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3 unusual facts about Cattolica


Barbara Baraldi

For her short novel Una storia da rubare she won the Premio Gran Giallo Città di Cattolica.

Francesco Bracotti

Bracotti was 4 years old when he tasted the asphalt the first time, on the go-kart circuit of Cattolica.

Megaville

Megaville was nominated for the title of "best film" at the international Mystfest special interest festival in Cattolica, Italy, in 1991 (although it lost to a Spanish language film, Amantes).


Cattolica Airfield

Cattolica Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, which was located in the vicinity of Cattolica (Provincia di Rimini,Emilia-Romagna); about 230 km north-northeast of Rome.

Cloisters of Sant'Ambrogio

When it became the seat of Cattolica, Father Gemelli entrusted the restoration Giovanni Muzio (who also designed the Triennale di Milano), who worked for about twenty years, from 1928 to late forties, also passing through the destruction caused by the bombing of 'August 1943 and the subsequent reconstruction.

David S. Wall

He completed a partnership with Transcrime (Università Cattolica del sacro Cuore of Milan and the University of Trento) and the CNRS, (Sorbonne, Paris) looking at "Public and Private Partnerships for Reducing Counterfeiting of Fashion Apparels and Accessories" as part of the EU Aegis Programme Framework 6.

Luis Martín

Given the circumstances (The loss of the Papal States was not yet accepted and the Pope was considering himself a 'Prisoner in the Vatican') Martin felt the need of giving them unsparing support, whatever initiatives they took, especially through the journal Civiltà Cattolica).

Time Loves a Hero

The album cover depicts the Cattolica di Stilo which is a church in Italy, but the background is the town of San Miguel de Allende Mexico and the statue in front of the Cattolica di Stilo is in San Miguel de Allende.

University Carlo Cattaneo

It is one of the three Italian Universities (together with SDA Bocconi and Universita Cattolica) part of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness's network teaching Michael Porter's Microeconomics of Competitiveness graduate class.


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