Villa Favard di Rovezzano, Renaissance villa in Rovezzano, Italy.
Villa Favard di Rovezzano is a Renaissance building with architectural elements from the 15th century that underwent significant modifications in the 19th century. The complex includes a main residence and a park with multiple entrances from surrounding streets.
The Cerchi family sold the fortified rural settlement, then called Palagio dei Pini, to the Bartolini in 1493. In the early 16th century Zanobi Bartolini commissioned Baccio d'Agnolo to rebuild it and lay out the grounds, with a large lawn before the villa. In 1855 it passed to baroness Fiorella Favard, who had Giuseppe Poggi add the neoclassical facade, an English-style garden, stables and a chapel.
Baroness Suzanne Bacheville, born outside the nobility, made her fortune in Paris before settling in Florence and buying the property in 1855. She turned the villa into a centre of culture where the leading intellectuals and artists of the day met. Annibale Gatti and other painters and stuccoists decorated the interiors.
The site can be reached from multiple entrances and provides green spaces that visitors and residents use for walking and spending time outdoors. It helps to allow time for wandering through the park and exploring its different areas.
The chapel on the grounds, now separated from the villa, still belongs to the da Frassineto family, descendants of the baroness. Inside is her mausoleum, with a monument by Giovanni Duprè and frescoes by Annibale Gatti. The villa itself has housed a branch of the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory since 2009.
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