Luxury Villas in France
Your Dream Villa
For sure it is a beautifully designed home with
many impressive and unique attributes. It should embody the
inside/outside living style of the Caribbean with its own tropical
lush gardens filled with palm trees, hibiscus and wild orchids -- in
addition, a private water front dock, with steps to the sea, surrounded
by powder white beach sand. The villa has three to five master bedrooms
and one or two junior bedrooms, all with facilites en suite. There are
two spectacular swimming pools--one on grade made of stone, one elevated
and secluded. All master bedrooms have spectacular views of the Caribbean
Sea--as do the living areas, outside verandas and master kitchen. In
addition, the property has its own tennis court and stand alone car
garage, wherby the entire estate is built on minimum one acre of land,
all enclosed by beautiful stone walls.
This is a dream - isn't it? 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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France
France [...]), officially the French Republic [...],
is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe
and which also comprises various overseas islands and territories
located in other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the
Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from
the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. French people often refer to
Metropolitan France as L'Hexagone (The "Hexagon") because of the
geometric shape of its territory.
France is bordered by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy,
Monaco, Andorra, and Spain. In some of its overseas departments, France
also shares land borders with Brazil, Suriname, and the Netherlands
Antilles. France is also linked to the United Kingdom via the Channel
Tunnel, which passes underneath the English Channel (La Manche in French).
...
Geography
While the main territory of France (metropolitan France; French: la
Métropole, France métropolitaine or informally l'hexagone) is located
in Western Europe, France is also comprised of a number of territories
in North America, the Caribbean, South America, the southern Indian Ocean,
the Pacific Ocean, and Antarctica (sovereignty claims in Antarctica are
governed by the Antarctic Treaty System). These territories have varying
forms of government ranging from overseas département to "overseas country".
Metropolitan France possesses a wide variety of landscapes, from coastal
plains in the north and west to mountain ranges in the south-east (the
Alps) and the south-west (the Pyrenees). The highest point in western
Europe is situated in the French Alps: Mont Blanc at 4,810 metres
(15,781 ft) above sea-level. There are several other elevated regions
such as the Massif Central, the Jura, the Vosges, and the Ardennes which
are quite rocky and forested. France also has extensive river systems
such as the Loire, the Rhône, the Garonne and the Seine.
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