Les Villas a St Tropez, Les Plages, La Ville - The City, Beaches and Villas of Saint Tropez

Villas were originally upper class country homes first designed and conceived in ancient Rome.  The Romans built the homes both in urban and rural locations, and featured several courtyards, servants quarters, and all the luxuries one would come to expect from the modern Roman home during the time of the Republic.  The fall of the Republic marked a change in villas as they become fortified farming compounds rather than luxury homes.  The villa returned to its original purpose throughout the Middle Ages and slowly evolved into the upper class country homes we know today. 

Villas are common throughout Italy and France in modern times, having different architecture and masonry.  Rome, Toulouse, and St Tropez villas act as examples for the evolution of villas, and their different styles.