Villa Guardamangia is a mid-18th-century townhouse in Gwardamangia, Pieta, Malta, built of limestone in a vernacular and Neoclassical style and remodeled around 1900 by owner Sir Augusto Bartolo into the palace-like residence that survives today. Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip lived there from 1949 to 1951 while Philip served as a Royal Navy officer on the island, and the Queen later called those years among the best of her life. The villa fell into disrepair over subsequent decades until the Government of Malta acquired it in October 2019 and placed it in the care of Heritage Malta for restoration as a Grade 2 scheduled monument. 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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- Also in Geography Atlas: Malta, located there.
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1. Villa Guardamangia (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Guardamangia, lead definition
Villa Guardamangia (Italian, 'look' and 'eat'), formerly known as Casa Medina and sometimes referred to as Casa Guardamangia, is a 16,791-square-foot (1,559.9 m2) townhouse in Gwardamanġa, Pietà, Malta, which served as the residence of Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (later Queen Elizabeth II), and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, between 1949 and 1951, while Philip was stationed in Malta as a serving Royal Navy officer.
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Category:Residential buildings completed in 1900
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Villa Guardamangia is a mid-18th-century townhouse in Gwardamangia, Pieta, Malta, built of limestone in a vernacular and Neoclassical style and remodeled around 1900 by owner Sir Augusto Bartolo into the palace-like residence that survives today. Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, and Prince Philip lived there from 1949 to 1951 while Philip served as a Royal Navy officer on the island, and the Queen later called those years among the best of her life. The villa fell into disrepair over subsequent decades until the Government of Malta acquired it in October 2019 and placed it in the care of Heritage Malta for restoration as a Grade 2 scheduled monument.
- Uses Element: Limestone, infobox material field: Limestone
- In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Vernacular and Neoclassical
View the Source2. Villa Guardamangia (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Wikidata item Q20949752, instance of (P31): villa
3. Villa Guardamangia (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Pietà, Malta, MaltaQuote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Pietà, Malta, Malta
Wikidata item Q20949752, property P131/P17 (location): Pietà, Malta, Malta
Wikidata: Villa Guardamangia
Wikidata Q20949752, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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