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Vitalis is honoured as the principal patron saint of the city of Ravenna. [4]The feast day of Saint Vitalis is 28 April. [5] Churches are dedicated in honor of Saint Vitalis at Assisi, and Rome, in Italy and at Jadera (now Zadar) in Dalmatia (now Croatia), but by far the most famous church bearing his name is the octagonal Basilica of San Vitale at Ravenna, a masterpiece of Byzantine art ...
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 ...
However, most of Palladio's surviving villas lay outside the site. In 1996 the site was expanded. Its present name reflects the fact that it includes all the Palladian Villas of the Veneto. City of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto also has some examples of ecclesiastical architecture, including the relatively small church at Maser ...
Villa Capra "La Rotonda" in Vicenza.One of Palladio's most influential designs. Villa Godi in Lugo Vicentino.An early work notable for lack of external decoration. The Palladian villas of the Veneto are villas designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, all of whose buildings were erected in the Veneto, the mainland region of north-eastern Italy then under the political control of the ...
Villas, Florida is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, Florida, United States. The population was 12,687 at the 2020 census , up from 11,569 at the 2010 census.
Vitalis of Bernay (unknown–1085), Benedictine monk from Normandy; Vitalis of Farfa (fl. 888), Italian abbot; Vitalis of Gaza (unknown–c. 625), hermit and monk; Vitalis of Milan (c. 1st century), Christian martyr and saint; Vitalis of Savigny (c. 1060–1122), founder of Savigny Abbey in France; Vitalis, Sator and Repositus (c. 4th century ...
The Villas, a housing estate in Stoke-upon-Trent, England; Other uses. Villa, a type of house; Villa, a genus of insects; The Villas (band), an American rock band;
Vitalis of Assisi (Italian: San Vitale d'Assisi) (1295 – 31 May 1370) was an Italian hermit and monk. Origin. Born in Bastia Umbra, Vitalis as a youth was ...