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92 — Andrea Palladio 2 — Greatest Villas

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The Villa Mara Is a Villa on the Edge of Town

The house has two faces, a sort of town face and a kind of garden face. There's the same portico on both those sides, but integrated into the building in a really different way to create these two quite different kinds of appearances. The plan of one works great, and the interior rooms are great. A four columned, very large square hall is much better shape than a square room.

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