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8 unusual facts about Tivoli


Cherubino Cornienti

In 1850, he was commissioned a fresco on Christ at Emmaus for the Convent of the Cappuccini of Tivoli.

Francesco Traballesi

In the Town Hall of Tivoli, the ancient Tibur in Latium, are two frescoes by Traballesi (1574), with scenes of The mythic foundation of Tibur.

Gerolamo Theodoli

He also designed the bell tower for Santa Maria dei Miracoli, the church of Santi Marcellino e Pietro in Rome, the church of San Pietro at Vicovaro, near Tivoli, and the altar of the Immaculate Conception in the Cathedral of Tivoli.

Jardin de Tivoli, Paris

There were several similarly named gardens, named after the gardens of the Villa d'Este in Tivoli near Rome, of which none remain today.

Luigi Fontana

Apart from his native town, his works are present in Rome in the basilicas of Santi Apostoli, San Lorenzo in Damaso, San Giovanni in Laterano, Santa Maria Maggiore, Santa Maria sopra Minerva and other palaces, as well as in the cathedrals of Macerata, Montefiascone, and Tivoli.

Parc des Buttes Chaumont

The most famous feature of the park is the Temple de la Sibylle, a miniature version of the famous ancient Roman Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy.

The most famous feature of the park is the Temple de la Sibylle, inspired by the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy, perched at the top of a cliff thirty metres above the waters of the artificial lake.

Sperlonga sculptures

This was found in the pantanella of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli by Gavin Hamilton in about 1769, and subsequently formed one of the Towneley Marbles collection bought by the museum.


After Forever

Doro Pesch - vocals on song "Who I Am" (Release Party @ Tivoli 17. April 2007 Tilburg)

Barbara Angell

On stage she starred again for the Tivoli in Lilac Time with John Larsen and in The Wizard of Oz as Glinda the Good Witch opposite Reg Livermore's Wicked Witch.

Cluster Exploratory

"The cluster will consist of 1,600 processors, several terabytes of memory, and hundreds of terabytes of storage, along with the software, including IBM's Tivoli and open source versions of Google File System and MapReduce".

DCT University Center – Switzerland

In 2003, DCT moved its campus out of the 100-year old Carlton-Tivoli Hotel building and further along the shores of Lake Lucerne to the village of Vitznau.

Dorel Golan

She appeared successfully in recitals at the Salle Cortot in Paris, at the Tivoli Hall in Copenhagen,at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, were she recorded her first CD.She also played in many other important centers.

Fontaine du Fellah

The title refers to an Egyptian fellah, or peasant, but statue appears to be a copy of a Roman statue of Antinous, a favorite of the Emperor Hadrian, which was discovered in the excavation of Hadrian's villa in Tivoli in 1739.

Francesco Nicolosi

He is Artistic Director of the Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Prize and Artistic Director in many important Italian summer festivals such as “I concerti d’Estate a Villa Guariglia” in Vietri sul mare, "Jeux d'art a la Villa d'Este" in Tivoli, "Roccaraso in Musica" and of the International Piano Masterclass in Naples and Rome.

Frank van Straten

In 2002 Straten acted as the Historical Consultant for Graeme Murphy’s ‘dance musical’ Tivoli, performed by the Sydney Dance Company, which premiered at the State Theatre, Arts Centre, Melbourne.

Gudmund Nyeland Brandt

Fountain Terrace, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen (1943) Tivoli fountain terrace (1943)

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) is a Storage Resource Management (SRM) software offering that provides a centralized point of control for managing large-scale, complex heterogeneous storage environments.

Ippolito II d'Este

He had the Villa d'Este built in Tivoli by Mannerist architect Pirro Ligorio, to match the other palaces he was building in Rome.

Jardin de Tivoli, Paris

Étienne-Gaspard Robert opened the third Tivoli in 1826, which survived until 1842 when the rue Ballu and other streets were constructed.

Juan Bautista Aguirre

He was a friend of the bishop of Tivoli, Monsignor Gregorio Bamaba Chiaramonti, future Pope Pius VII.

Kambala School

Frequented by the colonial artist Conrad Martens during the 1840s, extensively renovated by architect John Horbury Hunt in the 1880s, Tivoli features modern dormitory-style living amenities.

Moodabe family

When Thomas O'Brien and his beloved Civic Theatre went bankrupt in 1932, the Moodabe brothers took over O'Brien's other Auckland theatres, including the Princess (later the Plaza), the Rialto in Newmarket, and the Tivoli in Karangahape Road.

Nellie Stewart

In January 1916 she was deeply depressed by grief over the death of George Musgrove, until she was persuaded by Hugh Donald McIntosh to take up work again in a condensed version of Sweet Nell at the Tivoli Theatre.

Niccolò Fortebraccio

Giovanni Vitelleschi was sent against him, but as he was called to quench a revolt in Romagna, Fortebraccio managed to capture Tivoli.

Pope Eugene III

Eugene III appealed for help to Tivoli, Italy, to other cities at feud with Rome, and to King Roger II of Sicily (who sent his general Robert of Selby), and with their aid was successful in making such conditions with the Roman citizens as enabled him for a time to hold the semblance of authority in his capital.

Pragma Systems

The software development industry in Austin, Texas welcomed Pragma Systems and in a short period of time Pragma Systems was developing networking software for companies like IBM, Tivoli, and Tandem.

Robin D. Cook

His many local commitments include being a Trustee of the Tivoli Theatre, a Trustee of the Friends of Victoria Hospital Wimborne, a volunteer at the Priest's House Museum, a member of Wimborne Militia and he is a representative for the council on the Citizens Advice Bureau Management Committee and is the Civil Protection Officer.

San Gregorio da Sassola

San Gregorio da Sassola borders the following municipalities: Capranica Prenestina, Casape, Castel Madama, Ciciliano, Poli, Rome, Tivoli.

South Moor

There is an infant school and junior school known as "Greenland school" in the middle of the village and at one time there were two cinemas ( well used), the Arcadia and the Tivoli.

Temple of the Sibyl

The structure was modeled after the similar monopteral "Temple of Vesta" at Tivoli, Italy, the site of the Tiburtine Sibyl, which was well known throughout Europe in engravings.

The Eight Lancashire Lads

His brother, Richard White was for a period the choreographer of the female chorus at the Tivoli revue theatre in Sydney.

Thelma Scott

She continued to act in the theatre, performing with Ray Milland in Hostile Witness at Sydney's Tivoli Theatre in 1967, and in 1968 acted in J.C. Williamson's production of Spring and Port Wine, playing Daisy Crompton opposite Alfred Marks.

Tivoli Gardens, Kingston

Tivoli Gardens, a political Garrison, is a West Kingston neighbourhood in Kingston, Jamaica.

Walter de Frece

He then opened the New Tivoli Theatre of Varieties in Lime Street, Liverpool, in December 1906, but being so close to the Empire Palace of Moss and Stoll, the New Tivoli never made a profit.

Yaron Kohlberg

Kohlberg has also won first prizes in the Parnassos International Competition in Monterrey (Mexico) and the Shostakovich International Competition in Hanover, and was a top prizewinner in other international competitions such as Andorra, Tivoli (Copenhagen) and Grieg (Oslo).


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