Villa Valguarnera is an eighteenth century Baroque villa in Bagheria, in the Metropolitan City of Palermo in Sicily, commissioned for Princess Maria Anna of Gravina and built between 1712 and 1761 to an initial design by Tommaso Napoli, continued by Giovan Battista Cascione. Known as little Versailles, the villa remains in use as a private event venue, having hosted celebrity weddings including one for the musician Thom Yorke in 2020. 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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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own account Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account Connections
Has Building Type
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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Source Villa Valguarnera (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, located there.
Sources
1. Villa Valguarnera (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Valguarnera, lead definition
Villa Valguarnera is an 18th-century villa in Bagheria, in the Metropolitan City of Palermo.
standing status determination
Known as little Versailles, the villa remains in use as a private event venue, having hosted celebrity weddings including one for the musician Thom Yorke in 2020.
Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1761)
completion_date/completed = 1761
- In Style: Baroque Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Baroque
View the Source2. Villa Valguarnera (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Wikidata item Q2525868, instance of (P31): villa
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Bagheria, Italy
Wikidata item Q2525868, property P131/P17 (location): Bagheria, Italy
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