Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Villas for the Leisured

Carmel Spiteri BA (Hons.), MA is an interior designer by profession and very interested in architectural conservation and History of Art. His MA dissertation in History of Art at the University of Malta was about country villas of the eighteenth century in Malta

 

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Sponsored by the Alfred Mizzi Foundation. The Knights of the Order of Saint John set a trend for the higher social classes to build villas outside the walls of the fortified cities. The basic idea of the villa suburban was to have a home away from home, a villa di delizia, for the relaxation of body and mind. Essentially to satisfy the ‘psychological and ideological needs of its patron.

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