Villa Grock is a house in Oneglia, a district of Imperia, Italy, built for the Swiss clown Charles Adrien Wettach, known professionally as Grock. Grock had built a small villa on the site in 1922 under the name Villa Bianca, then began the present three-storey house of 47 rooms in 1927, inaugurating it in 1930. Its design mixes Jugendstil and Art Deco with Persian, Baroque and Rococo influences, and its garden carries decorative references to the circus, clowning, astrology and astronomy that reflect Grock's own tastes and his hand in the house's design. Since 2013 the building has operated as the Museo del Clown, displaying Grock's belongings alongside interactive exhibits on the history of clowning and performance. 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 YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
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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.
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1. Villa Grock (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Grock, lead definition
Villa Grock, originally Villa Bianca, is a building in Imperia, Liguria.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
Villa Grock is a house in Oneglia, a district of Imperia, Italy, built for the Swiss clown Charles Adrien Wettach, known professionally as Grock. Grock had built a small villa on the site in 1922 under the name Villa Bianca, then began the present three-storey house of 47 rooms in 1927, inaugurating it in 1930. Its design mixes Jugendstil and Art Deco with Persian, Baroque and Rococo influences, and its garden carries decorative references to the circus, clowning, astrology and astronomy that reflect Grock's own tastes and his hand in the house's design. Since 2013 the building has operated as the Museo del Clown, displaying Grock's belongings alongside interactive exhibits on the history of clowning and performance.
- In Style: Art Deco, Infobox style field: Jugendstil, Art Deco
View the Source2. Villa Grock (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1930)
Wikidata item Q2525201, property P1619: 1930
Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Wikidata item Q2525201, instance of (P31): villa
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 374441): Imperia, Italy
Wikidata item Q2525201, property P131/P17 (location): Imperia, Italy
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