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Villa Maxentii

Villa Maxentii (Villa di Massenzio) is Maxentius's early 4th-century imperial complex on the Via Appia, Rome, comprising a palace, the best-preserved Roman circus, and the Tomb of Romulus.

Villa near Wadi Ghirza (Libya)

The villa near Wadi Ghirza is a fortified farmhouse complex at Ghirza, a Romano-Libyan frontier settlement in western Libya, founded after about 200 CE when former soldiers settled as farmers.

Villa Neronis

Villa Neronis, the Villa of Nero: the imperial seaside villa at Anzio where Nero was born, his villa Sublacense at Subiaco (58-64 AD), and the unrelated via Neroniana villa at Montegrotto Terme.

Villa of Agrippa Postumus

Villa of Agrippa Postumus (Villa di Agrippa Postumo): Roman villas named for Augustus's grandson, chiefly the 1st-century BC maritime villa at Sorrento with nymphaea and fishponds, plus villas at Boscotrecase and Pianosa, his island of exile.

Villa of Caius Olius Ampliatus

Villa of Caius Olius Ampliatus (Villa Romana di Ponticelli), a Roman villa rustica in Ponticelli, Naples, buried by the 79 AD Vesuvius eruption; identified by a seal ring, excavated 1986-1987 and 2007, with wine and oil production rooms.

Villa of Furius Octavianus

Villa of Furius Octavianus, a Roman villa on the via Aurelia at Massimina near Rome, excavated 2011-2017. Lead pipe stamps name senator Furius Octavianus (clarissimus vir) and plumbarius C. Iulius Hermes; Severan baths of about 3,000 square meters.

Villa of Horace

The Villa of Horace is a Roman country house site in the Licenza valley near Rome, traditionally identified with the Sabine farm given to the poet Horace.

Villa of L. Crassius Tertius

Villa of L. Crassius Tertius (Oplontis Villa B), a late 2nd-century BC Roman wine emporium at Torre Annunziata, Italy, buried in 79 CE; about 1,200 amphorae, 54 eruption victims, and a bronze seal naming Tertius.

Villa of Manlius Vopiscus

Villa of Manlius (Manilius) Vopiscus, a 1st-century AD Roman villa at Tibur (Tivoli) spanning both banks of the Anio, known from Statius' Silvae 1.3, the first extant Latin villa poem; ruins lie in Villa Gregoriana.

Villa of Masseria Ciccotti

The Villa of Masseria Ciccotti is a Roman villa near Oppido Lucano in Basilicata, southern Italy, occupied from the late 1st century BC to late antiquity.

villa of Q. Volconius Pollio

Villa of Q. Volconius/Voconius Pollio (Villa di Quinto Voconio Pollione), a large Augustan-era Roman suburban villa at Ciampino near Rome, identified by a lead pipe stamp, excavated from 1884, famed for its Apollo Pythius statue.

Villa of the Frescoes

Villa of the Frescoes, a 2nd-century CE wealthy Roman townhouse in ancient Tipasa (Tisapa), Algeria, named for surviving wall-painting traces; Hellenistic-plan house with triclinium mosaic, portico from the Cardo Maximus, and peristyle garden.

Villa of the Octavii

Villa of the Octavii (Villa degli Ottavi), Roman villa remains on the hill of San Cesareo near Velletri, speculatively attributed to the gens Octavia of Augustus; excavated from 1909, with a three-naved Republican cistern, nymphaeum, and mosaic.

Villa of the Papyri

Villa of the Papyri (Villa dei Papiri), a luxury Roman villa outside Herculaneum buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, holds the only surviving ancient library, over 1,000 carbonized Epicurean scrolls, and inspired the Getty Villa.

Villa Pamphili

Villa Pamphili, or Villa Doria Pamphilj, is a 17th-century Roman villa on the Janiculum whose 184-hectare grounds form Rome's largest park, begun by Panfilo Pamphili in 1630 and linked to Pope Innocent X.

Villa Regina, Boscoreale

Villa Regina, Boscoreale: a Roman villa rustica and wine farm 1 km north of Pompeii, buried by the AD 79 eruption, discovered 1977, with 18 dolia, a torcularium, and the only visitable Boscoreale villa.

Villa Romana ai Cavallacci

Villa Romana ai Cavallacci, a Roman villa in Albano Laziale near Rome, discovered 1975 on Via Verdi; built late republican, splendid under Tiberius and the Severans, inhabited to the 5th century AD, with a marble head of Tiberius Gemellus in the Museo Civico Albano.

Villa Romana Baláca

Villa Romana Baláca (Balácapuszta) is Hungary's largest Roman villa estate, near Nemesvámos and Lake Balaton in Pannonia: a 56-hectare farm with a 2,400 m² residence, Severan mosaics, and the Likas Hill mausoleum of the Tiberii Claudii.

Villa romana del Torchio

Villa romana del Torchio, a Roman villa rustica at Quarto (Naples, via Masullo, località Spinelli), found in 2006; a 2nd-century BC wine-producing farm with torcularium, cella vinaria, and dolia supplying Puteoli, occupied to the 4th-5th century AD.

Villa Romana di Collesecco

Villa Romana di Collesecco (Villa Romana di Cottanello), a Roman villa at Cottanello, Rieti, in the Sabina near Forum Novum; owned by the Aurelii Cottae, built from the 2nd century BC, noted for mosaics and Cottanello marble.

Villa romana di via Carciano

Villa romana di via Carciano: Roman villa and baths on terraces above the Aniene along the via Tiburtina, Rome Municipio IV. Occupied 2nd century BC to 4th century AD, with Dionysiac mosaics, 1992-3 SAR excavation, and a €500,000 PNRR restoration.

Villa rustica of Szentendre-Skanzen

Villa rustica of Szentendre-Skanzen: a 67 × 78 m, 52-room Roman country estate near Ulcisia Castra, excavated 1973–75 by Judit Topál, largest rural villa of Pannonia, conserved by international architects' camps.

Villa Rustica, Loerrach-Brombach

Villa Rustica, Loerrach-Brombach is the preserved foundation walls of a small Roman farmstead in Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, built in the 2nd century and destroyed by fire in the 3rd.

Villa S. Silvestro

Villa San Silvestro, Cascia (Umbria): Roman Republican temple complex with 28.9 x 20.7 m podium under the church of S. Silvestro, a 63 x 94.5 m quadriporticus, and rebuilding after the 99 BC earthquake.

Village of Happiness KOBE

Village of Happiness KOBE (しあわせの村, Shiawase no Mura) is a 205-hectare municipal welfare and leisure zone in Kita-ku, Kobe, opened 23 April 1989, with hot springs, pool, campgrounds, lodging, and welfare facilities, drawing about 1.9 million visits yearly.

Village of Sidi Bou Saïd

Village of Sidi Bou Saïd (سيدي بوسعيد), Tunisian cliff-top village near Carthage, named for Sufi saint Abou Saïd al-Beji (d. 1231); blue-and-white palette set by 1915 decree; UNESCO World Heritage site since 25 July 2026, criterion (iii).

Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania

Villages with Fortified Churches in Transylvania: UNESCO serial site (Biertan 1993, extended 1999) of seven Saxon villages, Prejmer, Biertan, Valea Viilor, Câlnic, Saschiz, Dârjiu, Viscri, with 13th–16th-century fortified churches.

Villains Land

Villains Land is a Disney Villains-themed land under construction at Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, announced at D23 in August 2024, with a Maleficent coaster, a Magic Mirror dark ride, Conjured Architecture theming, and no announced opening date.

Villamagna

Villamagna (Villa Magna): name of two Italian Roman villa sites, an imperial estate with a 2nd-century winery near Anagni, Lazio, and a rural villa near Urbisaglia, Marche, both with medieval afterlives.

Villarodin-Bourget

Villarodin-Bourget, a Savoie commune in Haute Maurienne, France, with four villages including La Norma, the Maginot fort Saint-Gobain museum, and the 4,036 m Villarodin-Bourget/Modane drift of the Mont Cenis base tunnel.