It is currently the seat of The Strickland Foundation, and also the home of Robert Hornyold-Strickland and his family for his lifetime.

Whilst setting up The Strickland Foundation "for herself and her heirs in perpetuity" Mabel Strickland also left a clause that the seat of her Foundation could relocate to any other place in Malta.

Villa Parisio is believed to have been built sometime in the 16th century as the summer residence of the Muscati family.

Mabel set up the Times of Malta with her father Lord Strickland in 1935.

[4] The villa has its own gardens, which contain a number of orange[5] and olive trees.