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2 unusual facts about Calvi


Calvi-class submarine

:For other Italian submarines named Enrico Tazzoli, see Italian submarine Enrico Tazzoli.

Vladimir Raitz

On holiday in Calvi on Corsica in 1949, he was asked by a socialite with local connections, Nicholas Steinheid, to encourage British the following year.


Alessandro Calvi

Alessandro Calvi (born February 1, 1983 in Voghera) is a freestyle swimmer from Italy, who was a member of team that won the silver medal in the men's 4×100 metres freestyle relay at the 2007 World Championships.

Arrigo della Rocca

But Arrigo had Franceschino assassinated and rapidly conquered the rest of the island except the two Genoese fortresses of Bonifacio and Calvi.

Banda della Magliana

In 1997, Italian prosecutors in Rome implicated a member of the Sicilian Mafia, Giuseppe Calò, in Calvi's murder, along with Flavio Carboni, a Sardinian businessman with wide ranging interests.

Bernd Brinkmann

Calvi, nicknamed "God's banker", was found hanged in London beneath Blackfriars Bridge in 1982 following the scandal concerning the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano and the involvement of the Vatican Bank.

In 2002, at the request of Carlo Calvi, Brinkmann researched the circumstances of the death of Roberto Calvi.

Giovanni Battista Calvi

Calvi was the first engineer to provide comprehensive reports on the status of the defensive projects of Spain and the Spanish North-African possessions.

Italian irredentism in Corsica

Colonel Cristofini Pietro (or Petru Simon Cristofini) was born in Calenzana (near Calvi, Corsica) on 26 May 1903 and in 1939 became a captain of the 3rd Algerian Fusiliers regiment.

John Hoye

OTC also won two major awards for new works - The LWT Plays on Stage Award in 1988 for The Harlot’s curse written by Rodney Archer and Powell Jones; and the Guinness/Royal National Theatre Festival Award for Roberto Calvi is Alive and Well written by Roy Smiles.

Marisa Allasio

She left her acting career in 1958, year of her marriage with Count Pier Francesco Calvi di Bergolo (born 2 December 1933, Turin), son of Princess Iolanda di Savoia, first-born of Vittorio Emanuele III and Elena del Montenegro.

Samir Bertin d'Avesnes

Samir Bertin d'Avesnes (born April 15, 1986 in Moroni) is a Comorian footballer, who is currently playing for FC Aregno-Calvi.

Zilia

The village itself is situated at an altitude of 278m at the foot of the Monte Grosso (1 938 m) 7 km north-east of Calvi, the capital.


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