Mr White also engaged Tersling to build three stately villas in the surroundings.

Tucked up in the golden hills, away from the stately villas and incongruously ornate mansions, sits what might seem the creation of a beautifully demented child.

There was but one grim splotch on the landscape-a charred expanse of ashes and blackened stone, where, Conan knew, had once stood the stately villa of one of his staunchest supporters.

Naples is noted for its numerous stately villas, such as the Neoclassical Villa Floridiana, built in 1816.

The landed aristocracy and merchants who formed the Palestinian upper class built stately multi-storied villas during this period; many of these estates are still standing today.

The couple hired a Prague architect and spent another $40,000 transforming the schoolhouse into a stately villa.

In the elegant Miramar section, meanwhile, where many diplomats reside in stately villas, smartly dressed Cubans strolling amid the ornamentalshrubbery of Fifth Avenue are almost all white.

The grateful Premier had bestowed upon the doctor a stately villa and vast acreage on the lovely Manha Peninsula, along with a full complement of servants.

They have strewn churches, princely palaces and stately villas all over Catholic Europe, especially in Vienna, Madrid, Prague and Warsaw.

After reunification, Iraq's East and West German Embassies consolidated in Bonn, then moved into a stately villa in southwestern Berlin last fall.