Villa D'Onghia

At the end of an ordinary street in a southern Italian town, Villa D’Onghia rises with an air of composed eccentricity. The building stretches lengthwise across two main floors, but its true signature is the neo-Gothic lookout tower that juts from the north-east corner, a small, angular flourish above the original core. To this older block, a lower annexe was added, its flat roof serving as a terrace for the piano nobile. The whole facade is washed in a single, uniform colour, against which the decorative details stand out in sharp white: the window frames, the moulded cornices, the corbels and downpipes near the roofline, and the little balconies on their brackets. Some of the original window frames remain, quietly holding their place. What was once a working citrus grove still surrounds the villa, tying the architectural conceit to the practical landscape that sustained it.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.