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unusual facts about Cagliari


Marek Kalbus

Worldwide renowned stages, where Marek Kalbus has been heard recently, are Teatro Massimo (Palermo), Teatro Carlo Felice (Genoa), Teatro Dal Verme (Milano), Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Oper Bonn, Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile, Konzerthaus Berlin and Berliner Philharmonie, International Art Centre De Singel (Antwerp), Beethoven Hall Bonn, the International Al Bustan Music Festival Beirut and Czech Philharmonic.


Alessandro Martini

During this early period the Distilleria Nazionale di Spirito di Vino kept on growing and a several subsidiaries were created in Genoa, Cagliari and Narbonne thanks to the protection of the King of Piedmont.

Aloysius Varsi

He was educated at St. Teresa's College in Cagliari, and he went to Turin, Toulouse and Vals for advanced training in literature and philosophy.

Arbatax

The town is connected to Lanusei and Cagliari with a narrow gauge railway, today used for turistic purposes, owned by Ferrovie della Sardegna.

Barisone II of Torres

Together and with Pisan support, the brothers invaded Cagliari in March 1164, reconquering the city, and then Arborea in April, where they holed up Barisone in his castle of Cabras.

Betti reaction

Betti worked at many universities in Italy, including Florence, Cagliari, Siena, Genoa and Bologna, where he was the successor of Giacomo Ciamician.

Constantine II of Cagliari

Constantine patronised the monasteries founded by monks from Saint-Victor in Marseille, who dominated religious life in Cagliari at the turn of the twelfth century.

Fiat A.22

R powered more conventional, airline, flights in a Savoia-Marchetti S.66 three engine flying boat operated by Ala Littoria on the Rome-Cagliari-Tripoli and Rome-Athens-Alexandria routes.

History of Cagliari

The passage of the De Bello Gildonico of Claudian who describes it in the fourth century AD, says that Cagliari was founded by the powerful Tyre, a city of the Lebanon, which in early centuries of the first millennium BC experienced the most prosperous period as a commercial power between East and West Mediterranean, and that also founded the city of Carthage.

History of the Jews in Sardinia

There were Jewish communities in Oristano, Lula, Gallura, Nora, Sinai (possibly founded by Jews), Canahim, Sulcis, Tharros, Alghero, Colmedia, and Cagliari.

Irisbus Europolis

Cities whose transport companies use the Europolis include Rome, Reggio Calabria, Cagliari and Terni in Italy, Lyon in France and Thessaloniki (22 pieces) in Greece.

Marianus II of Arborea

He was wounded and took refuge in San Leonardo di Siete Fuentes, where, according to some sources, he was poisoned in 1297 by the Pisans who wanted to extend their authority in Cagliari to the Argentiera of Cixerri.

Massimiliano Allegri

On 13 April 2010, Cagliari surprisingly removed Allegri from his managerial duties despite a solid 12th place with 40 points, and youth coach Giorgio Melis — with Gianluca Festa as his assistant — was appointed at his replacement.

Master of Castelsardo

His other works included the retablos in the church of St. Peter at Tuili (executed between 1489 and 1500), in the church of Santa Rosalia at Cagliari, the Trinity Retablo (like the previous one, originally commissioned for the Frasciscan convent at Tallano, in Corsica, now in the basilica of Saccargia).

Moestafa El Kabir

On 5 April 2011, Cagliari President Massimo Cellino announced that a deal had been made for the transfer of El Kabir to Cagliari for the 2011–12 Serie A season and had an option to him then for another three years to capture.

Niña

She was captured by a pirate corsair when leaving the port of Cagliari and brought to Cape Pula, Sardinia.

Nuoro

It is connected by train (FdS) to Macomer and by bus (ARST, Azienda Regionale Sarda Trasporti) to Cagliari, Sassari, Olbia, and to several minor centres in the province and the region.

Pascale di Cagliari

Pascale di Cagliari is also grown in southwest Sardinia in the Sulcis region and on the island of Carloforte where it plays a supporting role in the Carignan del Sulcis DOC.

Pilars

Juan Pilars (died 1521), a Spanish clergyman, appointed in 1514 as archbishop of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

Pontifical Faculty of Theology of Sardinia

With the Apostolic Constitution Nostrarum partem of 5 August 1927, Pope Pius XI founded in Cuglieri – along with the Pontifical Major Seminary accorded to the Society of Jesus – the two Faculties of Theology and Philosophy which were supposed to extend the activity already started in the Universities of Cagliari and Sassari.

Porto Torres

The port is connected by ferries with Genoa, Marseille, Toulon, Barcelona, Civitavecchia, Propriano, Expressway SS131/E25 to Sassari and Cagliari, and a national road to Santa Teresa Gallura (SS200).

Solanas

Solanas is a small village administrated by Sinnai, in the province of Cagliari.

Stagno di Cagliari

The Stagno di Santa Gilla or Stagno di Cagliari (literally ‘Pool of Cagliari’) is a coastal lagoon at the mouths of the rivers Cixerri and Mannu near Cagliari, on the Golfo degli Angeli in southern Sardinia, Italy.

Tharros

Most of the artifacts can be found in the Archaeological Museum at Cagliari, in the Antiquarium Arborense, the Archaeological Museum of the town of Cabras and in the British Museum, London.

Tiscali

Between 2007 and 2008, Tiscali briefly operated an IPTV service in Italy (available in the cities of Bologna, Cagliari, Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Rome, Turin and Trieste).

U.S. Arezzo

On November 2010 the club was acquired by a consortium of Rome-based entrepreneurs (including popular actor Luca Zingaretti) for a sum of €400,000; the new owners immediately made a number of changes, appointing former Cagliari player Maurizio Coppola as head coach and former Serie A star Abel Balbo as assistant coach and technical area coordinator.

U.S.D. Nuorese Calcio

Under Goveani, and under the captaincy of former Cagliari mainstay Gianluca Festa, Nuorese promptly won two promotions in a row, being crowned Eccellenza Sardinia champions in 2004–05 and Serie D – Girone B winners in 2005–06, thus returning to play in Serie C2 the following season.

Ubaldo I Visconti

In mid-January 1213, William of Cagliari led the forces of Massa, Pistoia, the anti-Visconti faction in Pisa, and the militia of Guido Guerra III to victory near Massa over the forces of Lucca supported by the Visconti under Ubaldo, and by the deposed Pisan podestà Goffredo Musto.


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