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Villa La Petraia

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Villa La Petraia is a Medici villa in the Castello district of Florence that began as a fortified palace of the Brunelleschi family in 1364 and was expanded after Palla Strozzi bought it in 1422. Cosimo I de' Medici acquired the property in 1544 and gave it to his son Cardinal Ferdinando in 1568, after which extensive terracing work from 1588 onward reshaped the hillside site; the garden design is traditionally credited to Bernardo Buontalenti. Later owners in the House of Savoy added a glass roof over the central courtyard and an aviary, and a nineteenth century belvedere on the upper terrace looks out over Florence. Transferred to the Italian state in 1919, it is now a museum, part of the UNESCO World Heritage listing of the Medici villas and gardens, and displays Giusto Utens's surviving lunette paintings of the Medici villas. 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
Florence, 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 La Petraia
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_La_Petraia, lead definition
    Villa La Petraia is one of the Medici villas in Castello, Florence, Tuscany, central Italy.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Villa La Petraia is a Medici villa in the Castello district of Florence that began as a fortified palace of the Brunelleschi family in 1364 and was expanded after Palla Strozzi bought it in 1422. Cosimo I de' Medici acquired the property in 1544 and gave it to his son Cardinal Ferdinando in 1568, after which extensive terracing work from 1588 onward reshaped the hillside site; the garden design is traditionally credited to Bernardo Buontalenti. Later owners in the House of Savoy added a glass roof over the central courtyard and an aviary, and a nineteenth century belvedere on the upper terrace looks out over Florence. Transferred to the Italian state in 1919, it is now a museum, part of the UNESCO World Heritage listing of the Medici villas and gardens, and displays Giusto Utens's surviving lunette paintings of the Medici villas.
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2. Villa La Petraia (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
    Wikidata item Q958758, instance of (P31): villa
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Florence, Italy
    Wikidata item Q958758, property P131/P17 (location): Florence, Italy
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Wikidata: Villa La Petraia
Wikidata Q958758, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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