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3 unusual facts about Gaeta


Antonio Pietrangeli

Antonio Pietrangeli (born January 19, 1919 in Rome, died July 12, 1968 in Gaeta) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

Puntarelle

The name also refers to the salad produced in two municipalities in the province of Latina, Formia and Gaeta.

Puntarelle or cicoria di catalogna or cicoria asparago is a late fall early winter chicory which originated on the Catalonia coastline of Lazio Gaeta.


Antonio Salemme

Antonio Salemme (born 1892 in Gaeta, Italy− d. May 1, 1995 in Williams Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania) was an Italian born American artist.

Feast of the Most Precious Blood

When Pope Pius IX went into exile at Gaeta in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (1849), he had as his companion Father Giovanni Merlini, third superior general of the Fathers of the Most Precious Blood.

Flores-class gunboat

Flores and Soemba were united in the Mediterranean Sea and played an active and successful role in the landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, Garigliano, Gaeta and finally, at the beaches of Normandy in June 1944.

Giovanni Galzerani

He was born in Porto Azzurro on the Isle of Elba and began his education in Gaeta where his father was the military commandant at the time.

Gualganus Ridel

His reign marked a political separation between Gaeta the city and Pontecorvo, a massive rural castle where the Ridells resided.

John Gaeta

After co-supervising development for 3-D paint effect stylizations and LIDAR laser scanning for What Dreams May Come (1998 Visual Effects Oscar winner), Gaeta began his first solo effects supervision project for Larry and Andy Wachowski's film, The Matrix.

John Gwinn

At Gaeta on August 1 Gwinn received on board King Ferdinand II and Pope Pius IX.

John IV of Naples

In 999, he was captured and taken a prisoner first to Capua, then back to Germany by Otto III, the Holy Roman Emperor, who had just visited Saint Nilus the Younger in Gaeta.

John Stuart, Count of Maida

Thus exposed, Naples fell to the advancing troops of Masséna but Gaeta still held out for King Ferdinand and Masséna's main force became locked up in the siege of this fortress.

Maria of Gaeta

As senatrix and ducissa of Gaeta, Maria ruled as regent for her and Atenulf's son Atenulf II after her husband's death on 2 February 1062.

Pope Boniface IX

Boniface IX saw to it that Ladislaus was crowned King of Naples at Gaeta on 29 May 1390 and worked with him for the next decade to expel the Angevin forces from southern Italy.

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.


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