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 | This house was build in 1890. Rachele Mussolini bought it in 1934.
For years the house was used as summer-residence of the Mussolini family. Benito Mussolini invited many well-known-people here.
Nowadays the house is used by the city of Riccione for exhibitions and other events. |  | 08/29/2009 | 37 | 
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 | The House and grounds were used during WW2 to train spies and approx 5,000 of the general public (Auxiliary Units) in sabotage and guerrilla warfare techniques.
The house mysteriously burned down in the early 1950th and the remains were demolished 1953. Wher the house stood a garden was build.
http://www.coleshillhouse.com/ | | 09/25/2009 | 43 |
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 | USS SIMON LAKE was the lead ship of the SIMON LAKE - class of submarine tenders and the first ship in the Navy named after Simon Lake who was a mechanical engineer and naval architect. He was the inventor of even-keel type submarines and built ARGONUT, in 1897, which was the first submarine to operate successfully in the open sea. He also invented submarine apparatus for locating and recovering... | | 05/30/2007 | 532 |
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 | The Villa Diodati is a manor in Cologny close to Lake Geneva. It is most famous for having been the summer residence of Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, John Polidori and others in 1816, where the basis for the classical horror stories Frankenstein and The Vampyre were laid.
Originally called the Villa Belle Rive, Byron named it the Villa Diodati after the family that own... | | 10/28/2009 | 21 |
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 | Villa Rustica, Archeological Excavation of a Roman Villa in the Eifel // Ausgrabung einer römischen Villa in der Nähe von Holsthum in der Eifel. Eine typische ländliche Villa (Villa rustica) wie diese, hatte zahlreiche Wirtschaftsgebäude und schloss Gemüse-, Obst-, Oliven- und Weingärten in sich. |  | 03/28/2006 | 255 |
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 | Molly Brown's summer house, Avoca Lodge, now in Lakewood, Colorado. | | 08/23/2005 | 271 |
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 | Lullingstone Roman Villa is a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain, situated near the village of Eynsford in northwest Kent, south eastern England.
It is unknown which family lived in the villa and owned the large estate that would have surrounded it, though they would have had to be wealthy. They may have been Roman, though they could also have been native Britons ... | | 10/21/2009 | 16 |
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 | The Villa Savoye is considered by many to be the seminal work of the Swiss modernist architect Le Corbusier. Situated at Poissy, outside of Paris, it is one of the most recognisable architectural presentations of the International Style. Construction was substantially completed ca. 1929. The Villa Savoye was designed as a weekend country house and is situated just outside of the small villag... |  | 05/12/2006 | 499 |
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 | This is the house of Benny Andersson (ABBA). It''s called Villa Lido. | | 10/22/2007 | 506 |
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 | Casa Mouraria shown in construction, although the villa was completed and occupied in Spring 2005. The luxury 7 bedroom villa has its own pool, jacuzzi, tennis court, disco, and expansive gardens. | | 09/05/2006 | 308 |
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 | Villa Bouchina was a house of internment (a reservation camp) in the Dutch city of Doetinchem where the Germans held nine Jewish people during World War II, with the intention to protect these 'prisoners'. The interned people had had a certain importance to The Netherlands or Germany before the war, and therefore the Germans helped them to survive for a while.
But there were also... | | 09/03/2009 | 26 |
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 | The reconstructed house where Simón Bolívar was born in 1783. The museum's exhibits include period weapons, banners and uniforms. | | 09/18/2005 | 339 |
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