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Villa Mondragone

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Villa Mondragone is a patrician villa on a hill above Frascati in the Alban Hills near Rome, in what is now the comune of Monte Porzio Catone. Construction began in 1573 for Cardinal Mark Sittich von Hohenems Altemps, working with the architect Martino Longhi the Elder, on a site that had earlier held a Roman villa of the Quinctilii family. Pope Gregory XIII used the villa as a summer retreat and issued there, in 1582, the papal bull that introduced the Gregorian calendar reform; the villa is said to take its name from the dragon in his coat of arms. The Borghese family later expanded the property and filled it with art and antiquities, and from 1865 to 1953 the Jesuits ran it as the Nobile Collegio Mondragone boarding school. Since 1981 it has served as a campus of the University of Rome Tor Vergata. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Monte Porzio Catone, Italy 2
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
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Villa, Concepts

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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Renaissance Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Villa Mondragone (Wikipedia)
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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, located there.
Sources
1. Villa Mondragone (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Mondragone, lead definition
    Villa Mondragone is a patrician villa originally in the territory of the Italian comune of Frascati (Latium, central Italy), now in the territory of Monte Porzio Catone (Alban Hills).
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Villa Mondragone is a patrician villa on a hill above Frascati in the Alban Hills near Rome, in what is now the comune of Monte Porzio Catone. Construction began in 1573 for Cardinal Mark Sittich von Hohenems Altemps, working with the architect Martino Longhi the Elder, on a site that had earlier held a Roman villa of the Quinctilii family. Pope Gregory XIII used the villa as a summer retreat and issued there, in 1582, the papal bull that introduced the Gregorian calendar reform; the villa is said to take its name from the dragon in his coat of arms. The Borghese family later expanded the property and filled it with art and antiquities, and from 1865 to 1953 the Jesuits ran it as the Nobile Collegio Mondragone boarding school. Since 1981 it has served as a campus of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
  • In Style: Renaissance Architecture, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Renaissance villas in Italy
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2. Villa Mondragone (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
    Wikidata item Q1241849, instance of (P31): villa
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
    Wikidata item Q1241849, property P131/P17 (location): Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
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Wikidata: Villa Mondragone
Wikidata Q1241849, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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