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Amid Poverty, a Renaissance Villa in the West Bank
[AP] Karin Laub - Palestinian tycoon Munir Masri, 72, has built a honey-colored Palladian mansion on a West Bank mountaintop that is visible for miles. The exact copy of a famous 16th-century villa known as "La Rotonda," with columns on four sides, sits on a 100-acre estate with sculpted gardens. The grounds feature a goldfish pond, a swimming pool, an amphitheater, and a garden pavilion of glass-and-iron - a gift from Napoleon III to a mistress.