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4 unusual facts about Castello


Fondazione Querini Stampalia

Located just South of the Church of Santa Maria Formosa in the sestiere Castello, the Foundation is open to the public for academic research.

Marta Arce Payno

The first IPC European Judo Championships Arce competed in were the ones hosted in Castelló where she picked up a gold medal.

San Francesco della Vigna

San Francesco della Vigna is a Roman Catholic church in the Sestiere of Castello in Venice, northern Italy.

San Martino, Venice

San Martino di Venezia is a church in the sestiere of Castello of Venice.


Agliè

Agliè's main attraction is its Castello Ducale, one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy, listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list.

Carraresi

Coming from Carrara Santo Stefano, near Padua, the family had their origin in a certain Gamberto/Gumberto, of Lombard origin, to judge from his name and that of his son Luitolfo, founder of the abbey of Carrara in 1027; Gumberto was signore of castrum Carrariae, the Castello of Carrara San Giorgio.

Castello d'Agogna

Castello d'Agogna borders the following municipalities: Ceretto Lomellina, Mortara, Olevano di Lomellina, Sant'Angelo Lomellina, Zeme.

Castello d'Argile

Castello d'Argile borders the following municipalities: Argelato, Cento, Pieve di Cento, Sala Bolognese, San Giorgio di Piano, San Giovanni in Persiceto, San Pietro in Casale.

Castello di Compiano

Castello di Compiano is a castle in on the top of Compiano's hill, in the province of Parma, northern Italy.

Cerreto Castello

Cerreto Castello borders the following municipalities: Cossato, Quaregna, Valdengo, Vigliano Biellese.

Daniel DiNardo

Upon his return to the United States in 1991, he was named Assistant Secretary for Education for the Pittsburgh diocese and concurrently served as co-pastor with Paul J. Bradley of Madonna del Castello Church in Swissvale.

Emilio Giuseppe Dossena

He attended the Brera Academy (Milan) and the Scuola del Castello (Milan), where he formed strong friendships with Aligi Sassu, Ernesto Treccani, Guttuso, Domenico Cantatore and Umberto Lilloni.

Farneta

Located between the two hamlets of Gusciola (c. 2 km distant) and Romanoro (c. 7 km), the town in subdivided in four divisions: I Boschi, Il Monte, Il Castello and La Chiesa that since the Middle Ages battle themselves in the so-called "district games".

Francesco Mancini-Ardizzone

In 1887 at Venice, he exhibited: Da Vietri ad Amalfi; Pioggia; Pattuglia; Il castello d'Arci.

Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks

Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (originally Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette) is a 1974 Italian horror film directed by Dick Randall that is Loosely based on the Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein.

Genova Piazza Principe railway station

Around the station are the termini of several bus lines of the Genoa public transport undertaking (Azienda Mobilità e Trasporti, AMT), the Ferrovia Principe-Granarolo cog railway and the Ascensore Castello d'Albertis-Montegalletto lift and has an hourly bus connection with the airport via the Christopher Columbus Volabus service.

Girolamo Rainaldi

For Francesco d’Este, who, with the loss of the Este seat of Ferrara to the Papal States, concentrated his patronage in his Duchy of Modena, Rainaldi contributed to the construction of the Ducal Palace to supplant the ancient castello, and was in particular charged with the layout and elaborate hydraulics of its gardens, with giochi di acque and a theater clipped in green hedges, 1631-34 (Roganti).

Il Castello di Atlante

Il Castello di Atlante ("Atlas' Castle") is an Italian progressive rock band based in Vercelli.

Jack Reiter

He joined up with a group of British officers who had escaped from Castello di Vincigliata prison PG 12 camp during the Italian Armistice in September 1943.

Jacopo da Leona

Born as Jacopo del Tancredo in the village of Levane, Arezzo, he took his surname from the Castle of Leona (Castello di Leona), on which his village was dependent.

Joseph Castello

Joseph Castello (or Joseph Castilho) (b. ca. 1746, Leghorn, Italy) was an Italian Jewish physician, son of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Castello.

Liyana Jasmay

She then made her first silver-screen role in a highly promoted movie Castello, where she starred alongside Malaysian award-winning actor Rosyam Nor.

Los Jaigüey

Los Jaigüey is a band formed by Poncho Figueroa (Bassist founder of the seminal Mexican band Santa Sabina) along with brothers Gustavo Jacob (Thelmo Castelló, La Escalera de Jacob) and Ricardo Jacob (Thelmo Castelló, La Escalera de Jacob and collaborator of the prestigious Proceso magazine) who together form a musical outcome.

Luis Castello Pantoja

Luis Castelló Pantoja (Guadalcanal, Seville, 1881 - Ibid., September 27, 1962), was a Spanish military Infantry General associated with the Spanish Civil War.

Lupo family

Ambrose, son of Baptist from "Castello maiori" and "Busto in Normandy, in the republic of Malan", arrived from Venice in November 1540.

Malpaga Castle

The Malpaga Castle (Italian: Castello di Malpaga) is a castle in the communal territory of Cavernago, a village in the province of Bergamo, northern Italy.

Olga Villi

A few years later her employer hired her as a model, a profession in which she was almost immediately appreciated by the audience; noted by Macario, she was hired by him in 1942 for the rivista-operetta Il grillo al castello, where she had to

Pascal Olivier Count de Negroni

Negroni was born in the Castle of San Colombano, also known as the Castello di San Colombano in Rogliano a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica.

Rachel Vetter Huang

She has been a guest artist at the University of California, Davis, San Francisco State University, New Mexico State University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and was an American representative at the Respighi Festival in Citta de Castello, Italy, the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, and the Arts College, Xiamen University, People's Republic of China.

Residenza Il Castello

Il Castello (Italian term of castle) of Bardine di San Terenzo is located in the Bardine's Valley, in the city of Fivizzano, between the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines and the Apuan Alps, not far from the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Placed over the hills of Lunigiana, the Castello brings back to the atmosphere of ancient times.

Tabula clesiana

It is actually conserved at the Castello del Buonconsiglio Museum in Trento.

Vogogna

The Visconti castle, in via Castello, was built in 1344 for the bishop of Novara, Giovanni Visconti, and extended in 1449.


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