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Villa d'Este
Villa d'Este (Villa d'Este a Tivoli) is a 16th-century villa and terraced water garden in Tivoli near Rome, built for Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este and designed by Pirro Ligorio.
Villa del Balbianello
Villa del Balbianello is an 18th-century villa and garden on the Dosso di Lavedo peninsula at Lenno on Lake Como, Italy, built for Cardinal Angelo Maria Durini.
Villa di Poggio a Caiano
The Villa di Poggio a Caiano, also called the Villa Medicea, is a Medici Renaissance villa in Tuscany, designed by Giuliano da Sangallo for Lorenzo the Magnificent.
Villa Farnese
Villa Farnese (Palazzo Farnese), Caprarola: pentagonal Vignola masterpiece built 1559–1575 for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese on Sangallo's fortress foundations, with Zuccari frescoes, Mannerist gardens, Italian State museum since 1941.
Villa Farnesina
Villa Farnesina is a Renaissance villa in Trastevere, Rome, built from 1506 for the banker Agostino Chigi and famous for Raphael's fresco The Triumph of Galatea.
Villa Giulia
Villa Giulia is a Renaissance villa in Rome built for Pope Julius III between 1551 and 1555, near the Porta del Popolo, and since 1889 home to the National Etruscan Museum.
Villa I Tatti
Villa I Tatti, formally the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, is a research center in a former villa in the Settignano foothills east of Florence, Italy, open to scholars since 1961.
Villa Kerylos
Villa Kérylos is a villa at Beaulieu-sur-Mer on the French Riviera, built between 1902 and 1908 as a modern re-creation of an ancient Greek noble house.
Villa La Petraia
Villa La Petraia is a Medici villa in the Castello district of Florence, Italy, transformed in the late sixteenth century with a three-terrace Italian garden.
Villa La Rotonda
Villa La Rotonda, formally Villa Almerico Capra, is a Renaissance villa on a hill outside Vicenza, Italy, designed by Andrea Palladio from 1565 for Paolo Almerico and completed in 1605.
Villa Lange
Villa Lange, also known as Haus Lange, is a 1930 brick modernist villa in Krefeld, Germany, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and now an art museum.
Villa Lante
Villa Lante is a 16th-century Mannerist villa and garden at Bagnaia near Viterbo, Italy, with two identical twin palazzine arranged around a single descending water axis.
Villa Madama
Villa Madama is an unfinished Renaissance villa on the slopes of Monte Mario in Rome, designed by Raphael for Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, the future Pope Clement VII.
Villa Mairea
Villa Mairea is a 1939 house in Noormarkku, Finland, designed by Aino and Alvar Aalto for Harry and Maire Gullichsen, now a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Villa Medici
Villa Medici (Académie de France à Rome) is a 16th-century Renaissance villa on the Pincio Hill in Rome, home to the French Academy since 1803.
Villa Monastero
Villa Monastero is a house museum, botanical garden, and conference center in Varenna on Lake Como, Italy, begun as a Cistercian monastery in the 12th century.
Villa Müller
Villa Müller (Czech: Müllerova vila, German: Haus Müller) is a Modernist villa in Prague, built 1928 to 1930 from a design by Adolf Loos and Karel Lhota for František Müller.
Villa Muti
Villa Muti (Villa Arrigoni-Muti) is a late-16th-century villa in Grottaferrata near Rome, built over the terraces of an ancient Roman villa, with frescoes by Cigoli, Passignano, and Lanfranco and remains excavated by Lanciani.
Villa Noailles
Villa Noailles is a modernist villa in Hyères, southern France, built between 1924 and 1932 for patrons Charles and Marie-Laure de Noailles and designed by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens.
Villa of Diomedes
The Villa of Diomedes is a Roman suburban villa outside the walls of Pompeii, Italy, among the first buildings excavated there, between 1771 and 1775.
Villa of the Mysteries
The Villa of the Mysteries (Villa dei Misteri) is an ancient Roman villa outside Pompeii's walls, known for its fresco cycle of the Dionysian mysteries.
Villa Olmo
Villa Olmo is a neoclassical villa on Lake Como in Como, Italy, built for the Odescalchi family in the 1780s and owned by the city since 1925.
Villa Pisani (Stra)
Villa Pisani at Stra is an 18th-century villa on the Brenta river between Padua and Venice, built for the Pisani family and now an Italian state museum.
Villa Poppaea
Villa Poppaea (Villa di Poppea) is a large Roman villa at Oplontis, near Naples, buried by Vesuvius in AD 79 and famed for its frescoes.
Villa Romana de la Olmeda
Villa Romana de la Olmeda is a 4th-century Roman villa in Pedrosa de la Vega, Palencia, Spain, preserving 1,450 m2 of polychrome floor mosaics in situ.
Villa Romana de Milreu
Villa Romana de Milreu, also known as Ruínas Romanas de Milreu, is a Roman villa and archaeological site near Estói in the Algarve, Portugal, occupied from the 1st to the 11th century.
Villa Romana del Casale
Villa Romana del Casale (Sicilian: Villa Rumana dû Casali) is a luxurious late Roman villa near Piazza Armerina in Sicily, built in the early fourth century.
Villa Rotonda
Villa Rotonda, formally Villa Almerico Capra Valmarana, is a Renaissance villa on a hill outside Vicenza in the Veneto, designed by Andrea Palladio for Paolo Almerico and begun around 1566.
Villa Rufinella
Villa Rufinella, now Villa Tuscolana, is a 1578 villa above Frascati, Italy, built by Cardinal Alessandro Rufini on the ruins of Cicero's Tusculanum; rebuilt by Luigi Vanvitelli for the Jesuits in 1742, it is the highest of the ten Tuscolan villas and now a hotel.
Villa San Marco
Villa San Marco is one of the largest Roman villas at ancient Stabiae, near Pompeii, covering over 11,000 square meters and buried by Vesuvius in AD 79.