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7 unusual facts about Biella


2012 Gran Piemonte

It was held on 27 September 2012, over a distance of 188 km, starting in Fossano and ending in Biella.

Camillo Olivetti

Camillo Olivetti (August 1868 in Ivrea, Piedmont, Italy– December 1943 in Biella, Italy) was an Italian electrical engineer and founder of Olivetti & Co., SpA., the Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.

Fendry Ekel

In 1999 Fendry Ekel was an Artist in Residence at Cittadellarte, Fondazione Pistoletto in Biella, Italy.

Giacomo Debenedetti

Giacomo Debenedetti (1901–1967) was born in a Jewish family in Biella region of Piemonte Italy.

Mountain Wilderness

Mountain Wilderness was founded in 1987 in Biella, Italy during an international conference convened by Ludovico Sella, scion of a prominent piedmontese family of financiers, statesmen and mountaineers, among which Quintino Sella, the 19th century founder of the Italian Alpine Club.

Swimmer One

In 2006, Swimmer One collaborated with Edinburgh based theatre group Highway Diner on a show entitled We Just Make Music For Ourselves which was performed in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Biella, Italy.

Yun-Fei Ji

"Biella Prize for Engraving 2006, Art in the Age of Anxiety", curated by Jeremy Lewison, Museo del Territorio di Biella, Biella, Italy (March 18 – June 4, 2006) (catalogue).


2010 Zagreb Open – Doubles

Peter Luczak and Alessandro Motti were the defending champions, but Luczak chose not to compete this year and Motti chose to compete in Biella instead.

Chiavazza

It is crossed by the Via Milano, which connects Biella to Vigliano Biellese.

Fra Dolcino

It ended in the mountains in Sesia Valley and in the Biella area, in Piemonte, Italy, on 23 March 1307 when many crusaders (multi crucesignati) finally conquered the fortification built on the mount Rubello by the Dulcinians.

Ippazio Antonio Bortone

He was also admitted into various orders of knight hood, including named to the Order of the Crown of Italy by King Vittorio Emanuele III, and to the Order of Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro, by King Umberto I following the inauguration of his monument to Quintino Sella in Biella (won commission by competition).

Manolo Valdés

Valdés has received various awards, including the Lissone and Biella in Milan in 1965; the silver medal in the second International Prints Biennial in Tokyo; an award from the Bridgestone Art Museum in Lisbon; the Alfons Roig Award in Valencia; the National Award for the Fine Arts in Spain; a medal from the biennial International Festival of the Plastic Arts in Baghdad; and in 1993 the Medal of the Order of Andrés Bello in Venezuela.

Occhieppo Inferiore

Occhieppo Inferiore borders the following municipalities: Biella, Camburzano, Mongrando, Occhieppo Superiore, Ponderano.

Pezzata Rossa d'Oropa

The Pezzata Rossa d'Oropa is a cattle breed from the provinces of Vercelli and Biella in the Piedmont region of Italy.

Pietro Loro Piana

Son of Giacomo Loro Piana and Clementina Zignone, still young he moved with his parents to Valsesia from the native Trivero; here Loro Piana brought the Biella tradition of making wool that his family cultivated for decades.

Vigliano Biellese

Vigliano Biellese borders the following municipalities: Biella, Candelo, Cerreto Castello, Cossato, Ronco Biellese, Valdengo.


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