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unusual facts about Padova



A.S.D. Universitaria Albignasego

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Universitaria Albignasego (formerly CUS Calcio Padova) is an Italian association football club located in Albignasego, Veneto.

The club was founded in 1946 as CUS Calcio Padova, the University of Padua's football club.

Bruno Giuranna

From 1983 to 1992 Bruno Giuranna was Artistic Director of the Padova Chamber Orchestra and of the International Chamber Music Festival in Asolo, Italy, where he now lives.

Dejan Bogdanović

Since living in Italy he has divided his time between his concert activities, playing in the great halls of Italy and Europe, and teaching; In fact he has held numerous courses in Bolzano, Siracusa, Padova, Portogruaro, Trieste, Salerno, Pesaro, Chioggia, Bergamo and his pupils are the prize winners of many important violin and orchestral manifestations and competitions.

Ernesto Padova

Ernesto Padova (17 February 1845 – 9 March 1896) was an Italian mathematician born in Livorno.

Francesca Chiara

At 19 years old she moved from Padova to Milan and started studying music for three years in a music school but then she left it.

Francesco Rossetti

Francesco Rossetti (Trento, 14 September 1833 – Padova, 20 April 1885) was a notable Italian experimental physicist.

Giorgio Treves de'Bonfili

Under his leadership, the Padova dispute over two games total in the Campionato Regionale del Veneto against Vicenza and two exhibition games in the Coppa Esposizione against Milan and Vicenza.

Giovanni di Bernardo Rucellai

Giovanni Rucellai was the Florentine ambassador to Venice when, in 1505, the French king Louis XII in Milan requested that the jurist Filippo Decio be allowed to leave his post at Padova, in the Republic of Venice, and move to Pavia.

Makar of Pécs

The architecture of the altar dedicated to the Holy Cross in the cathedral has clear analogies in the contemporary architecture in Milan, Parma and Padova, while suggests the presence of stonemasons from Lombardy.

Patricia Urquiola

Between 1990 and 1996 she worked for the new product development office of De Padova and with Vico Magistretti signed the products: “Flower”, “Loom sofa”, “Chaise” and “Chaise Longue”.

Prato della Valle

Among the numerous statues in the square, one represents Andrea Memmo, the patrician Venetian known as the provider of Padova.

Renato Pengo

During this period Pengo's most important exhibitions were in Salzburg (Romanischer Keller Gallery), Villach (An Der Stadtmauer), Rovigo (Accademia dei Concordi), Prato (International Exhibition of New Tendencies), Padova (Stevens Gallery, "Matrici e immagini"); Pengo also taught photography during this period.

Scrovegni Chapel

Giuliano Pisani, L’ispirazione filosofico-teologica nella sequenza Vizi-Virtù della Cappella degli Scrovegni, «Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova», XCIII, 2004, Milano 2005, pp.

Sean Rush

At age 19, Rush became only the second American to be signed by a team in Italy's top two divisions, Serie B side Treviso – the first was Alexi Lalas who played for Padova.

Sergio Zanni

1995 – Circolo degli artisti, Faenza; La pittura e la scultura fantastica e visionaria, Centro culturale di esposizione e comunicazione "Le Zitelle", Venezia; Biennale del Bronzetto, Padova; Galleria Stadmaeuer, Villach, (Austria)

Sławek Jaskułke

He has taken part in world’s greatest festivals, including: North Sea Jazz Festival, Berlin Jazz Fest, Red Sea Jazz Festival, Padova Jazz Festival, Garana International Jazz Festival and the Jazz Jamboree.

Terrell Stone

His solo recordings include a compact disc of the solo music of Johann Paul Schiffelholz (misattributed to Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello) for gallichon, a 3 CD box set containing partitas composed by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute from the Warsaw manuscript, and a CD containing music of 16th century Paduan lute composers recorded in the famous anatomical theater of the "Università degli Studi di Padova" (University of Padua).


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