Villa Trabia – ENG

Villa Trabia – ENG

Villa Trabia Villa Trabia was built by Michele Gravina prince of Comitini in the mid-1700s, based on a project by the state architect Abbot Nicolò Palma. The Villa was then purchased by Prince Pietro Lanza di Trabia who, in 1890, ordered its restoration which...
Villa Sant’Isidoro De Cordova – ENG

Villa Sant’Isidoro De Cordova – ENG

Villa Sant’Isidoro De Cordova Datable to 1648, the villa is accessed from a monumental staircase to the internal enfilade rooms. From the entrance space, three rooms develop, located in the east wing, which include a study and two bedrooms, with stucco decorations,...
Villa San Cataldo and gardens

Villa San Cataldo and gardens

Villa San Cataldo and gardens Built in the early eighteenth century by the family of the Galletti princes of San Cataldo, it was then radically transformed at the end of the nineteenth century, both internally and externally, and decorated in the neo-Gothic style as...
Villa Valguarnera – ENG

Villa Valguarnera – ENG

Villa Valguarnera The building, completed in 1783, seems to have been built to designs by the architect Sucameli, at the behest of Princess Maria Anna of Gravina, Princess of Cattolica in 1712. Still incomplete at the death of its founder, the current body of the...
Villa Palagonia – ENG

Villa Palagonia – ENG

Villa Palagonia It is the most important emblem of suburban Baroque architecture in Sicily. Conceived as a place of recreation and holiday, it was built in 1715 by the prince of Palagonia, Francesco Ferdinando Gravina and Bonanni. The villa can be reached via a long...