Heritage Site , as, for example, Hadrian's Villa .
A typical cascina is a square-yarded farm (sometimes having multiple yards) located at the centre of a large piece of cultivated land. Different types of brick-wall buildings are lined on the perimeter of the courtyard, which typically includes houses (usually a main house for the farm owner's or tenant's family, and simpler buildings for the peasants' families), stables, barns, fountains ...
A house may have a separate dining room, or the eating area may be integrated into the kitchen or another room. Some large houses in North America have a recreation room. In traditional agriculture-oriented societies, domestic animals such as chickens or larger livestock (like cattle) may share part of the house with humans.
The traditional view was that southern Italy including Bruttii was insignificant economically and declined further in the last centuries of the empire (see Crisis of the Third Century) as elsewhere, but the wealth of the Villa at Palazzi di Casignana in the 4th century, one of many examples in the region that have been discovered since about 1990, [6] shows that the area enjoyed a long period ...
Italy has an estimated total of 100,000 monuments of all varieties (museums, palaces, buildings, statues, churches, art galleries, villas, fountains, historic houses and archaeological remains). [4] Now Italy is in the forefront of modernist and sustainable design with architects like Renzo Piano and Carlo Mollino .