Often, we ll hear people say, We d like to rent a villa. What does villa mean?
We tend to use villa interchangeably for (a) freestanding luxury homes with (or without) their own private swimming pool and/or tennis court, those without pools tending to be in coastal resorts where there is easy access to the sea for swimming; (b) more rustic freestanding farmhouses, with or without their own private swimming pools. (c) freestanding cottages on an estate where, if there is a swimming pool, it is shared by all the renters of the cottages. (d) apartments which form part of a structure and where facilities like the pool are shared. These apartments can be quite elegant and luxurious indeed. Other times, they are far more than decent but not fancy. The structure which has been divided up could be a grand noble palace; it could be a former farmhouse; it could be a mill or other rural outbuilding. The former status of these structures is no indication of the level of luxury to which the owner has restored them. In short, a former bishop s palace could have been divided up
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