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Brue-Auriac (French pronunciation: [bʁy oʁjak]; Occitan: Brua e Auriac) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.It is an unusual village, having been created in the 18th century by the union of two decayed villages by the seigneur Georges Roux de Corse.
The Building Research Establishment is owned by the BRE Trust, a registered charity that works to support research and education in the built environment.All of the profits accrued by BRE are passed to the Trust and are used to fund new research and education programmes designed to meet the Trust's goal of promoting safety and sustainability.
Villa Nellcôte (often referred to as Nellcôte) is a 16-room mansion built during the Belle Époque on a headland above the sea at Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Côte d'Azur in Southern France. Among rock music fans, it is known as the recording location of the 1972 album Exile on Main St. by the English band The Rolling Stones .
View over Morcote and Lake Lugano. Vico Morcote has an area, as of 1997, of 1.91 square kilometers (0.74 sq mi).Of this area, 0.31 km 2 (0.12 sq mi) or 16.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.39 km 2 (0.54 sq mi) or 72.8% is forested.
The villa La Mauresque is located in cap Ferrat (Alpes-Maritimes) and was remodeled in 1927 by Henri Delmotte, Marcel Guilgot, and the American architect Barry Dierks (1899–1960) to serve as the main residence of the British novelist Somerset Maugham. Surrounded by gardens and terraces, this villa has received numerous writers and celebrities.
The younger villa contained an upper and lower terrace with rooms on each floor. Inside one room of the younger villa, two marble statues, including one of Dionysus , were discovered. [ 12 ] In the older villa, sixteen amphorae were discovered, along with a warehouse and a furnace, which is believed to have heated a private bathroom.
St. Laurent is located close to "Nice Côte d'Azur" Airport, in the eastern side of Var river, Nice. The town also has a harbor, an interchange on the motorway A8, and a railway station (Saint-Laurent-du-Var station) on the Marseille-Toulon-Nice-Ventimiglia line.
The village of Vigonza (Peraga) in northern Italy, where the family of astronomer G. Abetti, who computed the asteroid's orbit, owned country villa. DMP · 554: 555 Norma: 1905 PT: The main character in the opera Norma by Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835) DMP · 555: 556 Phyllis: 1905 PW: Phyllis, from Greek mythology.