Villas and Palaces

Villa Franzan

Villa Franzan and the Minor Seminary of the Diocese of Padua are located in Barcon, a locality to the north-west of the municipality of Sarcedo. In the 20th century, Barcon (a term meaning ‘large enclosure of fields’) defined the complex of the Venetian villa and seminary, currently in a state of neglect. The Franzan family […]

January 16, 2023
Palacio del Canto del Pico

In the Spanish countryside, just a 20-minute drive from the cosmopolitan centre of Madrid lies the jewel of the Canto del Pico Estate.  The property This property of 100 hectares and a 9 km perimeter is located between the Sierra de Guadarrama and the capital and connects the two districts of Madrid: the agricultural area […]

November 20, 2022
House of Soviets (Kaliningrad)

The House of Soviets (Russian: Дом Советов, transliterated: Dom Sovetov) is a building located in the Russian city of Kaliningrad. Locals often refer to this structure as the ‘buried robot‘ because of its appearance of a steel giant buried up to its shoulders. The architect who designed the structure was Julian L’vovič Švarcbrejm. It was […]

October 9, 2022
Italian settlements in Rhodes

Italian Settlers in Rhodes Italian settlers landed in the Aegean Sea and the Dodecanese islands in the 1930s during the fascist government of Benito Mussolini.During this period, many important architects, archaeologists, historians and town planners in Rome collaborated to recreate monuments and historical sites of the former Roman Empire following the Duce’s guidelines. The first […]

June 19, 2022
Villa Paradiso

Villa Grompo-Pigafetta, Bettanin known as ‘Paradiso’ (Paradise): a building dating back to the late 17th century located in the Grompa area, near the left bank of the Masina Canal, which appears to be the extension of previous 16th-century construction. It consists of a central body with living functions and two lateral barchesse (barns) that were […]

June 16, 2022
Moneta Palace

In the Veronese countryside rests an open-air art gallery, a splendid historic building from the 16th century.

October 28, 2021
Musicians’ Villa

Within those walls echoed faint voices and scores buried by dust and time.

June 11, 2021
Villa Ventura

A fusion of Art Nouveau, Neo-Gothic, Eclectic and Neo-Renaissance styles, a villa more reminiscent of a Masonic place of worship than a residential building.

May 25, 2021
Villa of Reminiscence

The past forcefully surviving in the present.

December 13, 2020
Owl Restaurant

In the sleepless and stormy night two round, yellow eyes wait silently for the arrival of the savior.

October 29, 2020