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14 unusual facts about Novara


6608 Davidecrespi

It is named after Davide Crespi, an Italian amateur astronomer from Novara.

Ansprand

He was defeated at Novara by Raginpert and exiled during the subsequent war over the succession, fleeing to the court of Theudebert, duke of Bavaria, in 702.

Battle of Palestro

After the battle of Montebello of 20 May 1859, the Franco-Piedmontese army moved towards Novara, aiming to reach Milan, the capital of Lombardy-Venetia, the Austrian province in northern Italy.

Busto Arsizio Nord railway station

Busto Arsizio Nord is served by the regional trains MilanNovara and by the Malpensa Express, both operated by the lombard railway company Trenord.

Denis Juneau

Despite this handicap, and having a paralysed right leg from poliomyelitis contracted at age 3, he went on to study in Italy, at the Sculoa di Disegno di Novara from 1954 to 1956.

Ezio Maria Gray

Ezio Maria Gray (born 9 October 1885 in Novara, Piedmont - died 8 February 1969 in Rome) was an Italian politician and journalist.

Giacinto Morera

He was born in Novara on 18 July 1856, the son of Giacomo Morera and Vittoria Unico.

Isabella Leonarda

Isabella Leonarda (6 September 1620 – 25 February 1704) was an Italian composer from Novara.

Milano Porta Garibaldi railway station

The latter station was also called the “Varesine” station" (after Varese) and was the terminus of lines to Gallarate, Novara and Varese.

Mole Antonelliana

Antonelli had recently added a 121 metre-high dome and spire to the seventeenth-century Basilica of San Gaudenzio in Novara and promised to build a synagogue for 280,000 lire.

Novara-class cruiser

The Novara class, known as Rapidkreuzer or Helgoland-Klasse (in English literally rapid cruiser ) was a class of light cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy active during the First World War.

Novaria

Novaria is the ancient name for the city of Novara in Piedmont, Italy.

Psychofagist

Psychofagist (pronounced sahy-kohf-uh-jist, from Ancient Greek element psykho- meaning "mind, mental" and Latin suffix -phagus or -fagus meaning “to eat”) is a band originally formed in 2002 in Novara, North-West of Italy.

Sanciolo d'Aragona

He married Lucia Palizzi, daughter of the count of Novara.


1.6 Band

The band was originally formed in 1989 by Jaeger, Novara, and Yanicelli in Holbrook, Long Island, New York, with an assortment of other musicians attempting a variety of music styles.

Adriano Ciocca Vasino

Adriano Ciocca Vasino was born on July 8, 1949 in Borgosesia, in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Novara based in Novara, Italy.

Ameno

Ameno, Italy, a comune in the Province of Novara, Piedmont, Italy

Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen

Albrecht personally supervised the crossing of the Ticino and by the handling of his division ensuring victory at Novara on 23 March 1849.

Austrian colonization of Nicobar Islands

Motivated by an urge to explore, Arch-Duke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria in 1857 sent the frigate "Novara" on a trip of scientific discovery around the world.

Carlo Bellosio

He frescoed bacchantes and Maenads with an Aurora in the grand room of the casa Poreti in Milan; also decorative frescoes for the casa Scotti in Ponte San Pietro, for the casa Casati in Como, for the casa dei Conti Leonardi in Novara, in a Medolago in casa dei conti Medolago in Medolago, for the casa dei conti Borromeo in Viggiù; and Pallanza (now part of Verbania as well as Pavia,

Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara

At Bologna, Novara was assisted by Copernicus, with whom he observed a lunar occultation of Aldebaran.

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.

Fra Dolcino

The research of Orioli shows that De Julio Presbitero was actually the name of a wealthy family of Vercelli belonging to the Ghibellines often married with members of the Tornielli family of nearby Novara (Romagnano Sesia), also Ghibellines, so he proposes that Dolcino could be the son of a couple that united members of both families.

FS Class ALn 772

Only two units (3247 and 3326) were kept in active service on the Novara-Varallo Sesia line: on April 12, 1986, the railway administration issued a service order relegating all remaining units to the shed.

Giuseppe Sogni

He painted the ceiling of the Hall of the Society of Gardens in Milan, frescoed in Santa Chiara in Busnago, and in San Pietro in Novara.

Ignazio Collino

He also helped complete the royal tombs for the king of Sardinia, in the church of Superga, and finally the colossal statue of St. Agabus in Novara.

Johann Zelebor

Zelebor, Johnann, August von Pelzeln, Franz Steindachner, and Rudolf Kner, Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde (1861–1876 ("Journey of the Austrian frigate Novara around the Earth") Zoolologischer Thiel.

Karl von Scherzer

He returned to Vienna in the middle of 1855 and, with the support of Archduke Maximilian, became a member of the group of scientists travelling on board the frigate Novara around the world (see Novara expedition).

Luigi Tarisio

He was born at Fontaneto d'Agogna, near Novara, Piedmont, of humble parents and is said to have trained as a carpenter, playing violin as a hobby.

Mandello

Mandello Vitta, a village in the Province of Novara in the region Piedmont

Maria Xaveria Perucona

Maria Xaveria Perucona or Parruccona (Novara, c. 1652 - after 1709 in Galliate) was a nun composer in 17th Century Italy.

San Nazzaro

San Nazzaro Sesia, a comune in the Province of Novara, Piedmont

Uva Rara

Around the communes of Novara, Pavia and Vercelli, Uva Rara is known as Bonarda which has led it to be confused with many of the other grape varieties known as Bonarda, particularly Bonarda Piemontese.

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.