The villa is situated on the northern slopes of the Plavinac Hill, overseeing the Danube from its right bank, and the Banat lowlands across the river.

Additionally, Prince Mihailo planted 2,000 vines of the French varieties and, as an avid equestrian, arranged the horse tracks around the house.

The entire house is set on the high stone foundation with a cellar which was entered from the front, between two forks of the staircase.

[2] In 1865 Prince Mihailo ordered for the materials used for the construction of his summerhouse to be transferred to Belgrade, so that First Town Hospital can be built.

It is not clear whether this was concerning the leftovers of the materials remaining after the construction was finished, or that he planned to build a larger edifice but stopped it at this point.

When Queen Natalie wanted to entertain a large number of guests in 1882, it had to be rescheduled as the building turned out to be "cracked a lot and prone to collapse".

Milan introduced the wealth and servants, and the very first courts for tennis and cricket in Serbia were built next to the villa.

Among the visitors in this and later periods were poets and writers Milan Rakić, Laza Kostić, Branislav Nušić, Stevan Sremac, Simo Matavulj and Milovan Glišić, and painter Paja Jovanović.

Natalie was banished from Serbia so Milan, who abdicated in the meantime, remained the owner of the estate but transferred it to his only child, still minor King Alexander.

Ilkić added two side avant-corps and decorated the edifice with ornaments in the style of the Swiss villas.

Natalie was personally involved in the adaptation, style, setting, park arrangements and interiors, to the most minute detail.

Austrian traveler Felix Philipp Kanitz, who visited the venue and described it as a "Swiss villa", depicted Natalie as a "tall lady, which had both the love of and the sense for comfortable".

Later in 1897, opposing his son's relationship with her widowed lady in waiting Draga Mašin, Natalie left Serbia for good.

The villa also continued to be used for public and state affairs so some of the constitutions were declared here and it was often a meeting place of the government ministers.

King often used villa for his official businesses - holding ministerial sessions, signing appointments and royal decrees, and, in time, receiving foreign envoys.

Delegation from the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II was the first recorded diplomatic visit to the villa.

[1][2][3][4][5] By the late 1950s there were concerns regarding the bad shape of the object and threat of the mass wasting as it is located on the terrain prone to it.

This idea was abandoned and instead architect Bogdan Bogdanović and painters Predrag Milosavljević and Miodrag B. Protić were to inspect the building.

They reported that the condition of the object is shameful, describing cracked walls, sagging roofs, parapets made of reeds, etc.

The ground floor was enhanced with the locally quarried brown stones while the plateau in front of the entrance was paved with the granite slabs.

The furniture and artifacts for the interior of the villa were purchased on auctions all over Europe or were bought off from the old Belgrade families (Rajačić, Drobnjak, Kumanudi, Rakić).

In front of the entrance, the fountain was placed with the bronze sculpture Leda and the Swan, work of painter Olja Ivanjicki.

It is a ground floor object with 5 French windows with wooden lids on each longer wall and with a square, polygonal spike-like pyramid on top.

[6] During the 2000s the venue was used as a scenery for following movies and series: The End of Obrenović Dynasty (1995), The Robbery of the Third Reich (2004), On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco (2004), The Fourth Man (2007), The Last Audience (2008).

A meeting of 20 ambassadors with Vučić was held in 2015, while both the Chinese president Xi Jinping and Slovenian prime minister Miro Cerar had official bunket in the villa in 2016.