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10 unusual facts about Brindisi


Fiat G.91Y

These aircraft served with 1° Gruppo/8° Stormo (Cervia-S.Giorgio) from 1970, and later, from 1974, they served with the 13° Gruppo/32° Stormo (Brindisi).

George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland

He was President of the Mont Cenis Railway Company which built the first Fell railway and operated it from 1868-1871 to provide a temporary route over the Alps for rail passengers from Calais to Brindisi until the completion of the Fréjus Rail Tunnel.

Giustino Durano

Giustino Durano (May 5, 1923 in Brindisi, Italy - February 18, 2002 in Bologna, Italy) was a long lasting movie actor who is best known for his work as Eliseo Orefice in the 1997 film, Life Is Beautiful.

Gulf of Patras

-- This is unintelligible: The length of the port was 2 km long, it is nearly 5 km long of the southern part is yet to be opened and is not completed.--> It serves ferries to Ancona and Brindisi in Italy along with Kefallonia.

Koolhoven F.K.57

After stops at Brindisi and Baghdad, they reached Karachi on the 24 September, having covered 7,377 km (4,585 mi) .

Laboe Naval Memorial

The Monument to Italian Sailors in Brindisi, Italy (begun in 1932, dedicated in 1933) bears a resemblance to the Laboe tower.

Nadia Cavalera

She worked in Brindisi for 12 years and since 1988, she has lived and worked as a teacher in Modena.

Nuova Camorra Organizzata

The local criminals were involved only during particularly difficult operations, and then contacts were established directly with single individuals or small groups active for some time in smuggling which for strategic reasons was concentrated mainly in the Brindisi area.

Shi Yan Fan

Born in Brindisi, South Italy, Franco Testini began his study of martial arts at the age of 7.

The Good Soldier

Edward receives a telegram from Nancy that reads, “Safe Brindisi. Having a rattling good time. Nancy.”


2002 Molise earthquake

It lasted for 60 seconds and could be felt distinctly in the centre of Molise, in the Capitanata, the Province of Chieti, and could be perceived in the Marche, Bari, Benevento, Matera, Brindisi, Rome, Naples, Potenza, Salerno, Taranto and Pescara.

58th Infantry Division Legnano

After allied forces had landed on the Italian peninsula and an armistice between Italy and the Allies had been signed, the division stayed loyal to the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III, who fled with the royal court from Rome to Brindisi.

Anthony Brindisi

On September 13, 2011 Brindisi, an attorney who served on the Utica School Board was elected during a special election to the New York State Assembly, succeeding long time Assemblywoman RoAnn Destito after her popularity waned for influence peddling and conflicts-of-interest.

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

On her travels around the world, Bly went through England, France (where she met Jules Verne in Amiens), Brindisi, the Suez Canal, Colombo (Ceylon), the Straits Settlements of Penang and Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan.

Brindisi railway station

On 30 December 1886, Brindisi became a junction station, when the final section of the Taranto–Brindisi railway was opened, between Mesagne and Brindisi.

Cellino

Cellino San Marco, an Italian municipality of the Province of Brindisi, Apulia

HSC Speedrunner IV

Originally it was planned that she would be set in traffic between Brindisi, Italy and Çeşme, Turkey.

Igoumenitsa

The Patras, Greece to Brindisi, Italy car–ferry ships of the Hellenic Mediterranean Lines (HML) stop at Igoumenitsa, before crossing the Adriatic Sea and vice versa, as well as the ships of Superfast Ferries, ANEK Lines and several other shipping companies, before going to Ancona, Bari or Venice in Italy, and vice versa.

Illyrian coinage

The cities which minted these early mints were Valesio, Brindisi, Nardò, Oria, Ugento, Grax and Samadi.

Irsina

The village is one hour from Bari Airport (Ryanair), and hour and a half from Brindisi airport, (also Ryanair).

Italian Marines

San Marco Regiment, marines of the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) based in Brindisi.

New Basket Brindisi

Then in 1980 another with Bartolini Brindisi, team, where they played for the Americans Otis Howard, Rich Yonakor, Cliff Pondexter and coach Rudy D'Amico.

One Hundred Men and a Girl

The concert is a rousing success for everyone, especially when Patsy, called upon to make a speech, instead agrees to sing the "Brindisi" (Drinking Song) from Verdi's opera La traviata.

Operation Most III

A Dakota of No. 267 Squadron RAF flew from Brindisi, and landed at an Armia Krajowa outpost codenamed Motyl (butterfly), which was in a village near Jadowniki Mokre.

S.S.D. Città di Brindisi

Brindisi was founded in 1912 as F.B. Brindisi 1912 and refounded in 2011 by Miguel Ángel Brindisi with the current name.

Terra di Otranto

During the twentieth century, the historical territory of the province will be dismembered with the creation in 1923, the Province of the Ionian and in 1927, the Province of Brindisi (which were common two aggregates, Fasano, Cisternino, formerly belonging to Bari).