Villa | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Villa


00:00:39 1 Roman
00:02:35 1.1 In Roman Britannia
00:04:26 1.2 Monastery villas of Late Antiquity
00:06:27 2 Post-Roman era
00:07:37 3 Italian Renaissance
00:07:46 3.1 Tuscany
00:08:45 3.1.1 Tuscan villa gardens
00:09:15 3.2 Rome
00:11:11 3.3 Venice
00:11:58 4 Villas abroad
00:12:07 4.1 17th century
00:12:45 4.2 18th and 19th centuries
00:15:47 4.3 20th - 21st centuries
00:15:56 4.3.1 Europe
00:16:44 4.3.2 Americas
00:18:28 4.3.3 Modern villas
00:19:51 4.3.4 Other
00:22:03 5 See also
00:22:14 6 Notes



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A villa was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably.  After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity, sometimes transferred to the Church for reuse as a monastery. Then they gradually re-evolved through the Middle Ages into elegant upper-class country homes.  In modern parlance, "villa" can refer to various types and sizes of residences, ranging from the suburban semi-detached double villa to residences in the wildland–urban interface.