1.   In nearby Malibu, the famed J. Paul Getty Museum, an exact replica of a Roman country villa, will be reopened in three years.

2.   It is possible to reserve rooms in many private homes, some of which are superb palaces or resplendent country villas known as solares.

3.   With the end of the civilized age that gave rise to monumental cities and large country villas, the urbane practice of making topiaries was nipped in the bud.

4.   Pope John Paul II offered warm greetings to thousands of pilgrims Sunday who shivered in sub-freezing weather at the papal country villa.

5.   Four people were arrested in a raid on a country villa which authorities say housed possibly the biggest producing ecstasy laboratory in Europe.

6.   The couple are now accommodated just outside Bucharest, in a country villa in the Scroviste forest, a retreat favored by former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu for hunting expeditions.

7.   He won his recall despite peppering journalists with airgun pellets outside his country villa north of Buenos Aires earlier this year.

8.   Victims struck by pellets outside his country villa north of Buenos Aires, then complained to police, and a court confiscated his passport.