Villa Massei is a sixteenth century hunting lodge on a sixty acre estate at Massa Macinaia, in the commune of Capannori near Lucca, Italy, built around 1500 for the Counts Sinibaldi and later inherited by the Marchesi Massei family in the eighteenth century. In the 1950s it was home to Lionel Fielden, founder of All India Radio. Gil Cohen and Paul Gervais, a couple from Boston, bought the villa in 1981 and developed its grounds into gardens praised as a recreation of a Renaissance garden, drawing hundreds of visitors each year, and the property was sold to a Dutch family in 2014. 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: Italy, located there.
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1. Villa Massei (Wikipedia)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Massei, lead definition
Villa Massei is a 16th-century hunting lodge and 60 acres estate in Massa Macinaia, in Capannori, not far near the ancient walled city of Lucca, Italy, known for its fine gardens, which are visited by hundreds of garden lovers from all over the world annually.
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Villa Massei is a sixteenth century hunting lodge on a sixty acre estate at Massa Macinaia, in the commune of Capannori near Lucca, Italy, built around 1500 for the Counts Sinibaldi and later inherited by the Marchesi Massei family in the eighteenth century. In the 1950s it was home to Lionel Fielden, founder of All India Radio. Gil Cohen and Paul Gervais, a couple from Boston, bought the villa in 1981 and developed its grounds into gardens praised as a recreation of a Renaissance garden, drawing hundreds of visitors each year, and the property was sold to a Dutch family in 2014.
View the Source2. Villa Massei (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
Wikidata item Q17102423, instance of (P31): villa
Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Capannori, Italy
Wikidata item Q17102423, property P131/P17 (location): Capannori, Italy
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