Villa il Pavone
The Villa il Pavone is a neo-Renaissance style suburban palace located outside of the city of Siena, a region of Tuscany, Italy. History. In 1825, Mario Bianchi Bandinelli commissioned the Sienese architect Agostino Fantastici to refurbish the existing "Palazzo del Pavone", attributed to Francesco di Giorgio, into a villa with gardens. The entry gate has two pillars topped by sphinxes, sculpted by Luigi Magi. The small square villa building is accessed by a portico with Tuscan-style columns. Along the sides of the villa are brick orangeries. The freer-style "Romantic" garden is bordered by woods  to the west and is crossed by winding paths. It also has designed set-pieces: a Doric loggia overlooking the Via Cassia, a monument recalling Roman pyramid sepulchres (e.g. Pyramid of Cestius) and a hypogeum-grotto, overlooking a small pond. In 2015, the villa served as a retirement home.