Sentence examples for ancient villas from inspiring English sources

Roman inns apparently were laid out in the same manner as ancient villas.

Twice during renovation, when workmen were digging for the pool, they uncovered ancient villas, possibly built by the roman emperor Tiberius.

But instead of using marble statues and ancient villas, the set designer, Thomas Lynch, has a tile floor, tall columns and a worn rug.

The collection is housed in a 19th-century villa in a quiet residential neighborhood, where state-of-the art offices border on ancient villas with large private parks.

Those frescoes, from luxurious ancient villas on the Bay of Naples, have been cleaned and moved from the museum lobby, where tourists used to mistake them for the coat-check concession.

MARINA HARSS Correction: May 5 , 2002 Sunday A map on April 21 with a report in the Travel Advisory column about the reopening of ancient villas on the Celian Hill in Rome misstated the name of a church cited as a reference point, and misstated its location.

This was a summer villa, based on ancient villa types as described by Pliny the Younger, with a small house and an elaborate garden.

His ancient villa, beautifully reconstructed with every luxury, is located about 20 minutes outside of Siena.

Posillipo's giant Parco Virgiliano – which sits above the ancient Roman Villa Pausilypon – is where the city's youth hang out.

The upstairs has a large central salon with the traditional three-arched window that is surrounded by smaller rooms as if it were an enclosed courtyard of an ancient Roman villa.

The monastery was built in the late 1500s, but its origins date back to the first century BC when it started life as an ancient Roman villa; according to local lore, the poet Horace was a frequent guest.