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Villa Mandra is like an unfinished poem, carved by rocks and light and shadow together. It is not an abrupt architectural declaration, but the most elegant interpretation of the soul of the Mediterranean.

Turning the last corner, the towering ancient trees suddenly split to both sides, as if the curtain of a stage slowly rose - the black-and-white Vandenbussche villa thus quietly appeared before me.

This building, hidden in the suburbs of Durle, Belgium, is like a sleeping giant beast - the two staggered stone walls at the entrance are like its shadows, leading visitors into a carefully designed visual delay.