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The first historical examples of luxury houses or luxury villas, are from the period of the Roman Empire. In particular, the villas of Roman Emperors, represented the quintessential luxury. Today some are protected as Heritage archaeological of inestimable value and as UNESCO World Heritage Site, as, for example, Hadrian's Villa.
In 1994 he acquired Società dell’Acqua Pia Antica Marcia, founded in 1868 with the aim of bringing back to Rome Acqua Antica Marcia, one of the longest of the 11 aqueducts that supplied the city of ancient Rome. [3] Italy's oldest real-estate company was reorganized around various branches, each one handling one specific aspect of the ...
A third type of villa was a large commercial estate called latifundium which produced and exported agricultural produce; such villas might lack luxuries (e.g. Cato) but many were very sumptuous (e.g. Varro). The whole estate of a villa was also called a praedium, [17] fundus or sometimes, rus. A villa rustica had 2 or 3 parts: [18] [19]
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The Roman villas Villa Ludovisi and Villa Montalto, were destroyed during the late nineteenth century in the wake of the real estate bubble that took place in Rome after the seat of government of a united Italy was established at Rome. The cool hills of Frascati gained the Villa Aldobrandini (1592); the Villa Falconieri and the Villa Mondragone.
Società Generale Immobiliare (SGI; English: The General Company of Real Estate) was once the largest real estate and construction company in Italy. It was founded in Turin in 1862, then relocated to Rome in 1870 with the unification of Italy. The company bought some of the pastoral land around Rome and, with the growth of Rome, the company ...
The rest of Trump's real estate portfolio is residential Trump Towers around the world, 4 commercial properties in New York and California, 17 golf clubs and 2 properties within the 'Estate ...
Remains of the top floors of an insula near the Capitolium and the Insula dell'Ara Coeli in Rome. In Roman architecture, an insula (Latin for "island", pl.: insulae) was one of two things: either a kind of apartment building, or a city block. [1] [2] [3] This article deals with the former definition, that of a type of apartment building.