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6 unusual facts about Rovigo


2011 Women's Six Nations Championship

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Albert Azzo II, Margrave of Milan

Alberto Azzo II (997 or July 10, 1009, Modena – August 20, 1097, Modena), Margrave of Milan, and Liguria, Count of Gavello and Padua, Rovigo, Lunigiana, Monselice, and Montagnana, aka, Albertezzo II, was a powerful nobleman in the Holy Roman Empire.

Dead Ideas

During 1994, the band performed at a festival held in the Italian town Rovigo, organized to raise funds for restoring the Sarajevo city library.

Music of Veneto

Rovigo is well known for its love of opera and is the site of the famous Teatro Sociale, built in 1819.

Politics of Veneto

Only two provinces have been traditionally governed by the centre-left (Venice and Rovigo), while Belluno is a swing province.

Vincenzo de Vit

He made his studies at Padua, was ordained priest in 1836, in 1844 became librarian of the Academia dei Concordi at Rovigo and canon of the cathedral.


Abraham Rovigo

Abraham Rovigo (born ca. 1650 in Modena, died 1713 in Mantua) was a Jewish scholar, rabbi and kabbalist.

Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri

She has excavated extensively in Italy, including major excavations at Osteria dell'Osa, Castiglione, Fidenae, as well as excavations at Frattesina di Fratta Polesine (Rovigo), and Specchia Artanisi di Ugento.

Anne Jean Marie René Savary

Anne Jean Marie René Savary, 1st Duc de Rovigo (26 April 1774 – 2 June 1833), French general and diplomat, was born at Marcq in the Ardennes.

Elections in Veneto

Rovigo, the southernmost province, was influenced by nearby "red" Emilia-Romagna.

Jules Roy

He was born in Rovigo, Algeria, and spent his childhood on the farm of his maternal grandparents, the Pâris, petits colons who lived at the village of Sidi Moussa, about eight kilometres north of the town.

Lucio Gregoretti

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Solistes Européens (Luxembourg), Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, ISCM Buchartest, Festival Pergolesi-Spontini (Jesi), Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti (Naples), Progetto Sonora (Cologne), Todi Music Fest (Todi), Klangspectrum (Villach); and they are regularly performed worldwide in contemporary music festivals.

Mantova railway station

The most important destinations are Monselice, Rovigo, Verona Porta Nuova, Modena, Milano Centrale, Codogno and Cremona.

Polesine

The rulers of the whole area (except for the new delta of the Po) were the Este; the area was formerly named County of Gavello, but two centuries after the disaster and due to the decline of the Abbey of Gavello it started being named County of Rovigo.

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.

Rovigo railway station

Trains depart frequently from Rovigo for Venezia and Bologna, and there are numerous regional trains (R) to every part of the Veneto/Lombardy/Emilia-Romagna area, especially during peak hours.

Tolle

Porto Tolle is a town in the province of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy.


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