Villa Damiani e Ipogeo La Vela_ fraz. Carbonara

Beyond the entrance gate, marked by square-shafted columns, a wide courtyard opens. The villa itself is a great, four-storey parallelepiped, its main and rear façades wrapped by a double-height loggia, each side with a different number of round arches, two on one front, three on the other. A single-flight stair, aligned with the gate, leads up to a raised garden behind the house, and from there to the hypogeum. To the right, a tufa-block portico encloses the space beneath the villa’s rear, creating an illusion of an open-air room. The hypogeum is reached by small ramps cut into the earth, entered from either side. Its first chamber is a long space with three arched openings onto the garden, where the wine press stands; beyond, a corridor leads to rooms hewn from the rock, propped by stout columns. Outside the walled property sits the chapel of the Madonna del Velo, commissioned by the Di Venere family.

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