The Villa Caprile, once known as Villa Mosca is a

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rural palace located on Strada di Caprile, outside of the Porta Rimini, in the outskirts of Pesaro, region of Marche, Italy. The villa was built in 1640 as a summer house by the Marquis Giovanni Mosca, which included fountains with

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(water play). His son Francesco had the chapel reconstructed. Carlo Mosca Barzi performed a further reconstruction in a Neoclassical-style. In the 18th century, the arbors were created. The villa was transferred to the commune during the Napoleonic occupations. In 1817–1818, the villa housed

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. In 1876 it housed the ''Scuola pratica di Agricoltura'', and in 1924 it transformed to the ''Scuola Agraria Media''; and today houses the ''Istituto Tecnico Agrario''. The landscaping suffered during the second world war. As of 2015, the gardens and fountains are open for visitors; the interiors of the villa are in need of restoration. They are frescoed with mythologic subjects in the 17th century by

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. Further works were added in the 18th century by

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.Biolaghi e Giardini, entry on Villa Caprile. The garden facade stands on a

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d parterre. Two staircases descend to the next

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with a formal

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, finally, descending further to an elliptical basin has a statue of ''Atlante holding the Globe''.

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