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unusual facts about Rotonda, Basilicata


Solanum aethiopicum

The only place where S. aethiopicum is grown to a significant extent in Europe lies in South Italy, to be precise in Rotonda in the Basilicata, where this plant is of some commercial importance.


A.S.D. Angelo Cristofaro

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Angelo Cristofaro or simply Angelo Cristofaro is an Italian association football club, based in Oppido Lucano, Basilicata.

Aglianico

In Basilicata, Aglianico forms the basis for the region's only DOCG wine, Aglianico del Vulture, and is concentrated around the areas of Matera and Potenza.

Basilicata

In 1485, Basilicata was the seat of plotters against King Ferdinand I of Naples, the so-called "Conspiracy of the Barons", which included the Sanseverino of Tricarico, the Caracciolo of Melfi, the Gesualdo of Caggiano, the Orsini Del Balzo of Altamura and Venosa and other anti-Aragonese families.

Bella Dodd

She was born in Picerno, Basilicata, Kingdom of Italy in 1904 and baptized Maria Assunta Isabella.

Bombino

Bombino nero, an Italian wine grape variety grown in Puglia, Basilicata, Lazio and Sardinia

Castel Lagopesole

Castel Lagopesole, or simply Lagopesole, is a civil parish (frazione) of the municipality (comune) of Avigliano, in Basilicata, southern Italy.

Castrovillari

Castrovillari lies in north of Calabria, close to the borders with Basilicata and within the Pollino National Park.

Chris William Sanchirico

His paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Basilicata, Italy, a region whose contemporaneous poverty and backwardness are depicted in Carlo Levi’s classic memoir, Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1945).

Eugenio Santoro

Born at Castelmezzano, in the province of Potenza (Basilicata), he started as a carpenter but he had to leave his work to go to the front during the second world war.

Federation of the Greens

The Greens are stronger in cities and urban areas (Milan, Venice, Rome, Naples, etc.), in mountain regions, such as Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Aosta Valley, and in some Southern regions, such as Basilicata and Campania.

Lago Nero

Lagonegro, a municipality of the Province of Potenza, Basilicata

Monte Milone

Montemilone a town (municipality), in the Basilicata region of south Italy

Oppido

Oppido Lucano, Italian municipality of the Province of Potenza, Basilicata

Palazzo Rinaldi

Located in the hilltop village of Noepoli, in the Pollino National Park (Basilicata region of Southern Italy), it is open to professional artists of all disciplines.

Pasdeloup Orchestra

Aimed at an audience hitherto absent from evening concerts, the orchestra presented cheap Sunday concerts in the vast rotonda of the Cirque d'hiver in Paris.

Pisticci Painter

The Pisticci Painter was a vase painter who lived in the second half of the 5th century B.C. Many of his artistic works were discovered in Pisticci, a small town a few kilometers from Metaponto, Basilicata, Italy.

Pontifical Academy of Archaeology

The Academy succeeded in obtaining, from Pope Pius IX, a decree for the demolition of the houses on the left side of the Rotonda (Pantheon), and also protested against the digging of new holes in the walls.

Rodolfo Ceccotti

In 1984, he was among the five artists chosen by Leonardo Sciascia for the exhibition ‘Artists and Writers’ held at the Rotonda of the Besana in Milan.

Santarcangelo

Sant'Arcangelo, a town and comune in the province of Potenza (Basilicata), Italy

Soppressata

Soppressata di Basilicata is mainly produced in Rivello, Cancellara, Vaglio and Lagonegro.


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