The most luxurious mansions in the world
By Martin Morin
of Espresso
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The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island (United States)
The Vanderbilt family, who made their fortune in steamships and trains, had this 70-room residence built to replace an earlier home that had been destroyed in a fire. The Italian Renaissance architecture brings to mind palaces found in Genoa and Turin.
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