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Villa La Pietra
- When to go
- Check opening hours before you go
Getting there
- Getting there
- BOLOGNESE LA PIETRA · bus 25, 302 A, 307 A · 470 mLa Pietra · bus 302 A, 307 A · 470 mBOLOGNESE SAN MARCO VECCHIO · bus 25 · 490 m
About
Villa La Pietra is a renaissance villa in the hills outside Florence, in Tuscany, central Italy. It was formerly the home of Arthur Acton (1873–1953) and later of his son Harold Acton, on whose death in 1994 it was bequeathed to New York University. The villa is now home to NYU Florence. Villa La Pietra was bought and somewhat modified in the 1460s by the Florentine banker Francesco Sassetti. In 1545 or 1546, it was sold to the Capponi family. The villa was given its present form in the seventeenth century by the cardinal Luigi Capponi, possibly with the assistance of Carlo Fontana. During the brief period from 1865 to 1871 when Florence was capital of the Kingdom of Italy, the villa was used as the embassy of Prussia.
- Style
- Renaissance architecture
Inside
- Biblioteca della New York University
- Acton Collection