Adrian Woodford admires the many sumptuous villas that line the Brenta Canal as he cruises from Venice to Padua.

Bernard Berenson had the villa next door and distinguished visitors streamed into the sumptuous villa (Moorehead provides a fine account of the deeply established English community in Florence).

A Runaway bride, one of 50 sisters escaping marriage contracts, takes refuge in a sumptuous Italian villa.

Look down any street and you travel back to an age of wealthy Spanish merchants living it up in their sumptuous villas, bougainvillea cascading from balconies.

In 1543 he purchased the ancient fortified castle of Frascarolo, near present-day Induno Olona, in the Valceresio, which he converted into a sumptuous villa,.

She had sumptuous villas in both, caring more for Europe than her native Washington.

Yelagin's sumptuous villa on the eponymous isle to the north of St. Petersburg was later rebuilt into an imperial residence (see Yelagin Palace).

As police chief paid a monthly salary of $500, Mr. Francois managed to build a sumptuous villa in the capital's wealthiest neighborhood.

In conversations in the sumptuous villas of the wealthy in the hills above Amman to the rambling shacks of Palestinian refugee districts, people talk of little else.

There's much here about fragrant orchards and sumptuous villas.