Bagheria is a town of approximately 40,000 inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Palermo in Sicily, Italy. Jump to: navigation, search City nickname: Location Location of Palermo within the island of Sicily. ... Jump to: navigation, search Sicilian disambiguates here; see also Sicilian language or Sicilian Defence. ...

In 1658 Guiseppe Branciforti, Prince of Butera. a former Viceroy of Sicily retired here and built a large villa, in the early 18th century several other aristocratic Sicilian families built villas here to retire to from Palermo. In 1769 one of the Prince's descendents redesigned the former village into a well planned Baroque town, it immediately became a fashionable resort, and many villas in the popular Sicilian Baroque style were built. Most of these have now fallen into ruin, but one such villa, the "Villa Palagonia", reknowned for its complex external staircase, curved facades, and marbled interiors remains in tact. Designed by Tomasso Napoli, it is today open to the public. Events January 13 - Edward Sexby, who had plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 - Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross The Great Belt (Storebælt) in Denmark over frozen sea May 1 - Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by... A viceroy is somebody who governs a country or province as a substitute for the monarch. ... Jump to: navigation, search It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Roman villa. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Aristocracy is a form of government in which rulership is in the hands of an upper class known as aristocrats. ... 1769 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that... Jump to: navigation, search Illustration 1: Sicilian Baroque. ... The word facade (or façade) can mean one of several things. ... Marble This page is about the metamorphic rock. ... Jump to: navigation, search Tomasso Maria Napoli was an early 18th century Dominican order monk who published an architectural treatise on perspective. ...