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This is a list of the main architectural works in Florence, Italy by period. It also includes buildings in surrounding cities, such as Fiesole . Some structures appear two or more times, since they were built in various styles.
Villa Palmieri on a postcard from 1896. Alexandre Dumas, père, Impressions de voyage - La villa Palmieri, 1899. The villa was certainly in existence at the end of the 14th century, when it was a possession of the Fini, who sold it in 1454 to the noted humanist scholar Matteo di Marco Palmieri, whose name it still bears.
Luxury Real Estate [ edit ] The word itself luxury derived from the Latin luxus , and associated with real estate, indicates today in Italy, a category of properties of particular value and of high historical and artistic value.
The etching of the villa by Giuseppe Zocchi, included in his Vedute delle Ville e d'altri luoghi della Toscana of 1744, depicts its handsome façade facing Florence, the series of terraces on which the house and gardens were constructed, the recent planting of young cypresses along the entrance road and southern edge of the garden avenue, and ...
Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies is a center for advanced research in the humanities located in Florence, Italy, and belongs to Harvard University. It houses a collection of Italian primitives, and of Chinese and Islamic art, as well as a research library of 140,000 volumes and a collection of 250,000 photographs.
The presence in the villa of Charles VIII of France is documented in 1495, [3] just before he was about to enter Florence with his army. Villa Pandolfini remained substantially the same until the 17th century, when Filippo Pandolfini [ 4 ] made some alterations: constructing a large terrace on the main facade towards the Via Livornese, and the ...
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Villa il Gioiello ("The Jewel") is a villa in Florence, central Italy, famous for being one of the residences of Galileo Galilei, which he lived in from 1631 until his death in 1642. It is also known as Villa Galileo (not to be confused with the other homes of Galileo found in Florence, which are in Costa San Giorgio, as well as a villa in ...