X-Nico

unusual facts about Marling, South Tyrol



.bz

Many websites in Italy use this domain, because of the abbreviation of Bolzano (de. Bozen) and the fact that the official abbreviation of the province of South Tyrol is BZ.

11th Infantry Division Brennero

It was made up of men from the Brenner Pass (a rare case of Italian Infantry Division whose name coincides with the ethnicity or place of residence of its members) and surrounding South Tyrol.

Alfred Erskine Marling

Alfred Erskine Marling (1859 – May 29, 1935) was the President of Horace S. Ely & Co. and later President of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York.

He was born in Canada and had a brother, Charles Edward Marling (c1860-1937).

Arnold Book of Old Songs

Some months later he and his friend Lord Brabourne, also from the 6th Battalion, were being transported by train from an Italian POW camp to Germany, and they escaped near Bronzolo in the South Tyrol.

Biculturalism

Bolzano South Tyrol, Italy 73.80% of the city's inhabitants speak Italian, 25.52% German and 0.68% Ladin

Bilingual sign

Another example is the German-speaking South Tyrol, which was annexed to Italy during World War I and eventually became the focus of assimilation policies (the conversion of toponyms into Italian by Ettore Tolomei, for example).

Carmina Burana

The two possible locations of its origin are the bishop's seat of Seckau in Styria and Kloster Neustift near Brixen in South Tyrol.

Carnic and Gailtal Alps

The main ridge of the Carnic Alps forms the Austrian-Italian border and stretches from prominent Mt. Helm near Sexten at the tripoint of East Tyrol, South Tyrol and Veneto to the Canal Valley at Tarvisio in the east.

Donor portrait

For example a chapel at Mals in South Tyrol has two fresco donor figures from before 881, one lay and the other of a tonsured cleric holding a model building.

Due assi per un turbo

Most of the scenes were shot in South Tyrol, in Sterzing and near Bolzano, but the series was one of the first produced for the Italian television to use many foreign locations, ranging from Moscow, Tunisia, Poland and Spain.

Figurine

Genre figurines of gallant scenes, beggars or figurines of saints are carved from pinewood in Val Gardena, South Tyrol (Italy), since the 17th century.

Giampietro Stocco

He got graduated from with a degree in Political Sciences at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza" with a thesis about the national and ethnic minorities in Europe, with a special focus on the cases of South Tyrol and Schleswig-Holstein.

John Bovingdon

Bovingdon founded a dance school with his wife, Jeanya Marling, later she married Soviet playwright Alexander Afinogenov.

Josef Moroder-Lusenberg

From his numerous sketch books we can see how precisely he observed nature, landscape and specially the Tyrolean and alpine lifestyle in Val Gardena.

Joseph Ennemoser

Ennemoser, the child of poor parents, was born in Egghof bei Rabenstein (today Moos in Passeier, South Tyrol, Italy) and raised by his grandfather.

Kurhaus of Meran

The Kurhaus of Meran, South Tyrol is a famous building in the town and a symbol of it.

LibreOffice

In June 2013, the government of the Italian province of South Tyrol will be switching 7000 PCs in administration and "many more thousands" PCs in health services using LibreOffice and ODF.

Lipoptena cervi

Remains of Lipoptena cervi have been found on Ötzi, the Stone Age mummy from the Schnalstal glacier in South Tyrol.

Malosco

Although the main road at the point of the town is the SS42 however, it is the SS238 road which is the main road of access from the north which leads down from Marling and it is the SS43 road which connects it to Lago di Santa Giustina in the southwest, a road which joins the A22 road (European Route 45) at San Michele all'Adige to the southeast.

Monte Piana

The Monte Piana is a 2,324 tall mountain in the Sexten Dolomites and located on the border between the provinces of South Tyrol and Belluno.

Montiggler Seen

The Montiggler Seen are two lakes in the municipality of Eppan in South Tyrol, Italy.

North Tyrol

Besides those two regions, the historical region of Tyrol for many centuries also included the South Tyrol and the historical region of Welschtirol, which were annexed by Italy after World War I.

Ö2

Österreich 2 (abbreviated to Ö2; previously known as Österreich-Regional, ÖR) is the name given to the regional radio service for Austria and South Tyrol, Italy, aired by the ORF public broadcasting corporation.

Parish church of Urtijëi

The Parish Church of Urtijëi located in the town of Urtijëi in Val Gardena in South Tyrol, Italy is dedicated to the Epiphany and to Saint Ulrich.

Republic of German-Austria

This included nearly all the territory of present-day Austria, plus South Tyrol and the town of Tarvisio, both now in Italy; southern Carinthia and southern Styria, now in Slovenia; and Sudetenland and German Bohemia (which later became part of Sudetenland), now in the Czech Republic.

Rudolf Moroder-Lenèrt

Rudolf Moroder-Lenèrt (26 January 1877, Urtijëi, County of Tyrol - 22 December 1914, Radlow, Galicia) was an Austrian sculptor specializing in religious art, who was a member of the Moroder family of South Tyrol, which was notable for the many artists of repute they produced.

Sabina Panzanini

Born in Eppan an der Weinstraße, in the South Tyrol, she competed in Alpine Skiing World Cup from 1991 to 2000, obtaining her first podium in December 1992 at Steamboat Springs.

Sauna

In Germany, Austria as well as South Tyrol where most public swimming pool complexes have sauna areas, nudity is the generally accepted rule, as is the covering of benches with towels.

Scheibenschlagen

The tradition of Scheibenschlagen is particularly widespread in and around the area of the Upper Rhine Plain (in the Black Forest, Breisgau, Basel-Landschaft, Alsace,) as well as in Vorarlberg, parts of West- and South Tyrol, in Bündner Oberland Breil/Brigels and in Churer Rheintal Untervaz.

Schuko

Schuko sockets are most commonly used for larger-rated appliances such as washing machines, and are particularly common in South Tyrol, with its cultural, economic and tourist connections with Austria.

Sedbury

The estates were bought by the businessman and politician Samuel Marling in 1875, and his son Sir William Henry Marling made major alterations to the house around 1898.

Südtirol Heute

Südtirol Heute (German for South Tyrol Today) is a television programme of the Austrian ORF, which is broadcast in Austria and relayed by the Rundfunk Anstalt Südtirol (RAS) in South Tyrol, Italy.

TechnoAlpin

TechnoAlpin AG, which is based in Bolzano, South Tyrol specializes in manual and fully automated snow-making systems.

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections, 2008

In South Tyrol the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), which had governed the Province for sixty years, was confirmed by far as the largest party, but lost many votes to Die Freiheitlichen.

Venetian regional election, 2010

The Venetian PdL is afraid that Liga Veneta, headed by Zaia, will dominate regional politics for many years to come, similarly to what the South Tyrolean People's Party has done in South Tyrol.

Veronese Riddle

Michele A. Cortelazzo and Ivano Paccagnella say that the plural -es of boves may well be considered Ladin (a Romance language spoken in parts of Veneto, Trentino and South Tyrol) and therefore not Latin, but romance.

Wolfgang Hellrigl

Hellrigl was born in Cologne and descended from a South Tyrolean family.


see also