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Villa Niscemi

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Villa Niscemi is a Renaissance and Baroque villa in the northwestern part of Palermo, Sicily, near La Favorita park, begun in the sixteenth century and completed in the eighteenth. It was the main residence of the noble Valguarnera family for about three centuries, who remodeled it late in the 1700s to give it a more Baroque character and filled it with paintings, frescoes, and other artwork. The Comune of Palermo bought the three story villa from the Valguarnera family in 1987, and it now serves as a representative headquarters for the mayor of Palermo. 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
Palermo, 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.

In Style

Renaissance Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Villa Niscemi (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, located there.
Sources
1. Villa Niscemi (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Niscemi, lead definition
    Villa Niscemi is a villa in Palermo.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Villa Niscemi is a Renaissance and Baroque villa in the northwestern part of Palermo, Sicily, near La Favorita park, begun in the sixteenth century and completed in the eighteenth. It was the main residence of the noble Valguarnera family for about three centuries, who remodeled it late in the 1700s to give it a more Baroque character and filled it with paintings, frescoes, and other artwork. The Comune of Palermo bought the three story villa from the Valguarnera family in 1987, and it now serves as a representative headquarters for the mayor of Palermo.
  • In Style: Renaissance Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Renaissance and Baroque
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2. Villa Niscemi (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
    Wikidata item Q16621503, instance of (P31): villa
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Palermo, Italy
    Wikidata item Q16621503, property P131/P17 (location): Palermo, Italy
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Wikidata: Villa Niscemi
Wikidata Q16621503, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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