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The homes on offer this time consist of single, two to three-bedroom 50 to 80 square-meter houses built with golden-brownish stones and spread over one or three floors.
Italy’s one-euro-home sales have attracted interest in recent few years, but towns like Patrica, located south of Rome, have struggled to offload their empty homes. This Italian town is ...
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 .
Access to Cinque Terre by car is possible, but parking is a major issue. The best method of transportation is by train. Trains run from La Spezia to all five towns within the Cinque Terre, as well as to major regional and national destinations. [6] The Cinque Terre railway stations are located on the Genoa-Pisa line. Most long-distance trains ...
The village of Ollolai, located in central Sardinia, is offering real estate for as little as $1.06 in a pitch to woo Americans who fancy the ex-pat lifestyle in the wake of the Nov. 5 election ...
Cinque Terre National Park (Italian: Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre) is a protected area inducted as an Italian national park in 1999. Located in the province of La Spezia , Liguria , northern Italy , it is the smallest national park in Italy at 4,300 acres, but also the densest with 5,000 permanent inhabitants among the five towns.
Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in Vicenza.One of Palladio's most influential designs. Villa Godi in Lugo Vicentino.An early work notable for lack of external decoration. The Palladian villas of the Veneto are villas designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, all of whose buildings were erected in the Veneto, the mainland region of north-eastern Italy then under the political control of the ...
On 2 December 1797, after the French established their domination in Italy, the town became part of the Department of the Gulf of Venus, with the capital in La Spezia, in the Ligurian Republic annexed to the First French Empire. From 28 April 1798 with the new French law, the territory of Portovenere fell in the seventh canton, as the capital ...