VILLA FRANCA, a town of Austrian Italy, in the delegation and 9 miles S.W. of Verona, on the Tartaro. It has an ancient and strong castle, and important manufactures of silk. Villafranca is remarkable for the personal interview which took place here between the emperors of France and Austria, 11th July 1859, and the peace in consequence concluded, by which Lombardy was given to Sardinia. Pop. 7000.