Luxury Villa Rental in the Carribean
Villas
A villa was originally a Roman country house built for the upper
class. According to Pliny the Elder, there were two kinds of villas, the villa
urbana, which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome (or another
city) for a night or two, and the villa rustica, the farm-house estate, permanently
occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate, which would center
on the villa itself, perhaps only seasonally occupied. There were a concentration
of Imperial villas near the Bay of Naples, especially on the Isle of Capri, at
Monte Circeo on the coast and at Antium (Anzio). Wealthy Romans escaped the summer
heat in the hills round Rome, especially around Frascati (cf Hadrian's Villa).
Cicero is said to have possessed no fewer than seven villas, the oldest of which
was near Arpinum, which he inherited. Pliny the Younger had three or four, of which
the example near Laurentium is the best known from his descriptions.
Renaissance villas
In 14th and 15th century Italy, a 'villa' once more connoted a country house,
sometimes the family seat of power like Villa Caprarola, more often designed for
seasonal pleasure, usually located within easy distance of a city. The first
examples of Renaissance Villa dates back to the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, and
they are mostly located in the Italian region of Tuscany (the "Medici villas") such
as the Villa di Poggio a Caiano by Giuliano da Sangallo (begun in 1470) or the
Villa Medici in Fiesole (since 1450), probably the first villa created under the
instructions of Leon Battista Alberti, who theorized in his De re aedificatoria
the features of the new idea of villa. From Tuscany the idea of villa was spread
again through Italy and Europe.
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The Caribbean
The Caribbean (Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbes;
Dutch: Caraïben; Portuguese: Caribe or Caraíbas) is a region of the
Americas consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (most of which
enclose the sea), and the surrounding coasts. The region is located
southeast of Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north
and west of South America.
Situated largely on the Caribbean Plate, the area comprises more than
7,000 islands, islets, reefs, and cayes. The West Indies consist of the
Antilles, divided into the larger Greater Antilles which bound the sea
on the north and the Lesser Antilles on the south and east (including
the Leeward Antilles), and the Bahamas which are northeast of the sea.
Bermuda lies much further to the north in the Atlantic Ocean and is
sometimes included in the West Indies. Geopolitically, the West Indies
are usually reckoned as a subregion of North America and are organised
into 28 territories including sovereign states, overseas departments,
and dependencies. At one time, there was a short-lived country called
the Federation of the West Indies composed of ten English-speaking
Caribbean territories.
The name "Caribbean" is named after the Caribs, one of the dominant
Amerindian groups in the region at the time of European contact during
the late 15th century.
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Caribbean islands (ordered by alphabet):
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bermuda
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Navassa Island
- Netherlands Antilles
- Nicaragua
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Venezuela
Renting
Renting is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good or
property owned by another person or company. The owner of the property may be referred to as the
lessor and the party paying to use the property as the lessee or renter. There is typically an implied,
explicit, or written rental agreement or contract involved to specify the terms of the rental.
Examples include:
- Renting real estate for the purpose of Housing tenure (where the lessee rents a residence to
live in), parking a vehicle(s), storage, business, agricultural, institutional, or government
use, or other reasons. When renting real estate, the person(s) or party who lives in or occupies
the real estate is often called a tenant, paying rent to the owner of the property, often called a
landlord. The real estate rented may be all or part of almost any real estate, such as an apartment,
house, building, business office(s) or suite, land, farm, or merely an inside or outside space to
park a vehicle, or store things. The rental agreement for real estate is often called a lease.
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