Bendigo mansion Fortuna Villa: ”Part of our national story.” Photo: Daryl Pinder
IT WAS the biggest house in Australia, an opulent 19th century mansion eccentrically decorated by a man with unbridled wealth and questionable taste.
Now it’s on the market for the first time in more than 70 years.
Fortuna Villa, built by gold baron George Lansell in Bendigo, will be sold by the Defence Department after months of bickering between state and federal g… (View original article)