Villa Sciarra is a villa and surrounding park in Rome, between the Trastevere, Gianicolo and Monteverde Vecchio districts. The estate began as farmland Cardinal Antonio Barberini purchased in 1653, passed to the Colonna di Sciarra family in 1811, who gave it its present name, and was later remade into a botanic garden and aviary by its final private owners, the American couple George Washington Wurts and Henrietta Tower, who decorated the grounds with sculpture taken from an eighteenth century Lombard villa near Milan. The architect Pio Piacentini designed the villa main entrance plaza, Piazzale Wurts. Henrietta Tower donated the property to Benito Mussolini in 1932 on condition that it become a public park, and it remains one today. 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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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, located there.
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1. Villa Sciarra (Rome) (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Sciarra_(Rome), lead definition
Villa Sciarra is a park in Rome named for the villa at its centre.
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Villa Sciarra is a villa and surrounding park in Rome, between the Trastevere, Gianicolo and Monteverde Vecchio districts. The estate began as farmland Cardinal Antonio Barberini purchased in 1653, passed to the Colonna di Sciarra family in 1811, who gave it its present name, and was later remade into a botanic garden and aviary by its final private owners, the American couple George Washington Wurts and Henrietta Tower, who decorated the grounds with sculpture taken from an eighteenth century Lombard villa near Milan. The architect Pio Piacentini designed the villa main entrance plaza, Piazzale Wurts. Henrietta Tower donated the property to Benito Mussolini in 1932 on condition that it become a public park, and it remains one today.
View the Source2. Villa Sciarra (Rome) (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Wikidata item Q14479150, instance of (P31): villa
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Rome, Italy
Wikidata item Q14479150, property P131/P17 (location): Rome, Italy
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