Villa Le Balze

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Villa Le Balze is a garden villa at Vecchia Fiesolana 26, Fiesole, Italy. The Villa is owned by Georgetown University and host year round study abroad students. Planed in 1911 by Cecil Pinsent for American Charles Augustus Strong, it was built in a tight space along the Tuscan hills overlooking the city of Florence. "Balze" is Italian for cliffs, referring to this situation.

In December 1979, the Marquesa Margaret Rockefeller de Larrain, granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller, gifted the Villa le Balze to Georgetown University.^[1] Georgetown uses the Villa for year-round for study abroad focused on specialized interdisciplinary study of Italian culture and civilization.^[2]

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• Official site
• Villa Le Balze and Cecil Pinsent

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