Presently it passed through a tall iron gateway and stopped before a huge pink villa surrounded by poplars and mimosa.

Several villas surrounded by high stone walls appeared, but for the most part the houses were huts held together with little more than prayer.

Would Comrade Toynbee object to her Italian villa being surrounded by wind farms?

Today, a visit to the Renaissance-style villa surrounded by 23-acres of formal gardens is an opportunity to see how Tulsa's early oil-rich lived.

In the past few weeks he had taken to living in this villa, surrounded by the peacefulness of the golf course and the woodland creatures.

Development took the form of town houses, small 19th century buildings and other villas surrounded by gardens.

There were pale, whitewashed villas surrounded - by lush gardens, now overgrown; and some of the houses were boarded up.

The manor house is built on the Point and all the buildings which are built around it makes it appear as a little villa surrounded with water.

He died in his villa surrounded by friends on 30 May 1744, about eleven o'clock at night.

She is then seen walking through the villa in colorful outfits, surrounded by dancing chairs, dancing radios, and multiple versions of herself.