Villa Valguarnera is an eighteenth century Baroque villa in Bagheria, in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in Sicily, commissioned for Princess Maria Anna of Gravina and built between 1712 and 1761 to an initial design by Tommaso Napoli, continued by Giovan Battista Cascione. Known as little Versailles, the villa remains in use as a private event venue, having hosted celebrity weddings including one for the musician Thom Yorke in 2020. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Villa Valguarnera is an 18th-century villa in Bagheria, in the Metropolitan City of Palermo.
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