Villa Palagonia is a Baroque villa in Bagheria, about fifteen kilometers from Palermo in Sicily, built from 1715 to a design by the architect Tommaso Napoli with the assistance of Agatino Daidone. It is counted among the earliest examples of Sicilian Baroque architecture. Starting in 1749, Francesco Ferdinando II Gravina, Prince of Palagonia, added a garden lined with grotesque statues of monstrous, human faced figures, which gave the villa its nickname Villa dei Mostri, the Villa of Monsters. Descendants of the family who bought it in 1885 still own the villa, which is partly open to the public and has hosted a free concert series since 2017. 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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The Villa Palagonia is a patrician villa in Bagheria, 15 km from Palermo, in Sicily, southern Italy.
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Descendants of the family who bought it in 1885 still own the villa, which is partly open to the public and has hosted a free concert series since 2017.
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The Villa Palagonia is a patrician villa in Bagheria, 15 km from Palermo, in Sicily, southern Italy. The villa itself, built from 1715 by the architect Tommaso Napoli with the help of Agatino Daidone, is one of the earliest examples of Sicilian Baroque. However, its popularity comes mainly from the statues of monsters with human faces that decorate its garden and its wall, and earned it the ni
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Category:Baroque architecture in Palermo
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Wikidata item Q1241262, instance of (P31): villa
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Bagheria, Italy
Wikidata item Q1241262, property P131/P17 (location): Bagheria, Italy
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