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unusual facts about Emilia Romagna



A.C. Formigine A.S.D.

Associazione Calcio Formigine Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica is an Italian football club based in Formigine, Emilia Romagna.

Capitán Pastene

Settlers arrived from the north Italian region of Emilia Romagna (Bologna and major cities such as Modena) and left a generation of Italo-Chilean that lasts to this day, which has contributed to enriching the local culture.

Mutoid Waste Company

In the early 1990s the Mutoids moved to Santarcangelo di Romagna, where they set up a scrap village called Mutonia and continued working, displaying and performing at squats and libertarian celebrations in the Emilia Romagna region.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cesena-Sarsina

The Italian Catholic Diocese of Cesena-Sarsina in Emilia Romagna was created on September 30, 1986, after the Diocese of Sarsina was united with the historic Diocese of Cesena as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Ravenna-Cervia.

Varzese-Ottonese-Tortonese

The Varzese-Ottonese-Tortonese is a breed of cattle from the Italian region of Lombardy and neighbouring mountainous areas in Emilia Romagna, Liguria and Piedmont.

Walk to Canossa

The term Walk to Canossa (German, Gang nach Canossa), sometimes called the Humiliation of Canossa (Italian, l'umiliazione di Canossa), refers to the trek of Henry IV of the Holy Roman Empire from Speyer to the fortress at Canossa in Emilia Romagna to obtain the revocation of the excommunication imposed on him by the Pope Gregory VII.


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A.S. Real Cesenatico

Associazione Sportiva Real Cesenatico (formerly Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Cesenatico Chimicart) is an Italian association football club located in Cesenatico, Emilia-Romagna.

A.S.D. Boca Pietri

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Boca Pietri is an Italian association football club from Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, but currently playing home games in Vignola, in the province of Modena.

A.S.D. Cervia 1920

Associazione Calcio Dilettante Cervia 1920 (formerly known also as Cervia Vodafone) is an Italian football club located in Cervia, Emilia-Romagna.

A.S.D. Mezzolara

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Mezzolara is an Italian association football club located in Mezzolara, a frazione of Budrio, Emilia-Romagna.

A.S.D. Riccione 1929

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Riccione 1929 is an Italian football club located in Riccione, Emilia-Romagna.

A.S.D. Verucchio

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Verucchio is an Italian association football club located in Verucchio, Emilia-Romagna.

A.S.D. Virtus Pavullese

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Virtus Pavullese is an Italian association football club located in Pavullo nel Frignano, Emilia-Romagna.

Agata

Sant'Agata Bolognese, an Italian commune in the province of Emilia Romagna

Aldrovandi

Aldrovandi is a family name of the Emilia-Romagna in Italy, and especially from Bologna.

Alessandra Giliani

Giliani is believed to have been born in 1307, in San Giovanni in Persiceto, in the Italian province of Emilia-Romagna.

Aliettite

It was first described in 1968 for an occurrence in Monte Chiaro, Albareto, Parma Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy and named for the Italian mineralogist Andrea Alietti (born 1923).

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.

Diocese of Sarsina

The Italian Catholic diocese of Sarsina was a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, seated in Sarsina, in the province of Forlì, which existed until 1986.

Elections in Veneto

Rovigo, the southernmost province, was influenced by nearby "red" Emilia-Romagna.

G.S. Bagnolese A.S.D.

Gruppo Sportivo Bagnolese Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica is an Italian association football club located in Bagnolo in Piano, Emilia-Romagna.

Granarolo dell'Emilia

Granarolo dell'Emilia (Granarôl in the Bolognese dialect) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 10 km northeast of Bologna.

Marola

Marola in the comune of Carpineti, in the province of Reggio Emilia, Emilia Romagna.

Mazzanti

The name Mazzanti is found in all parts of Italy, with large concentrations in Emilia-Romagna (especially near Rimini) and Tuscany (near Florence and Lucca).

Mercato

Mercato Saraceno, a municipality of the Province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna

Misano

Misano Adriatico, a town in the Province of Rimini, Emilia-Romagna

Morselli

As of 2013, in Italy there are approximately 1,200 people with the surname Morselli, approximately half of which reside in Emilia-Romagna.

Ozzano

Ozzano dell'Emilia, a town and municipality in the Province of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna

Pol. Virtus Castelfranco Calcio

Polisportiva Virtus Castelfranco Calcio is an Italian association football club located in Castelfranco Emilia, Emilia-Romagna.

President of Emilia-Romagna

Originally appointed by the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna, since 1995 de facto and 2000 de jure, he is elected by popular vote every five years under universal suffrage: the candidate who receives a plurality of votes, is elected.

Remini

Rimini is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini

Riserva naturale orientata Parma Morta

The Natural Reserve Parma Morta is located in Emilia-Romagna in the commune of Mezzani (Province of Parma| Parma), and was established in 1990.

Romagnola chicken

It was once widespread in central Italy, particularly in the provinces of Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena and Bologna in Emilia-Romagna.

Rovigo railway station

Trains depart frequently from Rovigo for Venezia and Bologna, and there are numerous regional trains (R) to every part of the Veneto/Lombardy/Emilia-Romagna area, especially during peak hours.

S.P. Reno Centese A.S.D.

Società Polisportiva Reno Centese Associazione Sportiva Dilettante is an Italian association football club from Reno Centese, frazione of Cento, Emilia-Romagna.

Salimbene di Adam

He then led a life of wandering, avoiding his father who did not wish him to join the Order, and visited Pisa and other Italian towns; then in 1247 he was sent to Lyon, and visited Paris, Ferrara Cremona, Troyes, Florence, Ravenna, Genoa, Reggio and the friary of Montefalcone (near San Polo d'Enza in the region of Emilia-Romagna).

Sammarinese cuisine

As San Marino is a microstate completely landlocked by Italy, Sammarinese cuisine is strongly similar to the Italian cuisine, especially that of the adjoining Emilia-Romagna and Marche regions.

Santarcangelo

Santarcangelo di Romagna, a town and comune in the province of Rimini (Emilia-Romagna), Italy

Sante Geminiani

Born in Lugo in the Emilia-Romagna, he began his professional Grand Prix racing career in 1949 riding for the Moto Guzzi factory racing team.

Savignano

Savignano sul Panaro, a municipality in the Province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna

Savignano sul Rubicone, a municipality in the Province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna

Sierra Tonante

Sierra Tonante, (Italian for "Thundering Mountain Range"), was a wooden roller coaster at Mirabilandia, Savio in Emilia-Romagna, Italy that operated between 1992 and 2007.

U.S. Centese A.S.D. 1986

Unione Sportiva Centese Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica 1986 is an Italian association football club located in Cento, Emilia-Romagna.

Vasco Errani

In 2012 during the earthquakes in Emilia, Errani was nominated special commissioner for the reconstruction, by the Prime Minister Monti and the chief the Protezione Civile Franco Gabrielli.

Via Aemilia

The boundaries of the Roman VIII regio roughly corresponded to those of the modern Italian administrative region of Emilia-Romagna.

Vincenzo Monti

Monti was born in Alfonsine, Province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna the son of Fedele and Domenica Maria Mazzari, landowners.

Walter Reder

In October 1951, Reder was sentenced to life imprisonment at Gaeta fortress prison, on the coast north of Naples, for ordering the destruction of Marzabotto and other villages near Bologna during the anti-partisan sweeps and for ordering the execution of Italian civilians in Tuscany and Emilia during the same period.