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9 unusual facts about Veneto


16th Alpini Regiment

The main task of the regiment was the training of the recruits for the Alpini regiments based in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions of northern Italy.

Alvise Cornaro

As financial advisor to the Bishop of Padua he secured for Falconetto the commission to design the Villa dei Vescovi ("Villa of the Bishops") at Luvigliano, in the Eugaean Hills, as well as his own Villa Cornaro in Este.

Ateste

Ateste (modern Este, Italy) was an ancient town of Venetia, at the southern foot of the Euganean hills, 43 feet above sea-level and 22 miles southwest of Patavium (modern Padua).

Bagnoli Airfield

Bagnoli Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in northeast Italy, which is located approximately 4 km south of Conselve in the Province of Padua in the Italian region of Veneto.

Bartolomeo Tromboncino

Until around 1500 he lived and worked in Mantua, though he made occasional trips to adjacent cities such as Ferrara, Este, Vicenza, Milan, and Pavia, especially when he was in trouble.

Gittern

Charles V of France's court recorded four, including one of ivory, while the courts of Este and Ferrara recorded the hiring of gittern masters.

Noi credevamo


Mazzini, with plenty of time to himself, concocts a plan for a new clash against the Emperor Napoleon III to re-establish an Italian control of Piedmont, with the incentive to snatch the Veneto for the power of Austria.

Villa Trissino

Villa Trissino is the name of many villas of the Trissino family in the province of Vicenza, Veneto region of Italy.

Zélia Gattai

Gattai's father, Ernesto Gattai, was an anarchist and came from the region of Veneto, following the social anarchist experiment called Colônia Cecília.


38th Infantry Division Puglie

The division filled its ranks with men drafted in eastern Veneto and Friuli, with a majority of soldiers hailing from the towns of Sacile and Vittorio Veneto.

A.C. Delta Porto Tolle

Associazione Calcio Delta Porto Tolle or simply Delta Porto Tolle is an Italian association football club, based in Porto Tolle, Veneto.

A.C. Marano A.S.D.

Associazione Calcio Marano Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica is an Italian football club based in Marano Vicentino, Veneto.

A.C.D. Trissino-Valdagno

Associazione Calcio Dilettantistica Trissino-Valdagno is an Italian football club based in Trissino and Valdagno, Veneto.

A.S.D. Cerea 1912

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Cerea Calcio 1912 or simply Cerea is an Italian association football club based in Cerea, Veneto.

A.S.D. Portogruaro

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Portogruaro (usually referred to as Portogruaro) is an Italian association football club, based in Portogruaro, Veneto.

A.S.D. Union Quinto

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Union Quinto is an Italian association football club located in Quinto di Treviso, Veneto.

A.S.D. Universitaria Albignasego

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Universitaria Albignasego (formerly CUS Calcio Padova) is an Italian association football club located in Albignasego, Veneto.

A.S.D. Vittorio Falmec San Martino Colle

Vittorio Falmec is a football club based in Vittorio Veneto, founded in 1922, initially under the name Associazione Sportiva Vittorio Veneto adopting the colors red and blue.

Alliance for Veneto

Alliance for Veneto (Alleanza per il Veneto, AdV) was a short-lived centrist political party in Veneto, that was the section of Alliance for Italy (ApI) in Veneto.

Massimo Calearo, industrialist and deputy elected for the Democratic Party, launched AdV in April 2010 as a centrist competitor of Liga VenetaLega Nord, the dominant political force in Veneto.

Bassano Virtus 55 S.T.

Bassano Virtus 55 Soccer Team is an Italian association football club, based in Bassano del Grappa, Veneto.

Carnic and Gailtal Alps

The main ridge of the Carnic Alps forms the Austrian-Italian border and stretches from prominent Mt. Helm near Sexten at the tripoint of East Tyrol, South Tyrol and Veneto to the Canal Valley at Tarvisio in the east.

Christian Giantomassi

Christian Giantomassi (born April 22, 1973 in Badia Polesine, Veneto) is a former professional boxer from Italy, who won a bronze medal in the lightweight division (– 60 kg) at the 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Vejle, Denmark, alongside Vahdettin İşsever from Turkey.

Flag of Veneto

- the colors of the decorations are not only red and gold, but dark blue has been added, as this colour was acknowledged as a symbol of the Veneti in the past (blavum seu venetum colorem 'blue, that is, Veneto colour')

Franco Frigo

Franco Frigo (born 13 August 1950 in Cittadella) is an Italian politician from Veneto.

Frederick Rolfe

His seminary, the Scots College, was quite close to Plüschow's studio in via Sardegna, just off the via Veneto, and when Rolfe was expelled from the College and came under the benevolent patronage of the Duchess Sforza Cesarini, he began his own photographic efforts in imitation of von Gloeden and Plüschow.

Gastone Moschin

Born in San Giovanni Lupatoto (Veneto), he began his career in the 1950s as theatre actor, first with the Stable Theater in Genoa and then with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in Milan.

History Teachers' Association of Victoria

Collingwood Football Club became a difficult venue once poker machines were installed, and after a long search a move was made to the Veneto Club in Bulleen.

Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto

Twelve anti-aircraft Ansaldo 90/53 guns taken from the Vittorio Veneto were reused by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) as armament of its Žirje Island coastal artillery battery.

Leonardo Padrin

Leonardo Padrin (Ponso, 29 September 1959) is an Italian politician from Veneto.

Luigi Menti

Luigi Menti died on 11 December 2013, aged 79, in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy.

Marzemina bianca

As Marzemino was first documented growing in the Veneto in 1553, more than a hundred years before Marzemina bianca, ampelographers now believe that Marzeminia bianca is the offspring with further DNA profiling showing that the Soave grape Garganega (described by the Italian writer Pietro de' Crescenzi in the 13th century) likely being the other parent.

Matteo Grassotto

Matteo Grassotto (born 14 March 1980 in Asolo, Veneto) is an Italian racing driver.

Monte Berico

Some other sites that can be viewed are the foothills of the Alps (Dolomites), along with the Lessini hills, Venetian Lagoon, Mount Pasubio, Piave River, and many other sites in the Veneto.

Porrettana railway

On 14 March 1856, an agreement was signed in Vienna between the Austrian Empire, the Duchy of Parma and Modena, The Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Papal States for the construction of the Central Italian Railway (Italian: Strada Ferrata dell'Italia Centrale) from Piacenza to Pistoia, with a branch to Mantua and anticipating strategic links with the existing lines of Lombardy and Veneto and extensions to Rome.

Priabonian

The stage is named afted the small hamlet of Priabona in the community of Monte di Malo, in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

Renzo Marangon

Renzo Marangon (born 29 July 1955 in Porto Tolle) is an Italian politician from Veneto.

Riviera del Brenta

Riviera del Brenta is the coastline of the Naviglio del Brenta (Brenta River) which runs from Padua and through the Veneto countryside, through Stra, Fiesso d'Artico, Dolo, Mira, Oriago and Malcontenta to Fusina (which is part of the comune of Venice), in the North-east of Italy.

Robert I. Levy

Robert I. Levy (b 1924, d. 29 August 2003, Asolo, Veneto, Italy) was an American psychiatrist and anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Tahiti and Nepal and on the cross-cultural study of emotions.

Ronche

Ronche, in the Oderzo municipality in Treviso province in the Veneto region

Ronche, in the Lamon municipality in Belluno province in the Veneto region

Rovigo railway station

Trains depart frequently from Rovigo for Venezia and Bologna, and there are numerous regional trains (R) to every part of the Veneto/Lombardy/Emilia-Romagna area, especially during peak hours.

S.S.D. Domegliara

Società Sportiva Dilettante Domegliara is an Italian association football club located in Domegliara, a frazione of Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella, Veneto.

S.S.D. Eurotezze

Società Sportiva Dilettante Eurotezze was an Italian association football club located in Tezze sul Brenta, Veneto.

Sebastiano Baggio

Born in Rosà, Veneto, Sebastiano was ordained a priest on 21 December 1935, at the age of 22, in Vicenza.

Seganfredo

Being a linguistically Italian surname in its present form, the members of this family are mostly concentrated on the north of Italy, particularly on the province of Vicenza (Veneto), as well as many having immigrated from Europe to the south of Brazil, especially to the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Silvio Appiani

In 1914, Calcio Padova wins the Campionato Veneto-Emiliano di Promozione and go to the Prima Categoria dell'Italia Settentrionale culminating in fourth place behind Vicenza, Hellas Verona and Venezia.

Southgate College RLFC

Southgate Rugby League Football Club is a rugby league team based in Southgate College which is located in the London Borough of Enfield that usually competes in Veneto's Nines.

Stanislao Gastaldon

His father was an engineer from Lerino, a village near Torri di Quartesolo in the Veneto region of Italy.

The Via Veneto Papers

The first, The Via Veneto Papers, is an evocation of the Rome of La Dolce Vita, of the early stages in the writing and the realising of the film itself, and, through a series of brilliant little sketches, a commemoration of the aging Italian poet Vincenzo Cardarelli, skeptical survivor from an earlier time, representative of an altogether different life.

Tiziano Siviero

Tiziano Siviero (born 28 October 1957 in Bassano del Grappa, Veneto) is an Italian rally co-driver.

Tolle

Porto Tolle is a town in the province of Rovigo, Veneto, Italy.

Toni Ortelli

Antonio "Toni" Ortelli (November 25, 1904, Schio, Italy – March 3, 2000, Schio) was an Italian alpinist, conductor and composer from the Veneto.

Valentino nero

Valentino nero is a red Italian wine grape variety that is grown in the Piedmont wine region of northwest Italy but was initially bred at the Conegliano research center in the Veneto.

Venetian regional election, 2005

Also the post of Vice President of Veneto went to a lighista, Luca Zaia, in place of Fabio Gava (Forza Italia), who had been also Minister of Health in second term.

Veronese Riddle

Michele A. Cortelazzo and Ivano Paccagnella say that the plural -es of boves may well be considered Ladin (a Romance language spoken in parts of Veneto, Trentino and South Tyrol) and therefore not Latin, but romance.

Villa Pisani

However, Villa Pisani usually refers to a large, late baroque villa at Stra on the mainland of the Veneto, northern Italy.


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