A stone villa from the 2nd to 4th century once stood here on the Roman road from Trier to Cologne.

On its summit there are approximately 150 stone villas built in the 1920s and 30s by foreign businessmen, missionaries and Chinese gangsters.

Scattered here and there amongst the rolling fields were large stone villas.

The stucco-covered stone villa nestled in an acre of pine trees overlooking the Mediterranean.

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One between the stone villas in the present Drumchapel Gardens.

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Alex lifted the latch on the familiar wrought-iron gate and walked up the short path to the little stone villa where he'd grown up.

We arrived all in one piece,' Ashley said, as she drew the car to a halt outside the stone villa.

He had visited Massimo and Giulia's stone villa for other happy suppers, in other years.