Villa Oliva

Villa Oliva

Villa Oliva is a village in the Ñeembucú department of Paraguay.

Villa

A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house that provided an escape from urban life. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity, sometimes transferred to the Church for reuse as a monastery. They gradually re-evolved through the Middle Ages into elegant upper-class country homes. In the early modern period, any comfortable detached house with a garden near a city or town was likely to be described as a villa; most surviving villas have now been engulfed by suburbia. In modern parlance, "villa" can refer to various types and sizes of residences, ranging from the suburban semi-detached double villa to, in some countries, especially around the Mediterranean, residences of above average size in the countryside.

Oliva

Oliva is a municipality in the comarca of Safor in the Valencian Community, Spain. To its east lie 10 kilometres of coastline and beaches fronting the Mediterranean Sea, and 8 kilometres to the north is Gandia.

villa

Noun

1. A house, often larger and more expensive than average, in the countryside or on the coast, often used as a retreat.
2. A family house, often semi-detached in Victorian or Edwardian style, in a middle class street.

Noun

1. A country house, with farm buildings around a courtyard.

oliva

Noun

1. olivary body