Villa Fontanelle is a lakeside villa near Moltrasio on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, about 50 kilometers from Milan. The four story, yellow painted house was built in the first half of the nineteenth century by the English nobleman Lord Charles Currie, who could not find a villa for sale on the lake and built his own at the water's edge. It later passed to Antonio Besana, a friend of the composer Giuseppe Verdi, and by 1977 had fallen into disrepair when it was bought by the fashion designer Gianni Versace, who restored it to its neoclassical appearance and landscaped its gardens with the help of the art historian Roy Strong. After Versace's death in 1997 the estate passed through further owners and was bought in 2008 by the Russian restaurateur Arkady Novikov for 33 million euros. 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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1. Villa Fontanelle (Wikipedia)
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Villa Fontanelle is a villa (sometimes called a palazzo) near Moltrasio on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Milan.
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Villa Fontanelle is a lakeside villa near Moltrasio on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, about 50 kilometers from Milan. The four story, yellow painted house was built in the first half of the nineteenth century by the English nobleman Lord Charles Currie, who could not find a villa for sale on the lake and built his own at the water's edge. It later passed to Antonio Besana, a friend of the composer Giuseppe Verdi, and by 1977 had fallen into disrepair when it was bought by the fashion designer Gianni Versace, who restored it to its neoclassical appearance and landscaped its gardens with the help of the art historian Roy Strong. After Versace's death in 1997 the estate passed through further owners and was bought in 2008 by the Russian restaurateur Arkady Novikov for 33 million euros.
In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Neoclassical villas in Lombardy
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Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1800)
Wikidata item Q16902679, property P571: 1800
Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Wikidata item Q16902679, instance of (P31): villa
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Moltrasio, Italy
Wikidata item Q16902679, property P131/P17 (location): Moltrasio, Italy
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