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unusual facts about Trevi, Umbria



2003 Italian Formula Three season

Fausto Ippoliti of Ombra Racing won race at Binetto, race at Magione and another two podiums and ultimately clinched the title.

2010 Auto GP season

A two-day test was held over November 17–18 at the Autodromo dell'Umbria in Magione, giving drivers 30 laps at the wheel of the series' Lola B05/52.

2010 Formula Abarth season

Having started the season at RP Motorsport, Stefano Colombo ended the season as Iaquinta's team-mate, and wrapped up second place with a class second behind Iaquinta at Monza, having taken two wins during the season at Misano and the only win at Magione, as the first race saw no finishers from the National Trophy.

A.C.D. Torgiano

Associazione Calcio Dilettantistica Torgiano is an Italian association football club located in Torgiano, Umbria.

A.S. Gualdo Casacastalda

Associazione Sportiva Gualdo Casacastalda is an Italian association football club, based in Gualdo Tadino, Umbria and also representing Casacastalda, a frazione of Valfabbrica, Umbria.

Alice Taticchi

Alice Taticchi (born June 25, 1990 in Perugia, Umbria, Italy) is an Italian fashion model, beauty pageant contestant, and the winner of the fourth cycle of Italia's Next Top Model.

Andrea Camassei

He was born in Bevagna in Umbria to parents of modest means, Angelina d' Anton Maria Angeli and Lorenzo.

Andrew Surmani

He has toured throughout the USA, Europe and Japan, and has performed in the Istanbul International Jazz Festival (Turkey), Jazz à Juan (Juan les Pins, France), Umbria (Italy), Wigan (England) and the Lake Biwa (Japan) jazz festivals.

Annunciation of Cortona

There are also scenes of the theme combined with Adoration of the Magi at the Museum San Marco, and a diptych in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria.

Arnaldo Rosin

Rosin was born in the town of Cittadella near Padua but his family moved to Umbria when he was very young.

Art Monastery

In the 2010 Lonely Planet guide to Tuscany and Umbria, the Art Monastery Project is mentioned three times.

Assetto Corsa

It offers one car, Lotus Elise SC, and one track, Autodromo dell'Umbria in Magione, Italy, as well as two playing modes, free practice and time attack.

Bartolomeo di Tommaso

Bartolomeo di Tommaso was a painter who flourished in the early part of the 15th century, and was of Umbro-Sienese school.

Cantalupo di Bevagna

Cantalupo is a frazione of Bevagna in the Italian region Umbria located at an elevation of 201 m on the Torrente Attone, a tributary of the Topino River.

Fountains of Rome

The third section, The Trevi Fountain at Noon (La fontana di Trevi al meriggio), is ushered in by a triumph giving news of a recent victory by the god Neptune.

Gerardo Dottori

Dottori's' principal output was the representation of landscapes and visions of Umbria, mostly viewed from a great height.

Giovanni Antonio Antolini

He continued to author works on both hydraulics and architecture including proposals for straightening the River Topino in Umbria and designs for a bridge over the Tiber at Città di Castello.

Giuliano Mignini

In June 2010 Mignini was the prosecutor involved in the case of porn star Brigitta Bulgari who was arrested and held for 11 days after being charged with child pornography; this followed the surfacing of mobile phone video showing 15-year-old boys touching her in her private parts while she performed as a stripper in an Umbria night club.

Grechetto

In Italy, the Grechetto grape is found in DOCs of the central region-most notably Umbria's Orvieto region as well as the DOCs of Torgiano and Colli Martani.

Heraclianus

The second version sees Heraclius defeated at Utriculum (maybe Oriculum, in Umbria, halfway between Rome and Ravenna), in a battle with 50,000 deaths, then fleeing to Carthage, where he would be put to death by envoys sent by Honorius in the temple of Memoria.

Hieronymus Medices

1569 in Camerino, Umbria, the origin of his surname de Medicis a Camerino.

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.

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.

John H. Secondari

According to the passenger list, John Secondari was born in Bevagna, Umbria, Italy, not Rome.

Jordanus of Giano

Jordanus of Giano (1195 – after 1262) was an Italian Minorite from Giano in the Valley of Spoleto.

Litfiba

Litfiba's biggest tour was immortalized on a VHS, whose profits went to the victims of earthquakes in Umbria and Marche regions, and on a double live CD both titled Croce e delizia.

Magliano Sabina

Magliano Sabina borders the following municipalities: Calvi dell'Umbria, Civita Castellana, Collevecchio, Gallese, Montebuono, Orte, Otricoli.

Mario Santoro-Woith

Woith-Santoro was born in Todi, Umbria and attended the University of Rome “La Sapienza” from 1988 to 1993 where he studied Visual Anthropology.

Mezzastris

Mezzastris (Mezastris, Mezzastri) was the family name of two Umbrian painters who worked in the Foligno area.

Perugia Altarpiece

The Perugia Altarpiece (Italian: Pala di Perugia) is a painting by the Italian early Renaissance painter Fra Angelico, housed in the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria of Perugia, Italy.

Roman Umbria

Although it passed the name on to the modern region of Umbria, the two coincide only partially.

Sagrantino di Montefalco

Under Italian law, the term "Montefalco Sagrantino Secco" defines a wine obtained exclusively from Sagrantino grapes, produced exclusively in the Province of Perugia, in the Umbria region of central Italy (although not necessarily in the comune of Montefalco).

Salvatore Sciarrino

By this time his compositional career had expanded to the point where he could withdraw from teaching, and he moved to Città di Castello, in Umbria, where he has lived ever since.

San Savino

Costa San Savino, in the comune of Costacciaro in the Province of Perugia, Umbria (Italy)

Scheggia

Scheggia Pass, a pass in the Italian region Umbria that divides the Northern and Central Apennines.

Scheggia e Pascelupo, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Perugia in the Italian region Umbria.

Theodor Aufrecht

With Kirchhoff, he collaborated in the publication of Die umbrischen Denkmäler (Umbrian memorials, 1849–51).

TREVI

TREVI was an intergovernmental network - or forum - of national officials from ministries of justice and the interior outside the European Community framework created during the European Council Summit in Rome, 1–2 December 1975.

It ceased to exist when it was integrated in the so-called Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) pillar of the European Union (EU) upon into force of the Treaty of Maastricht in 1992.

Trevi Fountain

In Season 2, Episode 5 of the anime Strike Witches, in an impromptu tour of Rome, Francesca Lucchini explains to her newfound friend Maria the significance and symbolism of Trevi Fountain.

Trevi, Umbria

Many rivers and canals, none of them very large, run in a general South-to-North direction, converging into a single river near Bevagna.

Umbria

The region is characterized by sweet and green hills and historical towns such as Assisi (a World Heritage Site associated with St. Francis of Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and other Franciscan sites, with works by Giotto and Cimabue), Norcia (the hometown of St. Benedict), Gubbio, Spoleto, Todi, Città di Castello, Orvieto, Cascata delle Marmore, Castiglione del Lago, Passignano sul Trasimeno and other charming towns and small cities.

The Topino, cleaving the Apennines with passes that the Via Flaminia and successor roads follow, makes a sharp turn at Foligno to flow NW for a few kilometres before joining the Chiascio below Bettona.

Usigni

Usigni is a village in Umbria, a frazione of the comune of Poggiodomo in the Province of Perugia a few hundred metres downstream from the source of the Tissino River.


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