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32 unusual facts about Udine


1973–74 FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup

KK Crvena Zvezda defeated Spartak Brno in the final, held in Udine, to become the first Yugoslav team to win the competition, after unsuccessful appearances by KK Crvena Zvezda itself and Jugoplastika Split in the two previous finals.

Adam Bajalics von Bajahaza

When Bonaparte hustled the army of Archduke Charles out of Italy in the spring of 1797, Bajalics led part of the right wing in its retreat from Udine in present-day Italy toward Villach in modern Austria.

Alberto do Carmo Neto

In January 2005, after just played 2 league matches for the Udine club, he joined another Serie A side Siena.

Alexander Alexanderovich Lieven

Lieven was active in efforts to reconstruct the Imperial Russian Navy, but died near Udine railway station in Italy while returning from a vacation in Venice while aboard a train for St Petersburg.

Andrea Centazzo

Andrea Centazzo (born 1948 in Udine) is an Italian-born American percussionist and composer of minimal music.

Antisemitism in 21st-century Italy

January 31, 2013 - Udine – an antisemitic blasphemous inscription, “the Shoah must go on”, was sprayed in town.

Caproni Ca.3

The accident occurred at the conclusion of a flight to Campo Formido near Udine to Bratislava (capital of Slovakia).

Colloredo-Mansfeld

Allegedly one Liebhart (Liobardo) of Waldsee came to Italy attendant King Conrad II and about 1031 was enfeoffed by Patriarch Poppo of Aquileia with Mels Castle near Udine in Friuli.

Daniele Zanettovich

Successful as an academic as well as a professional composer, Zanettovich was a professor of composition at the conservatory Jacopo Tomadini in Udine until retiring in 2009.

Domenico Fossati

He distinguished himself as a painter of architecture and a decorator, and his works are to be met with in the theatres and palaces of Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Udine, Monza, and Gratz, and in the Scala at Milan.

Ernesto Rubin de Cervin

From 1965 to 1985 he taught; first solfege at the Liceo musicale in Udine, then didactic, analysis and composition at the Venice Conservatory.

Fausto Antonioli

Around 1850 he settled in Udine, where he held a teaching post in the local arts and crafts school.

Francesco Goffriller

The brother or possibly the son of Matteo Goffriller, he started his working life as a luthier in Venice from approximately 1709 until 1714, and moved to Udine in 1714.

Giacopo Belgrado

Giacopo Belgrado, (Udine November 16, 1704; died in the same city, March 26, 1789) Italian Jesuit and natural philosopher.

Giovanni Martino Cesare

Giovanni Martino Cesare (Udine, c.1590 – Munich, 6 February 1667) was a composer and cornett player.

Girolamo Dalla Casa

Nothing is known about his life prior to his arrival at Venice, but he was probably born at Udine sometime before the middle of the 16th century.

Ippolito Chamaterò

In 1565 he was in Vicenza; 1566, Treviso; and he held a longer post as maestro di cappella in Udine from 1567 to 1570, and then again from 1574 to 1577, though his whereabouts between 1570 and 1574 are unknown.

James of Ireland

After Odoric's death, the commune of Udine, (Friuli in north-eastern Italy), voted a sum of money to James for travelling with their fellow citizen.

Jean-Baptiste Dortignacq

::1st, Stage 2 (Udine - Bologna) 322 km (first victory of a non-Italian racer in the Giro)

José Zanier

José Zanier (Udine, Italy, September 18, 1905 – Mar del Plata, Argentina January 30, 1973) was an Italian engineer and pioneer in the construction of thermo-electric power stations supplied by diesel motors.

Kazuhiro Maeda

He compete twice at world level for Japan in 2007: he finished seventeenth in the 10,000 metres at the 2007 World Championships and then came 30th at the 2007 IAAF World Road Running Championships in Udine.

Lambert Courtois

Three further posts are known: a three-year stint in Udine lasting until 1573, and similar posts in Treviso (1578–79) and Vicenza (1582-83).

Lornah Kiplagat

On 14 October 2007, Kiplagat set a new half marathon world record of 1:06:25 at the World Road Running Championships at Udine, Italy, while defending the title she first won in 2006.

MobileHCI

In 2003 the conference was organized by Luca Chittaro in Udine, Italy.

Odion Ighalo

Ighalo continued playing with Granada in the following years, still owned by the Udine side.

Parma violet

The d'Udine Parma violet features large, bluish-lavender flowers and a strong perfume.

Pietro Zorutti

Much of his Friulian poetry was based around the middle class dialect of Udine, where he spent much of his life.

Reggiane Re.2007

After the war, Longhi tried to conduct experiments with two Junkers Jumo 004 engines that were left in Udine airport after the German defeat.

Thornbridge Brewery

Thornbridge's beers were originally brewed by Martin Dickie, a graduate of the International Centre for Distilling and Brewing at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and Stefano Cossi, a graduate in Food Science and Technology at Udine University, Italy.

Titular Archbishop of Aquileia

In 1751 with the 6 July bull Injunctio Nobis, the Pope Benedict XIV divided the patriarchate into two archdioceses; one at Udine, with Venetian Friuli for its territory, the other at Gorizia, with jurisdiction over Austrian Friuli.

War and the Future

The second part, titled "The War in Italy (August 1916)," describes the city of Udine and the mountain warfare of the Isonzo front as well as visits to Verona, Venice, and Milan.

Zoran G. Jančić

He was also finalist at the International Pianists Competition in UdineItaly.


Alessia Trost

On 20 January 2013 she set her personal best, third Italian best measure of all-time (after two female Italian champions, Antonietta Di Martino 2.04 m and Sara Simeoni 2.01 m), with 1.98 m in Udine, Italy.

Andrea di Bertholotti

He seems to have contracted for altar-pieces and mural decorations at Udine, San Vito, and the surrounding towns, up to 1490.

Irene di Spilimbergo

Born in Spilimbergo (in the Province of Pordenone), a small town about thirty kilometers northwest of Udine, by report she demonstrated her artistic abilities at a young age.

Kyle Hill

During the 2007–08 season, Hill played five games with KK Bosna from Sarajevo and he then returned to Udine.

Mohammed Abduh Bakhet

His personal best times are 29:18.76 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing; 1:01:38 hours in the half marathon, achieved at the 2007 World Road Running Championships in Udine; and 2:13:19 hours in the marathon, achieved in September 2009 in the Toronto Marathon.

Nicolaus of Luxemburg

The very year of his establishment, he had to face an attack by Henry III, Count of Gorizia, who destroyed Cassacco, and by Albert II of Austria, who occupied Carnia, Venzone, Udine, Gemona and besieged Cividale.

Philip Grausman

He has also contributed to the Art in Embassies Program through the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. His work is included in various private, museum, and university collections, such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Louis B. Mayer Foundation, Los Angeles; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Udine, Italy.

Pietro Baratta

Born in Carrara, Tuscany, he worked in Venice and Udine, at the villas on the mainland and as a landscape architect.

Preondactylus

It contains a single known species, Preondactylus buffarinii, which was discovered by Nando Buffarini in 1982 near Udine in the Preone valley of the Italian Alps.

Treviso Centrale railway station

The main destinations are Calalzo, Venezia, Trieste, Udine, Vicenza, Portogruaro and Milano.