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In the 1950s, part of the villa's garden was destroyed to make way for Transfiguration Avenue. The belvedere was retained as a
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The tower was restored in 1995 and 1996, and is listed as a Grade 1 property by the
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which belonged to the Marquis Depiro. It was designed by the architect
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within a private garden, and it is now located on a
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Folly
Neoclassic
Lija
Malta
Lija
Government of Malta
Limestone
Giuseppe Bonavia
belvedere
Lija
Malta
folly
roundabout

Villa Gourigon
folly
Villa Gourigon
villa
Giuseppe Bonavia
roundabout
Lija
Malta Environment and Planning Authority
National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands


"Villa Gourgion"
the original
"Villa Gourgion and the Lija Belvedere"
the original

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