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28 unusual facts about Turin


Abou Diop

Diop arrived in Turin from Senegal in early 2011 on trial, convincing Torino to sign him on a permanent basis.

Angelo de Gubernatis

Count Angelo de Gubernatis (1840–1913), Italian man of letters, was born at Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology.

Aurora Pavlovna Demidova

Princess and Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova (2/3 November 1873, Kiev – 28 June (OS: 16 June) 1904, Turin) was a Russian noblewoman of the Demidov family.

Automotrice à grande vitesse

The company planned to launch a variety of services on the Turin - Milan - Bologna, Rome - Venice, and Bologna - Florence - Rome - Naples high-speed lines, with some trains from Naples running to Bari.

Avro Baby

On 31 May 1920 he made a non-stop flight from Croydon to Turin in 9 hours 30 minutes - a flight of 655 mi (1,050 km) and celebrated at the time as "the most meritorious flight on record".

Carlo Emilio Bonferroni

He studied in Turin, held a post as assistant professor at the Turin Polytechnic, and in 1923 took up the chair of financial mathematics at the Economics Institute in Bari.

Ergin Ataman

Ataman had a successful season with Beşiktaş which the team achieved Uleb Cup Quarter Finals held in Turin, Italy; after a stunning undefeated 10 in-a-row win performance in group B.

Fiat Mini platform

Developed at the end of the 90s in Turin, Italy, the Mini platform was designed to be adaptable to the city car of Fiat Group.

Ginban Kaleidoscope

Her goal is to compete in the Winter Olympics in Torino (Turin, Italy).

International Angiology

International Angiology (Int Angiol) is the official medical journal of the International Union of Angiology, the International Union of Phlebology and the Central European Vascular Forum, published for them by Minerva Medica of Turin.

Ippolito Rosellini

They met in Florence in August 1825, during Champollion's journey to study the important Egyptological collections in Turin, Rome and Florence.

Italian city-states

Other city-states were associated to these "commune" cities, like Genoa, Turin and, in the Adriatic, Ragusa.

Loide Kasingo

After taking various courses in Marketing Management in South Africa from 1983-84, Kasingo was sent to Turin, Italy for training at the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Mario Pieri

By 1888 he was assisting in instructing that subject also at the University of Turin.

Palace of Venaria

The Palace of Venaria (Italian: Reggia di Venaria Reale) is a former royal residence located in Venaria Reale, near Turin, in Piedmont, northern Italy.

Parviz Shahbazi

Among other accolades it won a FIPRESCI award at Pusan and the Jury special award at Turin as well as the Best Film award at the Belgrade Author Festival.

Philadelphia City Hall

City Hall has been the world's tallest masonry building since the 1953 collapse of the pinnacle of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin.

Quattro pezzi sacri

The first performance in Italy, again without the Ave Maria, was conducted in Turin on 26 May 1898 by Arturo Toscanini who had talked to Verdi.

Rai Radio FD 5

Radio FD 5, unlike its sister channel Radio FD 4, can also be heard on FM in five Italian cities: Rome (on 100.3 MHz), Turin (101.8), Milan (102.2), Naples (103.9), and Ancona (106.0).

Raymond Rogers

To the general public, however, he was best known for his work on the Shroud of Turin.

Sandro Ivo Bartoli

The same year, he founded in London Opera Etcetera, a series of concerts devoted to the non-vocal music of opera composers, and the Lyric Club Renato Bruson of Turin awarded him the Gina Rosso Prize for his work in the arts.

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

The film opens with Major Wright fighting alongside Italian partisans in a town near Turin.

The Porridge Men

In 2005, team GBR Figure-Skaters John and Sinead Kerr (from Scotland) chose three tracks from Planet Porridge as the soundtrack to their performances at the British Championships, the European Championships and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

Tiszaeszlár Affair

Lajos Kossuth, then living in exile at Turin, raised his powerful voice to castigate the action of the authorities and to deprecate this stirring up of anti-Jewish prejudices.

Turin, Alberta

Sharing its name with Turin, Italy, an Olympic flag was erected in the hamlet to coincide with the 2006 Winter Olympics.

WiBro

February 10, 2006: Telecom Italia, the dominant telephony and internet service provider in Italy, together with Korean Samsung Electronics, has demonstrated to the public a WiBro network service on the occasion of the 2006 Winter Olympics, held in Turin, with downlink speed of 10 Mbit/s and uplink speed of some hundreds of kbit/s even in movement up to 120 km/h.

Within Me

The video was filmed by Kal Karman from 2 to 3 March 2007 in Turin at Borgo Medievale's park and castle and in the Sardinian desert.

Wo die Zitronen blühen

The waltz was composed during a tour of the composer in Italy where he travelled with the Langenbach Orchestra of Germany and performed the work at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 9 May 1874.


Abadia

The historical name of Abbadia Alpina, a small town near Pinerolo in the Province of Turin, north-west Italy

Alvin Pang

He is also co-editor, along with the poet John Kinsella, of OVER THERE, an anthology of Singapore and Australian poetry, and of DOUBLE SKIN, a bilingual anthology of Italian and Singapore poets (with Turin-based poet and editor Tiziano Fratus).

Angelo Ribossi

an oil canvas, depicting Filippo Maria Visconti con Beatrice di Tenda (exhibited in 1870 at Parma); La vigilia del Natale(exhibited in 1872 at Milan); Il cuoco mal pratico, L' Ammaliatrice, and Il vino del padrone (exhibited in 1880 at Turin); Cuoco mal pratico, Passatempo istruttivo, and Momento di buon umore (exhibited in 1881 at Milan); Momento opportuno (exhibited in 1883 at Milan); Il Babau and Prete artista (exhibited in 1886 at Milan).

Barikot

A large quantity of the artefacts are preserved in the National Museum of Oriental Art of Rome, and the MAO in Turin.

Betty Freeman

Following her graduation she married and had four children, then later divorced and married the Italian sculptor and painter Franco Assetto (1911-1991), with whom she lived half of each year in Turin.

Brazilian Military Cemetery of Pistoia

In their final advance, the Brazilians reached Turin and on 2 May they joined up with French troops at the border in Susa.

Christian Olsson

2004: Turin (Grand Prix) - 17.61 m; Bergen (Golden League) - 17.58 m; Bydgoszcz (European Cup super league) - 17.30 m; Gateshead (Grand Prix) - 17.43 m; Rome (Golden League) - 17.50 m; Paris Saint-Denis (Golden League) - 17.41 m; Zürich (Golden League) - 17.46 m; Brussels (Golden League) - 17.44 m; Berlin (Golden League) - 17.45 m; Monaco (World Athletics Final) - 17.66 m

Cinzano

Beginning that year, the Marone family, Turin industrialists, began to sell shares in the business, culminating in 1992 with an agreement to turn Cinzano International S.A. entirely over to International Distillers & Vintners, a wholly owned subsidiary of Grand Metropolitan.

Debi Thomas

She was also selected by President George W. Bush to be part of the U.S. Delegation for the Opening Ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Italy along with other former Olympians: Dorothy Hamill, Eric Heiden, Kerri Strug, and Herschel Walker.

DeMUG Baroque Ensemble

He has directed the Civico Istituto Musicale ‘A. Onofri’ of Spoleto, Italy, and taught Baroque Violin at the Conservatorio ‘G. Verdi’ in Turin, Italy.

Edoardo Raimondi

In 1884 at Turin, he exhibited paintings depicting scenes of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, and a canvas depicting Fisherman in the Lago di Bieva (Lake Biwa in Japan.

Eva-Maria Gradwohl

Gradwohl later admitted to the media reports that she was heavily involved in a personal relationship with former Nordic skiing coach Walter Mayer, who had been banned by the International Olympic Committee for a blood-doping scandal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and also, for his alleged role in another doping scandal that rocked the Austrian national team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Fiat Compact platform

Developed in Turin, Italy, the new Compact platform was designed to be adaptable to future cars of the Fiat group as well as Chrysler group vehicles.

Flora Perini

Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Francesco Mazzaferro

In March 1994 the Italian police seized 5497 kilogrammes of cocaine (a European record at the time) in Borgaro Torinese near Turin (the investigation was code-named Operation Cartagine).

Gaetano Cima

He studied architecture in Turin and later in Rome at the Accademia delle Belle Arti, where he had as professors Luigi Canina and Luigi Poletti, famous Italian neoclassical architects.

Gaetano Perratone Armandi

In 1880, he exhibited at Turin Giorno che fu, and at the 1883 Exhibition of Rome, he exhibited a Veduta of Gressoney.

Giuseppe Duprà

Particularly in Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia with his elder brother Domenico, Giuseppe Duprà studied in Rome in his youth, as a disciple of Marco Benefial, from 1750, he began painting in the service of King Charles Emmanuel III in the Piedmontese capital, recommended by art enthusiast the Roman cardinal Alessandro Albani.

Guigues V of Albon

Two years later, on 13 January 1155, Guigues was in Rivoli, near Turin, to recognise the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, for his lands.

Hans Ehrich

He mixed his studies with trainee periods at Italian car producers in Milan and Turin, where he, among others, met Giorgetto Giugiaro, who asked him to join the recently established Italdesign company.

Helidon Gjergji

Among many other exhibitions he has participated at the Venice Biennale 52 (curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Manifesta 8; Present Future, Artissima 10 (Turin), curated by Emma Dexter, the Tirana Biennale 1 (curated by Francesco Bonami); Venice Biennale of Architecture 12 (curated by Gjergj Bakallbashi), Madre, (MCA, Naples); Apexart (NYC); National Gallery (Tirana); Villa Arson; Centre d'Art Contemporain (Nice); Lothringer Dreizehn Kunsthalle (Munich); The Kosova Art Gallery.

IDBUS

Currently, iDBUS serves Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Brussels, Gene, Lille, London, Lyon, Marseille, Milan, Nice, Paris, Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and Turin.

Joseph d'Haussonville

His grandfather had been grand louvetier of France; his father was Charles Louis Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville Comte Joseph had filled a series of diplomatic appointments at Brussels, Turin and Naples before he entered the chamber of deputies in 1842 for Provins.

Luigi Astolfi

He was composer and choreographer of La Encantadora de Madrid, successfully performed in the season 1845–46 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, starring Fanny Cerrito and Arthur Saint-Léon.

Luigi Rosa

In 1880 at Turin, he exhibited Interior of the Church of the Frari in Venice, in 1881 at Milan and Venice: Sul Livenza; Maremma; Un rio; Un campo a Venezia e Sul Gorgazzo.

Marco Ponti

In 1995 he attended a script writing course the Holden School in Turin; the following year he worked at the same place under the direction of Alessandro Baricco.

Marie Bonaparte-Wyse

She went often to Turin, the kingdom's capital, where she established yet another salon at the Hôtel Feder.

Marisa Allasio

She left her acting career in 1958, year of her marriage with Count Pier Francesco Calvi di Bergolo (born 2 December 1933, Turin), son of Princess Iolanda di Savoia, first-born of Vittorio Emanuele III and Elena del Montenegro.

Michel Tapié

Tapié organized and curated scores of exhibitions of new and modern art in major cities all over the world, including not only Paris and Turin but also New York, Rome, Tokyo, Munich, Madrid, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Milan, and Osaka.

Movement for Piedmontese Regional Autonomy

The MARP was founded in 1955 in Turin by a group of Piedmontese autonomists led by professor Enrico Villarboito.

Pietro Ayres

He also painted a Hagar in Desert and altarpieces for churches in Turin, Savigliano, Racconigi, and Alessandria.

Pitigrilli

He and his Avocotessa were able to have that changed to Uscio, a small town near the Riviera that was two hours from Turin.

Policarpo Cacherano d'Osasco

Policarpo Cacherano d'Osasco (Cantarana 1744–Turin 27 August 1824) was an officer during the Napoleonic Wars, who rose to the rank of general.

Promeny

The film project is a production Miracle Film & TV and Lumiq Studios (Turin).

Sebastiano Galeotti

Sebastiano Galeotti (1656–1746) was a peripatetic Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Florence, Genoa, Parma, Piacenza, Codogno, Lodi, Cremona, Milan, Vicenza, Bergamo, and Turin.

Sergio Aleati

In honour of this, Aleati's name appears alongside his teammates on a plaque affixed to Motovelodromo Fausto Coppi in Turin, the squad was; eight players that would subsequently accompany Aleati on the 1950 rugby league tour, and also Ausonio Alacevich, Bianco, Campi, Chiosso, Chiosso, Mario Dotti IV, Pescarmona, Piovano, Rocca, Felice Rama (coach), Siliquini, and Sandro Vigliano.

Siege of Haddington

The French ambassador in London, Odet de Selve, heard from a French mercenary serving on the English side that it was almost as impregnable as Turin.

Simca 1000

Dividing his time between Fiat’s Industrial Design Centre at Turin and Simca’s Styling Centre at Poissy, Revello de Beaumont spent the two years between 1959 and 1961 working with Fiat’s Felice Mario Boano, developing the Simca 1000 to production readiness.

Simca 1000 Coupé

Simca also provided the engine and the mechanical underpinnings while the small elegant bodies were built in Turin by Bertone before being transferred for final assembly to Simca’s Poissy plant on specially configured trains.

Spain at the 2006 Winter Olympics

María José Rienda entered the Olympics having won three World Cup events on the season, including the last giant slalom before the Olympic Games, but couldn't repeat this form in Turin, as she finished 13th in the giant slalom.

Tende

Tende has a railway station on the Nice/Ventimiglia-Breil-Cuneo line run by the SNCF, with connecting service from Ventimiglia/Nice in the southwest to Turin to the north.

The Nostalgia of the Infinite

According to art historian Robert Hughes, the painting draws inspiration from one of the spectacular architectural landmarks of Turin, the Mole Antonelliana.

ULEB Cup 2007–08 Final

ULEB Cup 2007–08 Final was the championship game of 2007–08 ULEB Cup played at the Torino Palavela in Turin, Italy.