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Per la conservazione, fruizione e valorizzazione delle ville storiche di Bagheria. Le speranze del passato i problemi di oggi

2017

The territory that once constituted the "Baronia of Solanto" also included the locality of the "Bagaria", rich in agricultural settlements and, from the second half of the seventeenth century, also of suburban residences of the aristocracy of the nearby Palermo. The villas of Bagheria, with their avenues of access derived from the Baroque and late Baroque, were characterized by the wealth of planimetric solutions, for the use of particular materials, first of all the "stone of Aspra", the valuable calcarenite from golden color, but also for the rich decorations that made it compete with the eighteenth-century villas of Europe. Today this heritage has largely been preserved, also thanks to t…