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unusual facts about Lugano–Ponte Tresa railway



1996 UCI Road World Championships – Women's road race

The Women's Individual Road Race at the 1996 UCI Road World Championships was held in October 1996 in Lugano, Switzerland, over a total distance of 100.8 kilometres.

Adriano B. Lucatelli

Lucatelli is a life member of the Cantonal Art Museum in Lugano, an honorary member of Pi Sigma Alpha (the National Political Science Honor Society), and a member of the Athenaeum Club in London.

Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza

He married fourthly at Lugano-Castagnola, 13 December 1967, Liane Denise Shorto (b. Garça, São Paulo, 23 December 1942), a Brazilian banker's daughter, from whom he was divorced 29 November 1984.

Besso

Besso, Ticino, a suburb of the city of Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino

Bioggio

Bioggio is served by Bioggio station and Bioggio Molinazzo station, both of which are on the metre gauge Lugano–Ponte Tresa railway that connects to Lugano.

Boško Abramović

Best results: 1st at Lugano 1981; 1st at Pamporovo 1982; 1st at Reykjavík 1982; 1st at Vrnjacka Banja 1983; 1st at Niš 1983; 1st at Belgrade 1984; 1st at Linz 1984; 1st at Paris 1985; 2nd at Montpellier 1986; 1st at Berlin 1990; 1st at Oberwart 1990; 1st at Kladovo 1993; 1st at Bela Crkva 1995; 2nd in the Serbian chess championship 2006.

Brusino Arsizio

The municipality is located in the Lugano district along the road from punta di Poiana(in Riva San Vitale) along Lake Lugano to the Italian border at Porto Ceresio.

BSI Challenger Lugano

It is held annually at the Tennis Club Lido Lugano in Lugano, Switzerland, since 1999.

Casinò Lugano

Casinò Lugano (formerly known as Teatro Kursaal) is a casino and theatre designed by Italian architect Achille Sfondrini in 1804.

Castagnole

Castagnola, a village and former municipality part of Lugano, Switzerland

Collina d'Oro

The northern part of the municipality is served by Cappella-Agnuzzo station on the Lugano–Ponte Tresa railway.

Contone

In the 16th Century, the Commandry estates went to the hospital in Lugano and in 1811 to the Antognini family of Bellinzona.

Dilipkumar Roy

Inviting Roy through the International Peace and Freedom Society, Romain Rolland arranged for him a seminar on Indian classical music in Lugano, and had his lectures translated and published in French.

EJO

European Journalism Observatory, a media research institute at the University of Lugano

Elias Gottlob Haussmann

The Landgraf allowed him a study trip through Germany, where he met portraitist Francesco Carlo Rusca at Lugano.

Fleming College Florence

Originally founded in Lugano, Switzerland in 1968, the College relocated to Florence, Italy in 1972 to Torre Di Gattaia, just off Viale Michelangelo on a hill above the city.

T.A.S.I.S. continues today with campuses in Lugano; Surrey, England; and Dorado, Puerto Rico.

Franklin College Switzerland

The Franklin campus is residential, and is located on a hillside overlooking the town of Lugano, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

Guilherme Afonso

Afonso has played club-football in Switzerland for Étoile Carouge, Sion, Grasshopper, Lugano and FC Vaduz; in France for Valence; and in the Netherlands for Twente and Veendam.

Joop Atsma

Atsma 178ste during the meeting of the International Cycling Union in Lugano in 2009 again elected to the Board of the Union Cycliste Internationale.

Jurgis Šaulys

In the wake of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, he moved to Lugano in Switzerland with his wife, the Italian opera singer Mafalda Salvatini, acting as the Lithuanian ambassador in Berne until the legation was closed in 1946.

Leonardo Conti

Conti was born to a Swiss Italian father, Silvio, and a German mother, Nanna Pauli, in Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland; his mother later became the Reich Midwifery Leader in Nazi Germany.

Lev Psakhis

In international tournaments, he has had many fine results, including outright or shared first place at Naleczow 1980, Sarajevo 1981, Cienfuegos 1983, Troon 1984, Sverdlovsk 1984, Szirak 1986, Sarajevo 1986, Sevastopol 1986, Lugano Open 1988, Tel Aviv 1990 (and again in 1999), London MSO 1999 and Andorra 2002.

Lombard Bank

2007: Marfin Popular Bank acquired 43% of the share capital from BSI, Lugano, and other international investors for €48 million.

Luciano Manara

With the remains of Emilio Morosini and Enrico Dandolo (the latter having been killed at Villa Corsini), it was eventually brought to Vezia (Lugano), where it was temporarily laid to rest in the family vault of the Morosini.

Magliaso

Magliaso is served by Magliaso station and Magliaso Paese station, on the metre gauge Lugano–Ponte Tresa railway that connects to Lugano.

Manno

In 1990-96 it was home to the UBS administrative center for Suglio-Lugano and since 1997 the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (university of Italian Switzerland).

Melide

The Melide causeway, a road and rail crossing of Lake Lugano in Switzerland

Mendrisio railway station

The station is on the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, between Lugano and Chiasso, and is also the junction for the Mendrisio–Stabio railway, currently only used for freight traffic, but being rebuilt as an international connection to Varese.

Nyanatiloka

Enrico Bignani, the publisher of Coenobium: Rivista Internazionale di Liberi Studi from Lugano had found a solitary alpine hut at the foot of Monte Lema Mountain, near the village of Novaggio overlooking Lake Maggiore, and Nyanatiloka left Burma for Novaggio at the of end 1909 or the beginning of 1910.

Pablo Atchugarry

In 1980-81, he continued travelling and exhibiting his paintings in Lucerne, Lugano, Munich, Zurich, London, Malmö, Paris and Bogotá.

Paul Coleridge

He was in practice at the Queen Elizabeth Building from 1970 to 1985 and 1989 to 2000, serving as international legal adviser to Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza in Lugano, Switzerland in the intervening period.

RSI Rete Tre

On 1 January 2008, a party was held in the city centre of Lugano, beginning at 0:03, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the station, with a special song "We Are Rete Tre" (cover of the more famous "We Are the World").

Società Navigazione del Lago di Lugano

The Società di Navigazione e Ferrovie per lago di Lugano (SNF) was formed in 1873 to construct and operate a transport link from Menaggio, on Lake Como, to Luino, on Lake Maggiore, via Lugano.

Sorengo

Sorengo is served by Sorengo station and Sorengo Laghetto station on the Lugano–Ponte Tresa railway.

Ştefan Odobleja

In 1982 a group of scientists have established the "Cybernetics Academy "Ştefan Odobleja", a scientific forum registered in Lugano, Switzerland, financed by the Romanian billionaire Prof. Dr. Iosif Constantin Drăgan.

Tessina

The Tessina (officially created by Arnold Siegrist) is a high-quality 35 mm camera patented by Austrian chemical engineer Dr. Rudolph Steineck in Lugano Switzerland, manufactured by Siegrist in Grenchen Switzerland.

Tom Scheffler

In his post-career days, Scheffler has settled in Lugano, Switzerland and is running an English school.

Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi

The Lugano Città–Stazione funicular links Central Lugano with Lugano station, and runs continuously from 05:20 to 23:50, seven days a week.

Varese railway station

On the new line, regional trains will link Varese with Mendrisio, and there will also be direct trains between Malpensa Airport and Lugano.

William Grant Naboré

William Grant Naboré (born in Roanoke, Virginia) is an American classical pianist and holds the "Theo Lieven" chair for advanced studies in piano and chamber music performance at the University of Music of the Lugano Conservatory.

Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman

He sought to take care of many orphans and tried to rescue them from the clutches of secular Zionist organizations, especially the Yaldei Tehran ("Children of Tehran") – children who escaped from Nazi Europe by walking across Europe to Tehran (including the famous Biala Rebbe – Rabbi Ben Zion Rabinowitz).

Zulfiya Zabirova

According to the Russian Newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Zabirova's main place of residence and training is Lugano, Switzerland (as of 2005).


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