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The villa concept lived and lives on in the Haciendas of Latin America and the Estancias of Brazil and Argentina. The oldest are original Portuguese and Spanish Colonial architecture; followed after independences in the Americas from Spain and Portugal, by the Spanish Colonial Revival style with regional variations. The popularity of Mediterranean Revival architecture in its various iterations ove...
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Arcachon is known for the Arcachonnaise, the local name for an Arcachon villa, which is the architectural style of many of the older houses built there. It is a type of Victorian architecture. Arcachon is a small community in the Gironde region in southwestern France.  It is a popular resort location on the Atlantic coast 55 kilometres (34 mi) southwest of Bordeaux in the Landes forest. It has a f...
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