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unusual facts about Calasca-Castiglione



1899 in Italy

November 28 – Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, Italian aristocrat, better known as La Castiglione, who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France (born 1837)

A.S.D. Castiglione

Castiglione demonstrated that they were ready to climb up the Italian League, as the club won the Seconda Categoria title by one point over Roccalumera.

Associazione Sportiva Dilenttantistica Castiglione is an Italian association football club located in Castiglione di Sicilia, Sicily.The team's colors are white and orange.

Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri

She has excavated extensively in Italy, including major excavations at Osteria dell'Osa, Castiglione, Fidenae, as well as excavations at Frattesina di Fratta Polesine (Rovigo), and Specchia Artanisi di Ugento.

Antrona Schieranco

Antrona Schieranco borders the following municipalities: Bognanco, Calasca-Castiglione, Ceppo Morelli, Montescheno, Saas Almagell (Switzerland), Vanzone con San Carlo, Viganella, Zwischbergen (Switzerland).

Baldassare Castiglione

Castiglione answered both the Pope and Valdés in two famous letters from Burgos.

Castiglione wrote about his works and of those of other guests in letters to other princes, maintaining an activity very near to diplomacy, though in a literary form, as in his correspondence with his friend and kinsman, Ludovico da Canossa (later Bishop of Bayeux).

Castiglione della Pescaia

In the territory of Castiglione della Pescaia, the 1000-hectare Natural Reserve of Diaccia Botrona (with 18th-century Casa Rossa Ximenes) is a designated wetland area of international interest, according to the Ramsar Convention.

Diego Masi

During the elections of 1996 he was elected by the majoritarian system in the constituency of Castiglione, under the coalition of The Olive Tree as a member of the Dini List - Italian Renewal, which was merged with The Pact.

Duke Castiglione

Castiglione has landed a number of key breaking news interviews, including one with Joe Torre on the day he was rumored to be fired and the first one-on-one with Johnny Damon when he joined the New York Yankees.

Gasparo Molo

According to Kenner, it is not necessary to suppose that he gave up his connexion with the Florentine court at this time, because, in the following years, he struck medals for the court in Mantua, as well as coins for Guastalla and Castiglione, especially as he was again working in Florence in 1614 (certainly in 1615).

Giovanni Battista Castiglione

Castiglione was born at Gassino, near Torino, in the Piedmont, son of Captain Piero Castiglione, of Mantua; he served in the Army of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, at Landrecies & Boulogne.

Girolamo Conversi

Conversi rarely (if ever) set verse by living poets, preferring writers such as Petrarch, Pietro Bembo, Castiglione, and Luca Contile.

Mario Fucini

He would remain in the Italian air force after World War I, rising through squadron commands to head up the Castiglione Fighter School.

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (22 March 1837 – 28 November 1899), better known as La Castiglione, was born to an aristocratic family from La Spezia.


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