Villa Lorizio-Antonino

At first glance, Villa Lorizio-Antonino presents a stern, symmetrical face to the world. Its rectangular plan is dominated by a central, projecting block, a two-storey stairwell capped with a pavilion roof. Lower wings spread out to either side, their flat roofs forming terraces. The elevations are balanced and orderly: a stone portal with a round arch is echoed above by a double window, its slim colonnette a nod to something older, perhaps medieval. Wrought-iron balustrades grace the balconies. Inside, the villa has been divided into six residential units and a storeroom, a pragmatic conversion from its original life as a single country house. It is a building of composed, rational lines, a reminder that even in the Italian countryside, the neoclassical taste for symmetry and proportion held firm, turning a working villa into a small, dignified statement of order.

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