About Villa
A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper-class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably.
Love Island All Stars: ITV confirms series for 2024
... After months of rumours, the broadcaster confirmed its plan to bring back familiar faces to the Villa in South Africa...
The flatpack homes rehousing Ukrainian families
... " Everywhere was fire, " recalls Alla Pylypenko, a teacher, as she describes the terrible afternoon last March when Russian tanks attacked her Village in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine...
Singapore's rave scene offers freedom in a straight-laced city
... Last November we met at a rave at Haw Par Villa - a hell-themed amusement park in the city s west dotted with statues of figures from Chinese mythology: topless mermaids, warrior demons and wizened old sages like Confucius...
Czechoslovakia: Czechs and Slovaks mark 30 years since Velvet Divorce
... But their fast-track divorce - the terms of which were scribbled down in the garden of a Villa - is very much in the past...
Chris Williamson: Bullied at school, bored on Love Island, now a podcast star
... As a 27-year-old model and nightclub promoter, a month in the sun-kissed Villa, shown nightly on ITV2, promised a new level of fame...
WSL season: Chelsea boss Emma Hayes says Euros win is just the start
... The fixtures also include Aston Villa and Leicester playing at the grounds used by their men s teams - Villa Park and the King Power Stadium - on Sunday afternoon...
How Covid disinformation has fuelled attacks on Czech doctors
... The two-storey Villa - one of three dozen set out in the hospital s extensive, tree-lined grounds - has been transformed into a training centre, a replica of one of Bohnice s clinics...
South Georgia: The museum at the end of the world reopens for business
... But the relatively grand manager s Villa - built in 1914 - remained usable...