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Villa Madama Even uncompleted, the Villa Madama, in Rome, Italy, with its loggia and segmental columned garden court and its casino with an open center, was one of the most famous and imitated villas and terraced gardens of the High Renaissance.
Villa Mairea Villa Mairea is a villa, guest-house and rural retreat built by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto for Harry and Maire Gullichsen in Noormarkku, Finland. The Gullichsens were a wealthy couple and members of the Ahlström — Gullichsen family.
Villa MarĂ­a Villa MarĂ­a (not to be confused with Villa de MarĂ­a) is the third city in CĂłrdoba Province, Argentina, and the head town of the General San MartĂ­n Department. It is located in the center of rich agricultural land.
Villa Medici at Careggi The Villa Medici at Careggi in the hills near Florence, was among the firstThe villa at Cafaggiolo and the Villa del Trebbio in the valley of the Mugello had been previous purchases. of a number of Medici villas, notable as the site of the Platonic academy founded by Cosimo de' Medici, who died at the villa in 1464.
Villa Medici in Fiesole The following description of Villa Medici, which attributes its design to Leon Battista Alberti, is a hypothetical assertion based on questionable reasoning, and remains unsubstantiated by any concrete or conclusive evidence.
Villa Molin Villa Molin is a patrician residence at Mandria, in Ponte della Cagna, South of Padua, Veneto (northern Italy). It was designed for Nicolò Molin, a Venetian noble,Molin was after the villa's completion the Venetian ambassador to James I of England.
Villa Mondragone Villa Mondragone is a patrician villa originally in the territory of the Italian commune of Frascati (Lazio), now in the territory of Monte Porzio Catone (Alban Hills). It lies on a hill 416m above sea-level, in an area with many villas called Castelli Romani about 20 Km south east of Rome, near the ancient town of Tusculum.
Villa Montalvo Villa Montalvo is an Italian Mediterranean style mansion nestled in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in Saratoga, California, United States. It was constructed from 1912 to 1914 by California statesman and businessman James Duval Phelan.
Villa Montalvo Arboretum The Villa Montalvo Arboretum 137 acres (554,000 m²) is an arboretum and botanical garden located behind the Montalvo Art Center, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga, California, USA in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains west of Santa Clara Valley. It is managed by Santa Clara County Parks, open to the public free during daylight hours, and run as a non-profit organization for art, artists and local communities.
Villa of Livia The villa of Livia Drusilla called Ad Gallinas Albas was probably part of Livia's dowry brought to the Julio-Claudian dynasty. It was named and famous for its breed of white chickens and for its laurel grove (Pliny's Natural History 15.
Villa of the Papyri The Villa of the Papyri is a private house of ancient Roman city of Herculaneum (current commune of Ercolano) owned by Julius Caesar's father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus: its remains were first excavated in 1765 by Karl Weber. Its name derives from the discovery of a library in the house containing 1,800 carbonized papyrus scrolls.
Villa Ocampo Villa Ocampo is the house of Victoria Ocampo (1890 – 1979), one of Latin american’s great cultural figures, founder and director of the Sur magazine. The house is located in San Isidro, Argentina, approximately 30 km north of Buenos Aires city.
Villa Paletti Villa Paletti is a board game of physical skill designed by Bill Payne and published in 2001 by Zoch Verlag. Players compete to build the villa highest using columns from lower floors without collapsing the structure.
Villa Paranacito Villa Paranacito is a town in the southeast corner of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina, head town of the Islas del Ibicuy Departament. It is located at the heart of the low-lying Ibicuy Islands in the Paraná Delta and is the administrative centre for the dispersed inhabitants of the islands and the delta's timber producers.
Villa Park High School Villa Park High School is a traditional 4 year public high school located in the city of Villa Park in Orange County, California. Villa Park High is one of four comprehensive high schools in the Orange Unified School District.
Villa Park, California Villa Park is an incorporated city located in northern Orange County, California. Villa Park is Orange County's smallest city in population but not in area (La Palma is Orange County's smallest city in area); The population was 5,999 at the 2000 census.
Villa Pigneto del Marchese Sacchetti The Villa Pigneto or Sacchetti, or also the Casino al Pigneto del Marchese Sacchetti was an architecturally prominent building designed by the Baroque artist Pietro da Cortona. A second, plainer, Villa Sacchetti, now calle Villa Chigi, is found at Castelfusano near Ostia and was decorated (if not designed) by Cortona]].
Villa Pojana Villa Pojana or Poiana, is a patrician villa in Poiana Maggiore, Veneto (northern Italy). Designed by the Renaissance master architect Andrea Palladio, it is one of the Palladian Villas of the Veneto listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Villa Progreso Villa Progreso, originally called Bothë, was founded by originating otomíes of the province of Xilotepec that were dedicated mainly to agriculture and the raising of cattle, occurring earth favor in 1616 and 1617. It took by name the Tetillas by his two hills that have this form.
Villa Romano Villa Romano is one of the greatest estates of "Valle della Cupa" and the biggest in Monteroni di Lecce, Italy. The main building is structured in two floors: the ground floor was built for household staff's and peasants' accommodation and for warehousing, while the first floor was the "piano nobile" reserved to the landlord's family.
Villa San Michele The Villa San Michele was built around the turn of the 20th century, by the Swedish physician, Axel Munthe, on the ruins of the Roman Emperor, Tiberius' villa, on the Island of Capri. Its gardens have panoramic views of the city of Capri and its marina, the Sorrentine Peninsula, and Mount Vesuvius.
Villa Savoye The Villa Savoye is considered by many to be the seminal work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Situated at Poissy, outside of Paris, it is one of the most recognisable architectural presentations of the International Style.
Villa Traful Villa Traful is a town of the Argentine province of Neuquén located at the shore of the Traful Lake, at 720 meters above mean sea level. It is located inside the Nahuel Huapi National Park on the Road of the Seven lakes, 60 km from Villa La Angostura and 100 km from Bariloche, at .
Villa Tugendhat The Villa Tugendhat is considered a masterpiece of the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Built in 1930 in Brno, in today's Czech Republic, for Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta, the villa soon became an icon of modern architecture.
Villa Urselli Aristocratic mansion build in front of Villa Romano and located in Monteroni di Lecce, Italy, at the heart of "Valle della Cupa". The façade dates back to the late 1800s (early Art nouveau-period, with a style spelling into the Victorian English architecture).
Villa Verdi Villa Verdi is located in the village of Sant'Agata in the commune of Villanova sull'Arda in the Italian province of Piacenza. Villa Verdi is the house which the famous opera composer Guiseppi Verdi owned from 1848 to the end of his life in 1901, and it is less than two miles from the village of Le Roncole, where he was born in 1813, and the town of Busseto where he lived from 1824.
Villa Volta Villa Volta is an attraction in amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands. It is a rare type of ride known as a 'haunted swing' or 'madhouse', which is a sort of haunted house, where the visitors get the illusion that either the building, the visitors themselves or both are turned upside down.
Villa Welgelegen Villa Welgelegen, the current offices of the provincial executives of North Holland, the Netherlands is located at the north end of a public park in Haarlem. It is a prime example of neoclassical architecture, unusual for its style in the Netherlands.
Villa Winter Villa Winter is a villa located in the area around Cofete, Canary Islands, in front of the mountain range of JandĂ­a and in the peninsula on the southwestern part of the island of Fuerteventura. The villa is modeled after a villa first built in 1893 in the Black Forest by an engineer Gustav Winter.
Villa Zorayda Villa Zorayda (also known as the Zorayda Castle) is a scaled-down version of the 12th-century Moorish Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. It was built by the eccentric millionaire Franklin Smith in 1883 as his private home in St.
Villaḥormes Villaḥormes (formerly, Villahormes, in Spanish language, until 2005 when it changed its name to the asturian one) is a village in the parish of Ḥontoria in Llanes municipality, in eastern Asturias, Spain. Its railway station has linked the city of Llanes with Ribadesella since 1905.
Villabandin Villabandin is a small hamlet part of 15 or so that lead approximately 100 kilometers away from the city of LeĂłn, LeĂłn in the province of Castile-Leon in north eastern Spain. The population is estimated to be less than ten people, although during the summer months families come together to expand the hamlet's population.
Village (United States) The word village has many meanings relating to local government in the United States. Since the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution makes local government for the most part a matter for the states rather than the federal government, the states are free to have political subdivisions called "villages," or not to do so, and to define the word in many different ways.
Village Area Network The concept of the Village Area Network or (VAN) was coined to demonstrate the importance of a networked community of technology users in small villages throughout the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta in southwest Alaska.
Village blackout Village Blackout is a tent used in the film and photography industry. The tent creates a "blacked out" work space in order to use video monitors for HD (high definition) video work or computer displays for digital still photography.
Village communities VILLAGE COMMUNITIES: The study of village communities has become one of the fundamental methods of discussing the ancient history of institutions. It will be sufficient to confine the present inquiry to the varieties presented by nations of Aryan race, not because greater importance is to be attached to these nations than to other branches of humankind, although this view might also be reasonably urged, but principally because the Aryan race in its history has gone through all sorts of experiences, and the data gathered from its historical life can be tolerably well ascertained.
Village Earth Village Earth: The Consortium for Sustainable Village-Based Development is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1993 that promotes community-based development through consultation, training, and networking with individuals, communities, and organizations around the globe. Village Earth was founded on the premise that the problem that most rural villages face is not "lack of money" but rather a "lack of access to resources" such as natural resources, financial services, or training.
Village gods in Taoism In Daoism, the God of Village have developed from land worship. Before Gods of Towns dominated in China, land worship had a hierarchy of deities conforming strictly to social structure, in which the emperor, kings, dukes, officials and common people were allowed to worship only the land gods within their command; the highest land deity was the Earthly Queen of the Four Imperial Ones.
Village green A village green is a common open area which is a part of a settlement. Traditionally, such an area was often common grass land at the centre of a small agricultural settlement, used for grazing and sometimes for community events.
Village guard system Village guards (Turkish: Korucular, officially Geçici ve Gönüllü Köy Korucuları ("contemporary and voluntary village guards")) are paramilitaries. Originally they were set up and funded by the Turkish state in the mid 1980s under the direction of Turgut Özal.
Village hall A village hall is a building within a village which is owned by and run for the local community. It is typically used for many functions such as parish council meetings, bowls club headquarters, Community theatre, dance venue, jumble sales and more besides.
Village head A village head or headman is a person (nearly always a man) in many village–based tribal societies who functions as a leader but whose coercive authority is severely limited or nonexistent. The existence of a headman is usually associated with societies without complex political structures.
Village Homes Village Homes is a planned community in Davis, California, designed to be ecologically sustainable. The more than 200 houses in the development utilize solar panels for heating, and are oriented around common areas at the rear of the buildings, rather than around the street at the front.
Village Christian School Village Christian School is a private, Fundamentalist Christian K-12 school located in Sun Valley, California, a part of the City of Los Angeles. It was founded in 1946 by members of Village Church in nearby Burbank.
Village Institutes Village Institutes (In Turkish: Köy Enstitüleri) is a group of co-ed, public, boarding, normal schools that were operational between 1940 and 1954 in Turkey. They were the cornerstones of the rural development project.
Village Level Operation and Maintenance (pumps) Village Level Operation and Maintenance, commonly VLOM, refers to the use of a hand pump which requires minimal maintenance. It is sometimes referred to as VLOMM, or Village Level Operation and Management of Maintenance.
Village Links of Glen Ellyn The Village Links of Glen Ellyn is a public golf course located in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The golf course was founded in 1967 and has long been recognized as one of the top golf courses in the Chicago area.
Village Museum The Village Museum (Muzeul Satului in Romanian) is an open-air ethnographic museum located in the Herăstrău Park (Bucharest, Romania), showcasing traditional Romanian village life. The museum extends to over 100,000 m2, and contains 272 authentic peasant farms and houses from all over Romania.
Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas Village of Belle Terre v. Borass (1974) is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the constitutionality of a residential zoning ordinance that limited the number of unrelated individuals who may inhabit a dwelling.
Village of Four Seasons, Pennsylvania The Village of the Four Seasons is a private resort community found in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania located at the base of Elk Mountain Ski Resort. It is a secluded vacation getaway for those in the metropolitan Philadelphia and New York areas.
Village on Wheels Village on Wheels are the special train introduced by the Indian Railways to cater to the budget tourists, especially villagers, hence the name. The trains connect the selected tourist destinations, usually a circular schedule.
Village Phone The Village Phone (Bengali: Polli Fon) programme is a unique initiative of Grameen Telecom, one of the largest telecommunication service providers in Bangladesh. With the help of GrameenPhone, this programme provides mobile phones to villages without access to fixed land lines.
Village sign A village sign in some areas of the United Kingdom is a symbol of a village's history, heritage, or culture. They are different from regular road signs int that they are decorative, sometimes made out of cast iron or wood, and are often made by the local community.
Village Theatre The Village Theatre is a501c3 non-profit professional producing musical theatre company founded in 1979. The Village Theatre is based out of the Pacific Northwest, in Washington State, around the Seattle and Puget Sound area.
Village Voice Film Poll The Village Voice Film Poll was an annual polling by The Village Voice film section of more than 100 major film critics for alternative media sources. Although the majority of the critics work for the alt-weeklies, a number are former Voice critics who now work for the mainstream media or have retired.
Village Voice Media Village Voice Media is a privately held corporation that owns the Village Voice, the nation's oldest (founded in 1955) and largest alternative weekly newspaper, as well as LA Weekly, OC Weekly in Orange County, California, Seattle Weekly, City Pages in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Nashville Scene, Cleveland Scene, Dallas Observer, Westword in Denver, East Bay Express in Oakland, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Houston Press, The Pitch in Kansas City, Miami New Times, Phoenix New Times, SF Weekly in San Francisco, and Riverfront Times in St.
Village-bonded society Village Bonded Societies are the largest classification of acephalous societies. They differ from lineage-bonded societies and land-bonded societies mainly in that they are large enough to support both secret societies and age sets.
Villages of China The village (Chinese: ćť‘, pinyin: cun) in China serves as a fundamental organizational unit for its rural population(census, mail system). Basic local divisions like neighborhoods and communities are not informal like in the West, but have defined boundaries and designated heads (one per area).
Villages of Indonesia A village (kelurahan/desa) is the lowest level of administrative division in Indonesia. A village is divided into RW (Rukun Warga) and RT (Rukun Tetangga), local community which manages certain number of households.
Villach Villach [ˈfɪlax] (Slovenian Beljak) is the second largest city in Carinthia in the south of Austria, on the river Drau (Slovenian Drava) and represents an important traffic junction for Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. It currently has 57,646 inhabitants.
Villain of the week "Villain of the week" (or, depending on genre, "monster of the week" or "freak of the week") is a term that describes the nature of one-use antagonists in episodic fiction, specifically ongoing American genre-based television series. As many shows of this type air episodes weekly at a rate of one or two dozen new episodes per year, there is often a new antagonist to forward the plot of each week's episode.
Villains and Vigilantes Villains and Vigilantes was a popular superhero-themed role-playing game (and arguably Fantasy Games Unlimited's most famous game) written by Jack Herman and Jeff Dee, competing primarily with Champions and Superworld in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Villains in Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo In the manga Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, Bo-bobo's battles with the Hair Hunters leads to encounters with rivals and villains of all sorts. This section outlines many of the villains based on each of the arcs of the series.
Villains in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The fictional villains of the Power Rangers universe that appeared in the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the film Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie were aliens serving or allied to Rita Repulsa and/or, later, Lord Zedd, including the warrior Goldar.
Villains in Power Rangers in Space The fictional villains of the Power Rangers universe that appeared in the television series Power Rangers in Space were aliens, and members of the United Alliance of Evil under the command of Dark Specter. This included many villains from previous seasons of Power Rangers, and some that had not appeared before.
Villains in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder The fictional villains of the Power Rangers universe that appeared in the television series Power Rangers: Dino Thunder were servants of the dinosaur-like Mesogog, who intended to restore the Earth to the primal glory of the age of dinosaurs. Information about them can be found below.
Villains in Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy The fictional villains of the Power Rangers universe that appeared in the television series Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy were the generals in the army of the insectoid warlord Scorpius and later his daughter Trakeena. They all served aboard the space ship, the Scorpion Stinger.
Villains in Power Rangers: Mystic Force The fictional villains of the Power Rangers universe that appeared in the television series Power Rangers: Mystic Force are magical beings that dwell underground, known as the Forces of Darkness; they were also referred to as the Morlocks in promotional material, though this reference was never made in the show. Originally, the Forces of Darkness attempted to take over the magical world with their sights set on the human realm as well.
Villains in Power Rangers: Time Force The fictional villains of the Power Rangers universe that appeared in the television series Power Rangers: Time Force were, for the most part, mutant criminals that had travelled back in time with the criminal Ransik (exceptions include his robotic minion Frax, and the demon Quargenon, who appeared only once in the crossover with Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue).
Villains in Power Rangers: Wild Force The fictional villains of the Power Rangers universe that appeared in the television series Power Rangers: Wild Force were pollution-oriented creatures called Orgs (as were the villains in the corresponding Super Sentai series).
Villains of Pugad Baboy Throughout the years, Pugad Baboy creator Pol Medina has created villains and rogues to challenge his main characters, some of which were based on the scourges of the Philippine social and political environment. Sometimes they were the people within the law, like Patrolman Durugas and Senator Cabalfin.
Villains United Villains United is a six-issue comic book limited series, written by Gail Simone with art by Dale Eaglesham and Wade von Grawbadger, published by DC Comics in 2005. Due to illness, Eaglesham could not provide the interior art for the third issue, so Val Semeiks stepped in to produce the pencils with Prentis Rollins supplying the inks.
Villainy & Virtue Villainy & Virtue is the second full length album released by Chicago, Illinois-based metalcore band Dead to Fall. With their second release, the band shows more progression instrumentally, showing no lack of inspiration, but rather they seem to have drawn in more of the melodic death elements that set their debut release apart from the rest of the genre.
Villalba, Puerto Rico Villalba (vee-YAHL-bah) is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central region, northeast of Juana DĂ­az; south of Orocovis; and west of Coamo. Villalba is spread over 6 wards and Villalba Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
Villamartin Villamartin is one of the many new developments in the past decade in the Spanish region of Costa Blanca in the Valencia region. The place is very popular with the tourists and most of the population consists of Western European expat communities who have settled there in the last 10 years, virtually transforming the village into a modern-looking town.
VillanĂşa VillanĂşa is a Pyrenean municipality in Spain in the north of Huesca province, in la Jacetania, set where the Aragon valley gets wider. Its name refers to the "new village" repopulated in the late 10th century.
Villancico Villancico (or Vilancete, in Portuguese) was a common lyric form of the Iberian Peninsula, in the Renaissance epoch. The villancicos could also be adapted to music: many Iberian composers of the 15th and 16th century, like Juan del Encina or Pedro de Escobar composed musical villancicos.
Villanella In music, a villanella (pl. villanelle — not to be confused with the French poetic form villanelle) is a form of light Italian secular vocal music which originated in Italy just before the middle of the 16th century.
Villanelle A villanelle is a poetic form which entered English-language poetry in the late 1800s from the imitation of French models. Nineteen lines long, they are poems written in Tercets with only two rhymes, the first and third line of the first stanza alternating as the third line in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close.
Villanova University Villanova University is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania Main Line. Founded in 1842 by the Augustinian monastic order, the university can trace its roots back to old Saint Augustine's Church in Philadelphia, which the Augustinians founded in 1796, and to its parish school, Saint Augustine's Academy, which was established in 1811.
Villanovan culture The Villanovan culture was the earliest Iron Age culture of central and northern Italy, abruptly following the Bronze Age Terramare culture and giving way in the 7th century BCE to an increasingly Orientalizing culture influenced by Greek traders, which was followed without a severe break by the Etruscan civilization. Villanovan cultural origins, but perhaps not all its peoples, lay in the Eastern Alps, with connections to the Halstatt culture.
Villanueva de Oscos Villanueva de Oscos (Eonavian: Vilanova d'Ozcos) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Vegadeo and Castropol, on the south by San MartĂ­n and Santa Eulalia de Oscos, on the east by Illano and San MartĂ­n, and on the west by Taramundi.
Villanueva del Conde Villanueva del Conde is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 78 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 251 people.
Villar de Samaniego Villar de Samaniego is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 81 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 119 people.
Villarceau circles In geometry, Villarceau circles (pronounced ) are a pair of circles produced by cutting a torus diagonally through the center at the correct angle. Given an arbitrary point on a torus, four circles can be drawn through it.
Villard de Honnecourt Villard de Honnecourt was possibly a 13th century itinerant master-builder of Picardy in northern France, whose surviving portfolio of drawings (ca 1230s?) is in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (MS Fr 19093).
Villard Houses The Villard Houses are located at 451 Madison Avenue in Manhattan Borough of New York City between 50th and 51st Street. The building was constructed in 1884, designed by the architecture firm McKim, Mead and White three years afer they started their company.
Villard Noir Villard Noir is a red wine hybrid grape that is grown primarily in southwestern France with some plantings in Bordeaux. A cross between the hybrid Seibel grapes-Chancellor and Seibel 6905, the vine is normally grafted onto Berlandieri rootstock.
Villarino de los Aires Villarino de los Aires is a large municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located in the very north of the province and has a population of 1040 people.
Villarrica National Park Villarrica National Park is located in the Andes, in the Araucanía Region of Chile, near Pucón. The centerpiece of the park is a group of three volcanoes trending transverse to the Andean range: Villarrica, Quetrupillán and Lanín.
Villarrica, Chile Villarrica is a city in southern Chile located on the western shore of Villarrica Lake in the Province of CautĂ­n, AraucanĂ­a Region 746 km south of Santiago and close to the Villarrica Volcano ski center to the south east. Residents of Villarrica are known as Villarriquences (pronounced vee-ah ree-ken'-says ).
Villas Boas brothers Orlando Villas Boas (1914-2002) and his brothers Cláudio Villas Boas (1916-1998) and Leonardo Villas Boas (1918-1961) were Brazilian activists regarding indigenous peoples. In 1961 they succeeded in getting the entire upper Xingu legally protected – the first huge indigenous area in all South America, and the prototype for dozens of similar reserves all over the continent.
Villaseco de los Gamitos Villaseco de los Gamitos is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 40 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 212 people.
Villasur expedition The Villasur expedition (1720) was a Spanish military expedition intended to check the growing French presence on the Great Plains of central North America. Led by Lieutenant-General Pedro de Villasur, the expedition ended with a defeat at the hands of the Pawnee.
Villatina Massacre The Villatina Massacre was a massacre of eight children and one young adult by the Colombian police that took place on November 15, 1992. Colombian police had been killed by youth gangs before the massacre took place, and the Colombian police were attempting to exact revenge against the gangs by carrying out the massacre.
Villawood Immigration Detention Centre Villawood Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) is an Australian immigration detention facility located in the suburb of Villawood in Sydney, Australia. The purpose of the facility, according to The Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, is to "mainly accommodate over-stayers, people in breach of their visa conditions, or people refused entry at Australia's international airports”.
Villayón Villayón is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Navia, on the west by Coaña, Boal and Illano, on the east by Valdés, Tineo y Allande and on the south by Allande.
Ville Emard Juveniles The Ville Emard Juveniles was a junior football team from Ville Emard, Quebec, and played in the in the Quebec Senior Football League, Quebec Juvenile Football League and theQuebec Junior Football League in the 1950's and 1960's.
Ville Kantee Ville Kantee (born December 8 1978) is a former Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1997 to 2004. He won two team (large and normal) silver medals the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti and 9th in the individual large hill at those same championships.
Ville Laihiala Ville Laihiala (born June 13, 1973 in Oulu, Finland) is the current vocalist and guitarist of the Finnish Gothic metal group Poisonblack. He was also the frontman for Sentenced from 1996 until the group broke up in 2005.

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