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6 unusual facts about Piombino


Arcelor

The main production sites of flat steel products are Ghent-Zelzate, Dunkirk, Avilés, Gijón, Fos-sur-Mer, Piombino, Liège, Florange, Bremen, Eisenhüttenstadt and recently São Francisco do Sul in Brazil.

Marcello Squarcialupi

Marcello Squarcialupi (Piombino c.1538-Alba Iulia 1599) was an Italian physician, astronomer, and Protestant exile in Basel, then a Unitarian exile in Transylvania.

Melissa Pasut

In September 2008, they worked together with artist Andrew L. Hooker on her solo dance-for-film project, An Intuitive Conversation, performed on the rocks at Piombino Beach, including underwater camera work.

Piombino Airfield

Piombino Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, which is located approximately 3 km north of Piombino (Provincia di Livorno,Tuscany); about 200 km northwest of Rome.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Massa Marittima-Piombino

Populonia was besieged by Sulla, and in Strabo's time was already declining; later it suffered at the hands of Totila, of the Lombards, and in 817 of a Byzantine fleet.

T. Arthur Cottam

Cottam's film 52 Takes of the Same Thing, Then Boobs was an entrant in the 2010 International Short Film Festival in Piombino, Italy, and was featured in AFI FEST in the same year.


Elba

The island is connected to the mainland via the three ferry companies, Toremar, Moby Lines and Blunavy, all offering routes between Piombino and Portoferraio, the capital located in the north, Cavo, Rio Marina and Porto Azzurro, on the east coast of the island.

Emanuelle Cristaldi

Born in Piombino, Barsotti made her debut in erotic/soft-core cinema, appearing among others in Tinto Brass' Paprika.

Félix Baciocchi

Felice Pasquale Baciocchi (1762–1841), Corsican brother-in-law of Napoleon I Prince of Piombino and Lucca

François Gaffori

However, he was greeted with disdain and forced to stay away from his friend Bacciocchi, the future prince of Lucca and Piombino and husband of Napoleon's sister Elisa.

Gherardo Appiani

He died in 1405, succeeded in Piombino by his son Iacopo.

Kemal Reis

In July 1501 Kemal Reis, accompanied by his nephew Piri Reis, set sail from the port of Modon with a force of 3 galleys and 16 fustas and went to the Tyrrhenian Sea, where he took advantage of the war between Jacopo d'Appiano, ruler of Piombino, and the Papal forces under the command of Cesare Borgia.

Niccolò Ludovisi

Ippolita (1663–1733), Princess of Piombino (1700–1733), married Gregorio II Boncompagni and had issue


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