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Roman villas in France (6 P) Pages in category "Villas in France" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Pages in category "Roman villas in France" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. J.
Roman villas in northwestern Gaul (modern France) functioned as colonial economic centers. Most villas did not resemble the luxurious, aristocratic country retreats of the Mediterranean region . Their owners were absentee investors (or the emperor himself), managed by local Gauls whose families were rewarded after the Gallo-Roman wars.
16 Villa Girasole – Large and important two-storey neo-classical residence constructed in 1889, set within a large garden. Internal features include an impressive foyer and double-width staircase. [53] 17 Villa Le Rose de France – Monaco residence of banker Baron Maurice Ephrussi and his wife Charlotte-Béatrice née de Rothschild ...
Villa Lysis (initially, La Gloriette; today, Villa Fersen) is a villa on Capri built by industrialist and poet Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen in 1905. "Dedicated to the youth of love" (dédiée à la jeunesse d'amour [1]), it was Fersen's self-chosen exile from France after a sex scandal involving Parisian schoolboys and nude (or nearly nude) tableaux vivants.
The Villa La Vigie is situated at 30-37 Boulevard Edouard-Baudoin on the waterfront of Cap d'Antibes near Juan-les-Pins in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. [1] [2]It was built in 1912 in a neo-Gothic style influenced by local Mediterranean architecture and is painted pink. [1] '
The villa La Mauresque is located in cap Ferrat (Alpes-Maritimes) and was remodeled in 1927 by Henri Delmotte, Marcel Guilgot, and the American architect Barry Dierks (1899–1960) to serve as the main residence of the British novelist Somerset Maugham. Surrounded by gardens and terraces, this villa has received numerous writers and celebrities.
Villa Kerylos in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, is a house in Ancient Greek Revival style built in the early 1900s by French archaeologist Theodore Reinach. It has been listed since 1966 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture .