One could easily mistake this Mediterranean villa for a grand property set along the Italian Riviera: Sea air, towering cypress and a driveway lined with olive trees.
Yet the location is not coastal Liguria but Montecito, an affluent community in Southern California known as the American Riviera. Enjoying panoramic vistas of the ocean and sheltering mountains, the nearly 22-acre estate is surrounded by colorful formal gardens that give way to an avocado orchard.
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