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unusual facts about Caraffa, Alessandria



1957–58 Alessandria U.S. season

Back in Serie A after 9 years, Alessandria U.S. built a competitive team, comprehensive of Italy defender Giacomazzi, talented Tagnin and Switzerland forward Vonlanthen.

Alberto Morán

Alberto Morán (born Remo Andrea Domenico Recagno, Strevi, Alessandria, Italy, 15 March 1922 - Buenos Aires, 16 August 1997) was an Argentine tango musician.

Alessandria Challenger

It is held annually at the Centro Sportivo Comunale "I. Barberis" in Alessandria, Italy, since 2008.

Battle of Bicocca

By January, the French had lost Alessandria, Pavia, and Como; and Francesco II Sforza, bringing further German reinforcements, had slipped past a Venetian force at Bergamo to join Colonna in Milan.

Boniface II, Marquess of Montferrat

However, Boniface's main sights were set not on the Piedmont but on nearby Alessandria: from 1227, when he strengthened an alliance with Asti, he continued until his death to fight the Alessandrini.

Casaleggio

Casaleggio Boiro, Italian municipality of the province of Alessandria

Costantino Sereno

Among other fresco works are those for the Palazzo Carignano in Turin; the Duomo of Casale Monferrato (1860-1861); the Sanctuary della Consolata, Church of San Secondo, and of Maria Ausiliatrice in Turin; Angels and the Assumption of the Virgin (1865) for the parish church of Fubine, Alessandria.

Cuccaro

Cuccaro Monferrato, Italian municipality of the province of Alessandria

Domenico Calcagno

Calcagno was born in Tramontana (Archdiocese of Genoa, the province of Alessandria) in 1943.

Faà di Bruno

Faà di Bruno is the name of an Italian noble family based in the areas of Asti, Casale, and Alessandria, which provided the Counts (later Marquises) of Bruno.

Fabrizio Palenzona

From 1985 to 1995 he was mayor of Tortona, then in the same year he became part of the provincial council of Alessandria.

Forti

Forti was founded by Italian businessmen Guido Forti, a former driver, and Paolo Guerci, an engineer, in the late 1970s and was based in Alessandria in northern Italy.

Giovanni Stefano Menochio

He was successively superior of Cremona, Milan, and Genoa, rector of the Roman College, provincial of the provinces of Milan and Rome, assistant of Italy, and admonitor to the Fathers-General Caraffa and Piccolomini.

Giuseppe Bernardo Lecchi

Originally from a Piedmontese village near Alessandria, Lecchi showed great talent for woodworking at a young age.

Ignazio Bertola

He made works of civil and military engineering in Alessandria and in Fenestrelle and built the so-called "road of the guns", a trail between the valleys Varaita and Maira.

Insubria

"Insubria" thus denoted the core of the then extensive Duchy of Milan, as attested in the writings of Benzo d'Alessandria, Giovanni Simonetta, Thomas Coryat, Bernardino Corio and Andrea Alciato.

Juan Zanelli

In a Bugatti he won the 1929 and 1930 Bugatti GP at Le Mans, finished 8th in Alessandria in 1929 and 2nd in 1930, 2nd at the 1929 Marne GP and 3rd at the 1930 French GP at Pau.

Love's Sacrifice

Phillippo Caraffa, Duke of Pavia, has accidentally caught sight of a beautiful young woman named Bianca, the daughter of a Milanese gentleman, while he was hunting.

Massacre of Italians at Aigues-Mortes

The identities of seven of them are known: Carlo Tasso from Alessandria, Vittorio Caffaro from Pinerolo, Bartolomeo Calori from Turin, Giuseppe Merlo from Centallo, Lorenzo Rolando from Altare, Paolo Zanetti from Nese and Giovanni Bonetto.

Montecastello

Montecastello borders the following municipalities: Alessandria, Bassignana, Pecetto di Valenza, Pietra Marazzi, Piovera, and Rivarone.

Montechiaro

Montechiaro d'Acqui - a town and comune in the Province of Alessandria, Italy

Morano

Morano sul Po, a place in the north-western Italian province of Alessandria

Ozzano

Ozzano Monferrato, a village and municipality in the Province of Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy

Palazzo Valentini

Over the same years the district on the ruins of the imperial fora was subjected to a general development of the land and to a systematic urbanisation, with the creation of the "quartiere Alessandrino" in the cardinal's honour (he was nicknamed "cardinale alessandrino" after his origins in a village in the province of Alessandria).

Paulusheim

Paulusheim is rooted in a boarding school of the small Italian community of Masio near Alessandria.

Pietro Ayres

He also painted a Hagar in Desert and altarpieces for churches in Turin, Savigliano, Racconigi, and Alessandria.

Piffero

It is used to play music in the tradition of the quattro province, an area of mountains and valleys in the north-west Italian Apennines which includes parts of the four provinces of Alessandria, Genoa, Piacenza and Pavia.

Prospero Zannichelli

Prospero Zannichelli (1698-1772) was a painter from Reggio Emilia, Italy, who was active in Reggio Emilia, Alessandria, Piacenza, and Turin.

Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco

On August 5, 1872 in Mornese, Alessandria, Italy, the first Daughters of Mary Help of Christians gathered with Don Bosco and Msgr.

Sergio Sartorelli

Sergio Sartorelli (Alessandria, 7 May 1928 - Torino, 28 November 2009) was an Italian automotive designer and engineer who worked for Carrozzeria Ghia and FIAT.

Stephen Ferrando

Ferrando was ordained a priest on March 18, 1923 at the Salesian Institute of Borgo San Martino, Alessandria, Italy.

Taddeo Carlone

Marble statue of San Antonio Abato in the oratory of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria in Alassio

Tagliolo Monferrato

The municipality of Tagliolo Monferrato contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Cherli, Grossi, Varo, Pessino, Caraffa, and Mongiardino.

U.S. Alessandria Calcio 1912

Unione Sportiva Alessandria Calcio 1912 is the professional Italian football club based in Alessandria, Piedmont.

Valenza

Overshadowed by the power of the nearby Alessandria, it attracted the attentions of Galeazzo I Visconti, duke of Milan, but his plot to capture the city failed.

Villanova Monferrato

Located in the plain to the left of the Po, it the most northerly comune in the province, and borders on the comuni of Caresana, Motta de' Conti, Rive, and Stroppiana in the Vercelli, as well as those of Balzola and Casale Monferrato in the Province of Alessandria.

William VII, Marquess of Montferrat

Having become the military leader of various Lombard cities, including Pavia, Vercelli, Alessandria, Tortona, Genoa, Turin, Asti, Alba, Novara, Brescia, Cremona, and Lodi, he was also elected head of the anti-Angevin coalition.


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