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48 unusual facts about Lombardy


A.S.D.C. Magenta

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Calcio Magenta is an Italian association football club located in Magenta, Lombardy.

Alahis

Finally, in 689, Cunipter issued forth with the men of Piedmont and defeated Alahis and the men of Venetia at the Battle of Coronate, on the Horn of the Adda, near Lodi.

Annamaria Mazzetti

Annamaria Mazzetti (born 25 August 1988 in Magenta, Lombardy, Provincia di Milano) is an Italian professional triathlete and 2009 National Champion in three categories (Duathlon Sprint, Triathlon Sprint, Olympic Distance).

Antonio Paglia

Among his main works was a large decorative cycle for the parish church of Chiari.

Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny

Stewart received orders from Charles VIII to lead one thousand of the king's cavalry over the Alps and into Lombardy and after taking part with Charles in the conquest of Romagna accompanied him in the triumphal entry into Florence on 15 November 1494.

Boffalora sopra Ticino

Boffalora sopra Ticino borders the following municipalities: Marcallo con Casone, Bernate Ticino, Magenta, Trecate, Cerano.

Bruno Coppi

Bruno Coppi (born 19 November 1935 in Gonzaga, Lombardy, Italy) is an Italian-American physicist specializing in plasma physics.

Calcio

Calcio, Lombardy, a town and comune in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

Caravaggisti

Yet in Rome and in Italy it was not Caravaggio, but the influence of Annibale Carracci, blending elements from the High Renaissance and Lombard realism, which ultimately triumphed.

Cassinetta di Lugagnano

Cassinetta di Lugagnano borders the following municipalities: Corbetta, Robecco sul Naviglio, Albairate, and Abbiategrasso.

Chaplain of His Holiness

The members of the chapters of one church in Rome and the cathedral in Lodi hold this title durante munere (i.e., while holding that office).

Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine

Early in 1796 he set out with Bonaparte on the Italian campaign, and at Lodi (Lombardy), contributed to the great victory by a brilliant cavalry charge.

Emilio Bianchi

Emilio Bianchi (born in Rho, Lombardy, 8 October 1957) is an Italian broadcast journalist.

Emilio Cavenaghi

Emilio Cavenaghi, an Italian painter of landscapes and genre pieces, was born in Caravaggio in 1852.

Filippo Juvarra

He was engaged in some projects in Lombardy, including a monumental altar for the Sanctuary Church of Caravaggio (never built, and substituted by a smaller work by architect Carlo Giuseppe Merlo), and the altar for the Bergamo Cathedral.

Giovanni Ancillotto

On 18 October 1924, Giovanni Ancillotto was killed in an automobile accident in Caravaggio, Lombardy.

Giovanni Angelo Borroni

He painted frescoes on mythologic themes for the Villa Brentano Carones in Corbetta, along with Mattia Bortoloni.

Giovanni Battista Sassi

He painted frescos for the Palazzo Modigliani in Lodi, the Palazzo Brentano of Corbetta, where other artists such as Mattia Bortoloni, Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Giovanni Antonio Cucchi.

Giovanni Paolo I Sforza

When his other half-brother Francesco II made a similar attempt (1525), Giovanni Paolo was besieged in the Castello Sforzesco by the Spaniards under Antonio de Leyva; three years later he was again besieged by them in Lodi, this time with victorious results.

Giuseppe Maria Bozzi

He exercised his ministry in the Milanese monastery of St. Eustorgius, in the college of the oblates of Rho, and as provost in the parish church of his native Rosata.

Henry Hare, 3rd Baron Coleraine

Coleraine, finding a reconciliation impossible, formed on 29 April 1740 a "solemn engagement" with Rose Duplessis (1710–1790), daughter of François Duplessis, a French clergyman, by whom he had a daughter, Henrietta Rosa Peregrina, born at Crema, Lombardy in Italy 12 September 1745.

Hieronymus Medices

He first distinguished himself as professor of philosophy and theology in various houses of the Province of Lombardy, whence he was advanced to a professorship in the more important theological school at Bologna.

Irisbus Arway

In Italy, it is in service with public transport companies at Piacenza, Ferrara, Brescia and Lodi and in Spain can be found in public transport companies of, for example, Madrid.

László Csány

Csány served as a cadet in the 9th Hussar Regiment until 1813, after that became second lieutenant in the 5th Radetzky Hussar Regiment, which stationed in Lombardy.

Lentate sul Seveso

Lentate sul Seveso borders the following municipalities: Mariano Comense, Carimate, Cermenate, Novedrate, Cabiate, Meda, Lazzate, Misinto, Barlassina, Cogliate.

Lodi, Missouri

The community was founded in 1893 and is named after Lodi, Italy.

Luigi Manini

He was born in Crema, Italy, and studied at the Brera Academy before becoming an assistant to Carlo Ferrario, the professor of stage design at La Scala.

Magneti Marelli

Headquartered in Corbetta (province of Milan), the company includes 86 manufacturing plants, 12 R&D centres and 26 application centers in 19 countries.

Marcallo con Casone

Marcallo con Casone borders the following municipalities: Ossona, Mesero, Santo Stefano Ticino, Bernate Ticino, Magenta, Boffalora sopra Ticino.

Milano Rogoredo railway station

The importance of this station has increased with the extension of the Milan suburban railway service to Pavia and Lodi, and the new residential district called Santa Giulia.

Palazzo Castiglioni

The Castiglioni were a prominent family from the Lombard aristocracy since the 10th Century.

Parmigianino

In 1521, Parmigianino was sent to Viadana (along with painter Girolamo Bedoli who was to marry his cousin) to escape the wars between the French, Imperial, and papal armies.

Pier Alberto Carrara

Pier Alberto Carrara (born February 14, 1966 in Bergamo) he grew up in Serina is an Italian former biathlete.

Rho railway station

Rho railway station is a railway station in Italy, that serves the town of Rho.

Ricky Gianco

Ricky Gianco (born Riccardo Sanna, Lodi 1943), formerly known as Ricky Sanna, is an Italian singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer, considered one of the founders of Italian rock music.

Santa Maria di Caravaggio Church, Naples

Construction was begun in 1627 under the patronage of Felice Pignella, and dedicated to the Holy Mary of Caravaggio, a small town in the Province of Bergamo.

Santo Stefano Ticino

Santo Stefano Ticino borders the following municipalities: Arluno, Ossona, Marcallo con Casone, Corbetta, and Magenta.

Sonico

Sonico, Lombardy, a comune in the province of Brescia, Lombardy, Italy

Stefano Rossini

Stefano Rossini (born 2 February 1971 in Viadana) is an Italian footballer, who has played for numerous clubs throughout his career.

Turin–Milan railway

The bridge over the river connecting to the existing railway from Milan at Magenta was opened on 1 June 1859.

U.S.D. Caravaggio

Unione Sportiva Dilettantistica Caravaggio is an Italian association football club, based in Caravaggio, Lombardy.

U.S.O. Calcio

In the summer 2009, the executives representatives of the city of Caravaggio after disagreements over the management team, left the company refounding the team of Caravaggio and so U.S. Calcio Caravaggese has changed its name returning to the original name of U.S.O. Calcio and in the season 2009-10 it has played in Eccellenza Lombardy group C.

In 2007 the club was merged with U.S. Caravaggese, a team of the town of Caravaggio founding U.S. Calcio Caravaggese.

Val Taleggio

The valley’s river is the Enna which over the course of the centuries has gouged out a spectacular 3 km gorge between San Giovanni Bianco and Taleggio known as the Orrido della Val Taleggio (pictured, right).

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.

William VII, Marquess of Montferrat

Having become the military leader of various Lombard cities, including Pavia, Vercelli, Alessandria, Tortona, Genoa, Turin, Asti, Alba, Novara, Brescia, Cremona, and Lodi, he was also elected head of the anti-Angevin coalition.

Zachariah Carpi

Zachariah Carpi was an Italian-Jewish revolutionary, born at Revere in the second half of the 18th century.

Zagato

Zagato is an independent coachbuilding company and total design center located northwest of Milan in the Terrazzano frazione of Rho, Lombardy, Italy.


A.C. Ponte San Pietro Isola S.S.D.

Associazione Calcio Ponte San Pietro Isola Società Sportiva Dilettantistica (usually referred to as Pontisola) is an Italian association football club located in Ponte San Pietro and also representing the towns of Terno d'Isola and Chignolo d'Isola, Lombardy.

A.S.D. MapelloBonate Calcio

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica MapelloBonate Calcio or simply MapelloBonate is an Italian association football club, based in Mapello and also representing Bonate Sopra, Lombardy.

Abbadia

Abbadia Cerreto, a municipality in the Province of Lodi, Lombardy

Ad extirpanda

The bull was issued in the wake of the murder of the papal inquisitor of Lombardy, St. Peter of Verona, who was killed by a conspiracy of Cathar sympathizers on 6 April 1252.

Adalbert of Italy

In 957, Liudolf, Duke of Swabia, invaded Lombardy and caused Berenagar to flee, though Adalbert gathered a large force at Verona.

Andrea Belotti

Born in Calcinate, Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Belotti started his career at the second largest team of the province, then-Serie B club AlbinoLeffe.

Angelo Motta

Angelo Motta was born in the Lombardy commune of Gessate in 1890 and in the early years of the twentieth century served an apprenticeship in Treviglio and Milan as a pasticceria artisan (a pastry baker).

Anhydrite

A peculiar variety occurring as contorted concretionary masses is known as tripe-stone, and a scaly granular variety, from Volpino, near Bergamo, in Lombardy, as vulpinite; the latter is cut and polished for ornamental purposes.

Ardennes classics

Later in the year, there are two similar 'trebles' in Italy: the Trittico Lombardo with the Tre Valli Varesine, Coppa Ugo Agostoni and Coppa Bernocchi in the Lombardy Region, and the Trittico di Autunno (Autumn Triptych) with Milano–Torino, Giro del Piemonte and Giro di Lombardia.

Aurora Seriate Calcio

Aurora Seriate Calcio or simply Aurora Seriate is an Italian association football club, based in Seriate, Lombardy.

Battle of Sirmium

The centre, which had constituted the rearguard on the march, was commanded by Kontostephanos himself, and consisted of the imperial guards units, including the Varangians and Hetaireiai, units of Italian mercenaries from Lombardy (probably lancers) and a unit of 500 armored Serbian allied infantry, as well as the Vlach cavalry.

Besozzi

Besozzi is the surname of an ancient and noble family of Western Insubria still present in Lombardy and Ticino, with dozens of family strains.

Bonarda

Croatina or Bonarda dell'Oltrepò Pavese, grown in Lombardy, around Pavia

Camillo Golgi

Camillo Golgi was born in July 1843 in the village of Corteno, in the province of Brescia (Lombardy), then part of the Austrian Empire.

Cannero Riviera

Cannero Riviera borders the following municipalities: Aurano, Cannobio, Oggebbio, Trarego Viggiona; and across the lake in the Lombard Province of Varese: Brezzo di Bedero, Germignaga, Luino.

Caprino

Caprino Bergamasco, a municipality in the Italian region of Lombardy

Casorate

Casorate Sempione, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about 40 km northwest of Milan and about 20 km southwest of Varese.

Castellazzo

Castellazzo di Bollate, within the municipal boundaries of the commune of Bollate in the Province of Milan, Lombardy

Charlotte Krona

On April 11, 2011 she was presented as an Easter egg surprise inside a gigantic egg for Mr. Silvio Berlusconi during an Easter party organized by the local The People of Freedom chapter of the region of Lombardy, with the presence of the Lombardy governor Roberto Formigoni and the then Milan mayor Letizia Moratti.

Cosio

Cosio Valtellino, an Italian municipality in the Province of Sondrio, Lombardy

Count Manfred Beckett Czernin

His second mission took place in March 1945 when he parachuted in Lombardy, taking command of the operations that led to the surrender of Bergamo.

Crespi d'Adda

Crespi d'Adda is a historical settlement in Capriate San Gervasio, Lombardy, northern Italy.

Davide Luppi

Born in Trescore Balneario, Lombardy, Luppi started his career at Emilian club Bologna.

Ferrovie Nord Milano

Until the end of the century FNM also acquired the lines Novara-Seregno and Saronno-Grandate, forming a large network in northern Lombardy in direct competition with the Società per le Strade Ferrate del Mediterraneo.

Gian Giacomo Medici

Gian Giacomo Medici (25 January 1498 – 8 November 1555) was an Italian condottiero, Duke of Marignano and Marquess of Musso and Lecco in Lombardy.

Gianni Bugno

He ran for a seat in Lombard Regional Council in the Lombard regional election, 2010 for the centre left coalition of political parties but he was not elected.

Giuseppe Baldrighi

Born in the town of Stradella, in Lombardy, he initially trained with an unknown painter in Naples, where his family lived.

Heinrich von Brentano

The Brentano family, of Italian (Lombard) origin, had settled in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in the 17th century and were recognized as Hessian nobles, with close contact to important figures of the German Romanticism, including Goethe, Savigny and Arnim.

Iseo

Lake Iseo, a lake in the Provinces of Bergamo and Brescia, Lombardy

Jacques de la Palice

La Palice took part in the siege of Treviglio and in the victorious Battle of Agnadello; he was then made commander-in-chief of the French troops in Lombardy and, sent to help Emperor Maximilian I, he took part against the Venetians in the unsuccessful siege of Padua in 1509.

Jean Roemer

At the close of the war he visited the great military establishments of France, Prussia, and Austria, and completed his studies in Lombardy under the guidance and auspices of Field-Marshal Count Radetzky.

John W. Collins

There has been a long-held belief that Collins was Fischer's teacher and coach, as well as a teacher and coach for William Lombardy, Robert Byrne, Donald Byrne, Raymond Weinstein, Salvatore Matera, and Lewis Cohen.

Limits of the Five Patriarchates

Christians ever crowd until Ravenna, Lombardy, and Thessalonika, Slavic, and Scythians, and Avars until Danube river, the ecclesiastical border, and Sardinia, Megara, Carthage, and part of Balearic Islands, and part of Sicily and Calabria, where the winds blow nasty, from the north, from the south, from the west-south, and from the east-south.

Luigi Fenaroli

His bequeathed a broad scientific legacy, including a large Herbarium and photographic archive, as well as his family's botanical garden, in the municipality of Tavernola Bergamasca, on the shore of the pre-alpine Lake Iseo, where he grew plants and crops exotic to the Lombardy region.

Monasterolo

Monasterolo del Castello, a municipality in the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy

Okanagan Falls Provincial Park

In the 1950s, non-native tree species like Chinese elm, Norway maple, Red ash and Lombardy poplar were planted in the park.

Pallavicini family

A number of lines descended from Guglielmo (died 1217), possessor of a series of fiefs between Parma and Piacenza and a descendant of the Lombard Obertenga family (along with the Este, the Cavalcabò and Malaspina).

Perceval Doria

Between 1228 and 1243 he assumed the character of a podestà in several Provençal and north Italian cities, such as Arles, Avignon, Asti, and Parma.

Pierre Giorgio Regonesi

Born in Osio Sotto, the Province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Regonesi started his career at hometown club Atalanta Bergamo.

Porrettana railway

On 14 March 1856, an agreement was signed in Vienna between the Austrian Empire, the Duchy of Parma and Modena, The Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Papal States for the construction of the Central Italian Railway (Italian: Strada Ferrata dell'Italia Centrale) from Piacenza to Pistoia, with a branch to Mantua and anticipating strategic links with the existing lines of Lombardy and Veneto and extensions to Rome.

Rideau Lakes, Ontario

Rideau Lakes contains many villages and hamlets, including Chaffeys Lock, Chantry, Crosby, Daytown, Delta, Elgin, Forfar, Freeland, Harlem, Jones Falls, Lombardy, Morton, Newboro, Newboyne, Phillipsville, Plum Hollow, Portland, Rideau Ferry, and Scotch Point.

Ruggero Bonghi

At Turin he resumed his philosophic studies and his translation of Plato, but In 1858 refused a professorship of Greek at Pavia, under the Austrian government, only to accept it in 1859 from the Italian government after the liberation of Lombardy.

Saint-Félix-Lauragais

In 1167 the Cathars held a Council here, attended by many local figures and also by the Bogomil papa Nicetas, the Cathar bishop of (northern) France and a leader of the Cathars of Lombardy.

SEA Group

SEA Group (Italian - Societa' Europea Autocaravan; pronounced "sayer") is an Italian head quartered motorcaravan manufacturer, based in Trivolzio, Lombardy.

Silvio Poma

Silvio Poma (Trescore Balneario, Bergamo, 1840 – Turate, Como, 1932) was an Italian painter, mainly painting land and lake-side seascapes of the Lombardy lake district.

Torrevecchia

Torrevecchia Pia, a municipality in the Province of Pavia, Lombardy