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Villa Saluzzo Bombrini, in the Albaro district. Villas have been one of the pillars of the social and economic history of Genoa.Since the 14th century, the villa became the symbol of the power of the aristocratic oligarchy and the wealthy merchant bourgeoisie, for whom it was the mirror of the city palace: outside the walls they conveyed the luxury and magnificence found in the city residences.
The most detailed ancient text on the meaning of "villa" is by Varro [3] (116–27 BC) dating from the end of the Republican period, which is used for most modern considerations. [4] But Roman authors (e.g. Columella [ 5 ] [4-70 AD], Cato the Elder [ 6 ] [234-149 BC]) wrote in different times, with different objectives and for aristocratic ...
The younger villa contained an upper and lower terrace with rooms on each floor. Inside one room of the younger villa, two marble statues, including one of Dionysus , were discovered. [ 12 ] In the older villa, sixteen amphorae were discovered, along with a warehouse and a furnace, which is believed to have heated a private bathroom.
The built-up area of Castel Gandolfo. In the 11th century, the powerful Basilian monastery of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata had important economic interests in the area of Castel Gandolfo, which arose and developed on the edge of the ancient imperial and then ecclesiastical property, around a church dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel, first mentioned in 1116.
The Imperial Villa of Vicarello was an ancient Roman villa-estate that belonged to the emperors starting from Domitian (r.81-96). It is situated near the north shore of Lake Bracciano and near the village of Vicarello, near the modern town of Trevignano Romano .
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Villa/Vila (or its cognates) is part of many Spanish and Portuguese placenames, like Vila Real and Villadiego: a villa/vila is a town with a charter (fuero or foral) of lesser importance than a ciudad/cidade ("city"). When it is associated with a personal name, villa was probably used in the original sense of a country estate rather than a ...
Villa Armira is composed of two floors, and it contains the typical rooms that other Roman villas would have. The two-storey U-shaped villa spreads over 3,600 square metres (39,000 sq ft) amidst a garden, with an impluvium in the middle. Villa Armira had 22 separate rooms on the ground floor alone in addition to a panoramic terrace.