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Villa Hériot

The two villas of the Villa Hériot complex: little columns, roundels and little arches pretending to be Byzantium, seen from the garden
The two villas of the Villa Hériot complex: little columns, roundels and little arches pretending to be Byzantium, seen from the garden Photo: Paolo Steffan (Vaghestelledellorsa), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

At the end of Calle Michelangelo, where the calle dies against a tall boundary wall, raise your eyes above the trees: a villa appears that seems to have come out of Byzantium. Little columns of Istrian marble, capitals, inlaid roundels and panels, a portico of oriental little arches. And yet it is not even a hundred years old: it is Villa Hériot, finished in 1929.

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