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16 unusual facts about Asolo


Abbas Gharib

competition for the transformation of the monumental furnaces of Asolo, Italy with the construction of the new administrative, production, and exhibition center of ceramic arts, third prize;

Bruno Giuranna

From 1983 to 1992 Bruno Giuranna was Artistic Director of the Padova Chamber Orchestra and of the International Chamber Music Festival in Asolo, Italy, where he now lives.

Castelcucco

Castelcucco borders the following municipalities: Asolo, Cavaso del Tomba, Monfumo, Paderno del Grappa, Possagno.

Eleonora Duse

She is buried in Asolo – where she had made her home for the last four years of her life – at the cemetery of Sant' Anna.

Francesco Sartorelli

Francesco Sartorelli came from a well-to-do family – his father was a solicitor at Asolo – and after secondary school he enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine in Padua, though he abandoned his studies around 1875 to attend the Milan Conservatory.

Gherardo III da Camino

Gherardo's first move was to attack the Castelli's castles of Asolo, Cornuda and Monleopardo, and to destroy their city residence by treason.

Giacomo Monico

He then taught at local seminary before being named parish pastor in Asolo.

Giuseppe Bernardi

Giuseppe Bernardi (Pagnano, 24 March 1694 – Venice, 22 February 1773), also called Torretto, was a prominent mid-eighteenth-century Italian sculptor.

Gli Asolani

They concern a dialogue on love that is supposed to have happened at Asolo near the court of Caterina Cornaro.

Hugh Honour

Living in Asolo near Venice, Honour and Fleming began a productive writing partnership.

Josef Neruda

Wilma Neruda was a gifted violinist and a group of her supporters including Prince of Wales, later King Eduard VII, donated her a palazzo in Asolo, near Venice.

Matteo Grassotto

Matteo Grassotto (born 14 March 1980 in Asolo, Veneto) is an Italian racing driver.

Music of Veneto

The town of Asolo in the province has an annual chamber music festival.

Paderno del Grappa

The municipality of Paderno del Grappa is approximately 45 miles north of Venice, and in close to larger towns, Asolo and Bassano del Grappa, also in the Treviso province.

Renato Piccolotto

Renato Piccolotto is an internationally renowned Italian Chef, was born in Asolo (Province of Treviso) in 1954 and is the Executive Chef of the Hotel Cipriani in Venice where he started working in 1983.

Robert I. Levy

Robert I. Levy (b 1924, d. 29 August 2003, Asolo, Veneto, Italy) was an American psychiatrist and anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Tahiti and Nepal and on the cross-cultural study of emotions.