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Example sentences for: villa

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The villa, with its classical portico to catch the summer breezes, was the Renaissance architect’s “visiting card” for scores of commissions, copied worldwide, especially on the cotton plantations of America’s Deep South, where elegant porch-living became an article of faith.
The cave, 54 m (177 ft) long, 15 m (49 ft) high, and 30 m (98 ft) wide, is believed (because of the man-made niches) to have been a nymphaeum, a kind of watery boudoir for the Emperor Tiberius, who retired to Capri in the first century a.d. and built a villa directly above.
In 1820 this imperial summer villa was all but abandoned after Emperor Jiaqing was killed here by a bolt of lightning.
In the same year, the government acquired the Museo de Artes Decorativas, at Calle 17 between Calles D and E. Each room in this grand 19th-century villa is furnished in a particular style: English Chippendale, Chinese, baroque, or Art Deco in the fabulous bathroom.
Mao Zedong taught here, and his legacy is strong at several tourist attractions, including a villa (Mao Zedong Bieshu) where he often vacationed and several displays at the provincial museum.