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Villa di Pratolino

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Villa di Pratolino was a Mannerist villa and garden built between 1569 and 1581 for Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in Vaglia north of Florence, in part to please his mistress and later wife Bianca Cappello. The court architect Bernardo Buontalenti designed its gardens around a central axis of fountain jets running downslope, multiple grottoes with water driven automata, a water organ, and Giambologna's colossal Appennine sculpture of 1579 to 1580. The main villa itself was largely demolished in 1822, and what survives today, restored as the Paggeria and known as Villa Demidoff, is maintained by the province of Florence as a public park open from April to October. 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
Vaglia, 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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  • Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, located there.
Sources
1. Villa di Pratolino
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_di_Pratolino, lead definition
    The Villa di Pratolino was a Renaissance patrician villa in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy.
  • standing status determination
    The main villa itself was largely demolished in 1822, and what survives today, restored as the Paggeria and known as Villa Demidoff, is maintained by the province of Florence as a public park open from April to October.
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2. Villa di Pratolino (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
    Wikidata item Q1376633, instance of (P31): villa
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Vaglia, Italy
    Wikidata item Q1376633, property P131/P17 (location): Vaglia, Italy
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Wikidata: Villa di Pratolino
Wikidata Q1376633, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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