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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 ...
The Roman Villa: A Historical Introduction. du Prey, Pierre de la Ruffiniere (1995). The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity. Rivert, A. L. F. (1969), The Roman villa in Britain, Studies in ancient history and archaeology; Shuter, Jane (2004). Life in a Roman Villa. Picture the Past. Smith, J.T. (1998). Roman Villas.
Following the fall of Rome, the practice of building unfortified villas ceased. Today, the oldest inhabited mansions around the world usually began their existence as fortified houses in the Middle Ages. As social conditions slowly changed and stabilized fortifications were able to be reduced, and over the centuries gave way to comfort. It ...
Interest in the island's history began to surface again in 2022 when it was announced the Carleton Island Villa, one of the most well-known landmarks on the St. Lawrence River, although in ...
The term is the Anglicized form of the word villa, used in Latin documents to translate the Anglo-Saxon tun. [5] The vill remained the basic rural unit after the Norman conquest—land units in the Domesday Book are frequently referred to as vills [6] —and into the late medieval era.
Villa Meeresgruss ("Sea Greeting") in Binz, Rugia Island - a typical mansion in German resort architecture styleResort architecture [1] (German: Bäderarchitektur) is an architectural style that is especially characteristic of spas and seaside resorts on the German Baltic coast.
Latifundia included a villa rustica, including an often luxurious owner's residence, and the operation of the farm relied on a large number of Roman slaves, [5] sometimes kept in an ergastulum. They produced agricultural products for sale and profit such as livestock (sheep and cattle) or olive oil, grain, garum and wine. Nevertheless, Rome had ...
The Villa is modeled after a Roman country house buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Contributing: Thao Nguyen This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: What is the Getty Villa?