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unusual facts about Scanno, Abruzzo


Francesco Calogero

After his father was sentenced to national exile by fascist police, Francesco Calogero spent more than one year (1942) in Scanno, a small Italian village.


2009 Mediterranean Games

The official logo of the 2009 Mediterranean Games featured simple graphical illustrations of mountains and sea of the Abruzzo region, and the Marsican brown bear was chosen as the mascot of the Games.

A.S. Pescina Valle del Giovenco

A.S. Pescina Valle del Giovenco, commonly referred to as simply Valle del Giovenco, was an Italian association football club based in Pescina, Abruzzo.

A.S.D. Luco Canistro

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Luco Canistro was an Italian association football club located in Luco dei Marsi, Abruzzo and that represented also the town of Canistro, Abruzzo.

A.S.D. Miglianico Calcio

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Miglianico Calcio is an Italian association football club, based in Miglianico, Abruzzo.

Abruzzese

Neapolitan language, Abruzzese Orientale Adriatico and Abruzzese Occidentale dialects from the Abruzzo region

Abruzzo region of Italy: Abruzzese is the associated adjective

Aldo Zilli

One of nine children, he was born in the small seaside town of Alba Adriatica in the central Italian region of Abruzzo.

Alphonso D'Abruzzo

Alan Alda, American actor, whose birth name was Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; son of the Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo (above)

Robert Alda, American actor, whose birth name was Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo

Atessa Val di Sangro S.S.D.

Atessa Val di Sangro A.S.D. 2012 is an Italian association football club from Atessa, Abruzzo.

Avezzano Calcio A.S.D.

Avezzano Calcio A.S.D. is an Italian association football club located in Avezzano, Abruzzo.

Castellammare

Castellammare Adriatico, former Italian municipality of Abruzzo region, annexed in the territory of Pescara in 1927

Cellino

Cellino Attanasio, an Italian municipality of the Province of Teramo, Abruzzo

Double Eagle V

Abruzzo and Newman had previously been two of the pilots of Double Eagle II, which in 1978 became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic.

Emilio Baglioni

Born May 4, 1932, in Macchia D'Aboreq, Valle Castellana, Abruzzo, Italy, the son of Domenico Baglioni (1886-1969) an engineer / farmer, and distant relative (great great great great great grandson) of Gian Paolo Baglioni.

Gian Paolo Baglioni

His great, great, great, great, great, great grandson Emilio Baglioni was born in Macchia D'Aboreq, province of Valle Castallana, Abruzzo, Italia in 1932, is a world famous chef, a prize winning Button Accordion musician who lives in Hollywood, California.

Grand Highway of the Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park

Also nearby are the important Abruzzo ski resorts, Prati di Tivo and Prato Selva.

Hamilton, New South Wales

Abruzzo Region of Italy), initially settled in the Islington but they soon expanded into the nearby suburbs of Hamilton and Mayfield.

History of mining in Sardinia

In the 1930s there was extensive emigration from the mainland during the Fascist government when people from Veneto but also from Marche, Abruzzo and Sicily came to Sardinia to populate the new mining towns founded in the Sulcis-Iglesiente region such as Carbonia and Cortoghiana.

Il Messaggero

It is a national newspaper and the most popular daily newspaper in Rome and central Italy; It provides different local editions for the regions of Lazio, Umbria, Marche, Abruzzo and Tuscany.

Il Tempo

It was founded in Rome, Italy by Renato Angiolillo in 1944 and currently publishes the Rome edition (available nationally) and other five local editions (Latina, Frosinone, Northern Lazio, Abruzzo and Molise).

Islington, New South Wales

Abruzzo region of Italy) settled in the Islington region, primarily due to its proximity to the BHP steel works.

Italian general election, 1946

While all regions of Northern Italy as far as Tuscany and Marches gave a majority to the republic, all regions of Southern Italy from Lazio and Abruzzo voted to maintain the monarchy.

Italian Shepherd

The existence of this breed can be traced back to 1975, when Piero Accettella, of the Little Ranch Kennels, in Cepagatti, in the province of Pescara, in Italy, noticed that, in the surrounding Italian regions of Abruzzo, Umbria, Tuscany, Marche and Northern Lazio, there existed mid-sized dogs with wolf-like features used as livestock herders and known locally as Cane Toccatore.

Italo Gismondi

Elsewhere in Italy Gismondi worked with the Soprintendenza alle Antichità degli Abruzzi and Molise, in Abruzzo and Molise,for the Soprintendeza of Umbria and for the Soprintendenza for excavation in Eastern Sicily.

Johannes de Quadris

He was a priest, and originally from the diocese of Valva-Sulmona, in the vicinity of L'Aquila, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.

Joseph Abruzzo

Additionally, Abruzzo worked with State Representative Joe Saunders to propose the Competitive Workforce Act, which would "update the state's Civil Rights Act of 1992 to include protections against discrimination for reasons of sexual orientation and gender identity," which a University of Florida poll suggested that 73 percent of Floridians supported.

Abruzzo graduated from Lynn University with a degree in international communications in 2003, and joined the United States Coast Guard Reserve later that year, where he worked as a port security specialist.

Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory

MACRO (Monopole, Astrophysics and Cosmic Ray Observatory) was a particle physics experiment located at the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Abruzzo, Italy.

Music of the Trecento

Another late 14th-century composer, probably active in Rome, Abruzzo, and Teramo, was Antonio Zachara da Teramo.

Oreste Recchione

Recchione has two paintings in Abruzzo: St Andrew Fisherman (1870) in the church of the Madonna del Rosario in Palena, and a Holy Family (1902) in Abbey of Monteplanizio at Lettopalena.

Picenze

Picenze is a frazione of Barisciano, in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of Italy, which includes the locality of San Martino, Villa di Mezzo and Petogna.

Pratola

Pratola Peligna, a municipality in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo

Robert Alda

Alda, an American of Italian descent, was born Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo in New York, New York, the son of Frances (née Tumillo) and Antonio D'Abruzzo, a barber born in Sant'Agata de' Goti, Benevento, Campania, Italy.

S.P.D. AmiterninaScoppito

S.P.D. AmiterninaScoppito (usually referred to as simply Amiternina) is an Italian association football club, based in Scoppito, Abruzzo.

Santegidiese Calcio S.S.D.

Santegidiese Calcio Società Sportiva Dilettantistica is an Italian association football club based in Sant'Egidio alla Vibrata, Abruzzo.

Sator Square

The Benedictine Abbey of St Peter ad Oratorium, near Capestrano, in Abruzzo, Italy, has a marble square inscription of the Sator Square.

Scanno Boy

Scanno Boy (1957) is the most successful photograph taken by the Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli.

Scanno, Abruzzo

Situated in the Sagittario Valley and encircled by the Majella mountains Scanno has been immortalised by photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson (1951) and Mario Giacomelli (1957-1959) and, according to Edward Lear, was host to Italy’s most beautiful women (Illustrated excursions in Italy by Lear, Edward, 1846).

Silvio Spaventa

Raffaele Aurini, Spaventa Silvio, in Dizionario bibliografico della gente d'Abruzzo, Ars et Labor, Teramo 1958, now in Nuova Edizione, Andromeda editrice, Colledara 2002;

Stephan Ebn

During the Amiche per l'Abruzzo Concert on 21 June 2009 at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Stephan joined the stage with Gianna Nannini, Laura Pausini and others to benefit the victims of the earthquake in the Abruzzes.

Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr.

D'Alesandro was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Maria Petronilla (née Foppiani) and Tommaso G. D'Alessandro, who were born in Montenerodomo, Abruzzo, Italy.

Torrevecchia

Torrevecchia Teatina, a municipality in the Province of Chieti, Abruzzo

Via Tiburtina

It was built by the Roman consul Marcus Valerius Maximus around 286 BC and later lengthened to the territories of the Marsi and the Equi, in the Abruzzo, as Via Valeria.


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