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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 Medici villas are a series of rural building complexes in Tuscany which were owned by members of the Medici family between the 15th century and the 17th century. The villas served several functions: they were the country palaces of the Medici, scattered over the territory that they ruled, demonstrating their power and wealth.
Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe. The style took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state in defiance of the Reformation .
Pages in category "Houses completed in the 17th century" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 215 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Villa Cetinale is a 17th-century Baroque villa and Italian garden in Tuscany. The property is located in the hamlet of Cetinale near Sovicille , about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) west of Siena , in Tuscany, Italy .
In the sixteenth century a hunting-lodge was built overlooking the lake and on the remains of the Roman villa/vicus by the Orsini family, which was remodelled in the 17th century by Valadier as a fine palazzo known as the Villa Valadier (or Casina or Casale). In 1930 the management of the baths was entrusted to German nuns who managed it until ...
Villa La Favorita in 1829 The villa during the Siege of Mantua in 1796 The remaining fragment of the Villa which has been restored. The Villa La Favorita is a palace in Porto Mantovano, just north of Mantua, Italy. It was built in the 17th century as a residence for duke Ferdinand Gonzaga of Mantua (1587-1626).
The Villa Marlia or Villa Reale di Marlia is a late-Renaissance palazzo or villa, and its estate's property that includes renowned gardens and adjacent villas and follies within the compound. It is located in Capannori , in the Province of Lucca , west of Florence, in the northern Tuscany region of Italy.