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3 unusual facts about Atalante


L'Atalante

Vigo hired his frequent collaborators: cinematographer Boris Kaufman and composer Maurice Jaubert, as well as art director Francis Jourdain, who was an old friend of his father.

Musician Steve Adey wrote a song called 'Dita Parlo' on his 2012 studio album The Tower of Silence.

Ubertino Pallavicini

During Ubertino's reign, much of the Euboea was lost to the Greeks and pirates in the Atalante prevented food supplies from reaching his people and castles.


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Battle of Fuzhou

Atalante was hunting down pirate ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.

Bugatti Type 57

In 2008 the Bugatti Type 57S with chassis number 57502 built in 1937 with the Atalante coachwork for Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe was discovered in a private garage in Newcastle upon Tyne, having been stored untouched for 48 years and known about only by a select few people.

The name Atalante was derived from a heroine of Greek mythology, Atalanta.


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