The Naples Palazzo Where Modern Italy Was Declared Is on the Market

Where the modern nation of Italy was born: Giuseppe Garibaldi, the revolutionary general leading the campaign to unify Italy, publicly declared that the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in on September 7, 1860 from the palace’s principal balcony. the final, symbolic step that allowed modern Italy to come into being months later.

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Paris-Area Pavillon de Musique Built for Madame du Barry Sells for $44.8M

A neoclassical pleasure pavilion designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux has reportedly sold just west of Paris after years on the market. Built in 1771 for Madame du Barry, the last official mistress of Louis XV, the Pavillon de Musique du Barry remains one of the most architecturally significant heritage estates to trade hands in recent years.

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A 17th-Century Palazzo in Rural Oxfordshire Seeks £16 Million

Built around 1679–80 as a gift for an Italian princess, it was modelled on the palatial forms recorded by Peter Paul Rubens in Palazzi di Genova (1622)—the influential volume that introduced Northern Europe to Genoa’s Renaissance palaces—the Grade II* limestone house is a rare example of Italianate classicism transposed into the English countryside.

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