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12 unusual facts about Foggia


414th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron

From airfields around Foggia, conducted long-range strategic bombardment missions over Southern Europe and the Balkans of enemy targets until the German Capitulation in May 1945.

560th Flying Training Squadron

At one point the squadron carried out shuttle bombing missions from England to Germany to Poltava, USSR, to Foggia, Italy, and back to England.

Barri Jones

After receiving his D.Phil from Oxford, Jones continued to work in Italy, analyzing aerial photographs of Apulia, leading to important discoveries at Foggia.

Dietrich Peltz

In late 1941, Major Peltz was made Commanding Officer of the Bomber Unit Commanders School at Foggia, where all operational bomber commanders were trained in the latest operational techniques.

Donato Coco

Donato Coco (born 1956, Foggia) is an Italian automobile designer.

Foggia

The makers of the well-known American TV sitcom All in the Family included in the biography of the main character Archie Bunker a World War II service at Foggia, in the ranks of the United States Army Air Corps.

It was also seat of his court and a studium, including figures such as Michael Scot, but little of it remains now.

Italian Aesculapian Snake

The northern limit of its geographical range is the Province of Caserta in the west and the Province of Foggia in the east.

Margaret of Sicily

Margaret of Sicily (also called Margaret of Hohenstaufen or Margaret of Germany) (1 December 1241, in Foggia – 8 August 1270, in Frankfurt-am-Main), was a Princess of Sicily and Germany, and a member of the House of Hohenstaufen.

San Severo railway station

It is one of the main railway stations in the province of Foggia.

Tortorella Airfield

Tortorella Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, which is located approximately 9 km east-northeast of Foggia; about 130 km northeast of Naples.

Via Giotto in Foggia building collapse

The Viale Giotto 120 Building collapse was a deadly accident which occurred in Foggia, Italy in the early morning of November 11, 1999.


26th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing

On 8 December 1943, after the allies captured the airfields in the vicinity of Foggia, the group moved to San Severo, Italy, near Foggia.

31 Squadron SAAF

From 16 June 1944 the squadron started to move to the Celone airfield close to Foggia in southern Italy to join No. 205 Group RAF, RAF together with 178 and 614 RAF Squadrons.

Barletta railway station

The station was opened on 11 August 1864, upon the inauguration of the FoggiaTrani section of the Adriatic Railway.

Battle of Civitate

To begin with, Leo moved to Apulia, and reached the Fortore River near the city of Civitate (or Civitella, northwest of Foggia).

Benevento railway station

On 1 August 1868, the station became a through station, when the next section of the Naples–Foggia railway was completed, between Benevento and Montecalvo Irpino.

The station was opened on 18 April 1868, upon the inauguration of the Casalduni–Benevento section of the Naples–Foggia railway.

Casalnuovo

Casalnuovo Monterotaro, a municipality of the Province of Foggia, Apulia

Ernesto Lamagna

:the monuments within the Church of the Holy Spirit in Torremaggiore near Foggia, Italy;

Foggia Calcio

The team gained nationwide popularity as U.S. Foggia in the 1990s when coached by Zdeněk Zeman because of its attacking, spectacular style of play, which brought Foggia continuously on the verge of UEFA Cup qualification, launching several players who later broke through at international level such as Giuseppe Signori, Francesco Baiano, Brian Roy, Igor Kolyvanov, Igor Shalimov, Roberto Rambaudi and Dan Petrescu.

Francesco Foggia

For example, while he never worked in France, 7 of Foggia's motets survive in a collection by Danican Philidor, along with motets by Carissimi, Daniel Danielis, Pierre Robert and Lully.

His wife Eugenia died on 12 March 1683; Foggia died on 8 January 1688 and was buried in the church of Santa Prassede in Rome.

Gentile di Puglia

It derives from cross-breeding local ewes with Merino rams brought from Spain, first by Alfonso V of Aragon in the fifteenth century, and later, repeatedly, by the Bourbon kings of Naples, who had extensive estates near Foggia.

Potenza Centrale railway station

The more common regional trains link Potenza with closer destinations, including Salerno, Naples, Melfi, Foggia and Taranto.

RAF Hal Far

To deter any possible enemy attack, nine Spitfire IXs of N° 1435 Squadron, and six Mosquito night fighters of N° 256 Squadron, deployed to Hal Far from Grottaglie and Foggia respectively, two of the Mosquitos escorting the Prime Minister's Avro York transport aircraft outside Malta and into Luqa airfield on 29 January.

Termoli railway station

The station was opened to the public on 25 April 1864, simultaneously with the OrtonaFoggia section of the Adriatic Railway.

Verdeca

San Severo DOC - A DOC containing around 2,000 ha (5,000 acres) situated around the town of San Severo, north of Foggia in the Capitanata di Puglia region.