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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.
Villa San Michele, Fiesole. The original building was a monastery, founded in the early years of the 15th century for the Franciscan friars. [1] The land on which it stood had been donated by a Florentine family, the Davanzatis, who also contributed to the monastery's upkeep by gifts of woodlands, further buildings and money.
Once a favored holiday destination for Queen Victoria, and reputedly described in one of the greatest works of Italian literature, the Villa Palmieri is steeped in history and could now be yours ...
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Villa Bordoni is a ‘Patrician Villa’ – the former country residence of the Bordonis, a family of wealthy merchants from the city of Florence. To understand the history of the Villa, one has to understand the history of the Greve Valley and beyond to the cluster of city-states that are known today as Italy.
Starhotels is a privately owned hotel chain based in Florence that operates 30 luxury hotels (24 in Italy, three in London, and one each in Paris and New York City).Most of the hotels are four-star hotels with The Michelangelo (formerly the Hotel Taft) in New York City and Castille Paris being five star hotels.
Villa Le Balze is a garden villa in Fiesole, a comune of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany in central Italy.The villa was commissioned and built by Charles Augustus Strong in 1913, where he spent much of his life.
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