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52 unusual facts about Verona


A Little Romance

The adolescents and Julius hitch a ride with a married couple (Andrew Duncan and Claudette Sutherland) who are also going to Verona and then to Venice.

With the help of Julius, the two young lovers take a train to Venice and spark an international chase, but they are only able to get to a train station before Verona, as Julius had met some other older men at the train's rest stop and Lauren and Daniel are forced to abandon the train.

A Season with Verona

A Season With Verona is the title of a 2002 book by Verona based British author Tim Parks.

It tells the story of a single season following the fortunes of Italian football club Hellas Verona, and deals especially with Parks' relationship with the infamous hard core Brigate Gialloblù who make up Verona's travelling support.

Abraham Aboab Falero

Toward the close of his life he went to Verona to see his son R. Samuel Aboab, and died there in 1642.

Abraham Saba

According to Azulai ("Chida", Shem ha-Gedolim), who read the anecdote in a work entitled Dibre Yosef, Abraham in journeying from Fez to Verona became sick on the ship in mid-ocean during a great storm.

Alexander Guagnini

Alessandro Guagnini (also known as Aleksander Gwagnin) (born 1538 in Verona – died 1614 in Kraków) was a Polish writer, soldier, chronicler and historian of Italian background.

Alpine route

The first Roman road connecting Italy with today's Germany was the Via Claudia Augusta, completed in 46–47 AD, from Verona to the Reschen Pass, the Inn valley and the Fern Pass to Augusta Vindelicorum, today Augsburg.

Augustan History

In the Life of Probus (Ch.XXIV, 1-3), the author 'Flavius Vopiscus of Syracuse' states that the Emperor's descendants (posteri) fled from Rome and settled near Verona.

Azelio Manzetti

In 1953, at the age of 24 years, he became a professed priest of the Opera of Don Calabria in Verona.

Caproni Ca.4

A Ca.48 airliner crashed at Verona, Italy, on 2 August 1919, during a flight from Venice to Taliedo, Milan, after its wings apparently collapsed in mid-flight at an altitude of 3,000 feet (912 meters).

Chișinău International Airport

Chișinău - Verona Air Moldova, Meridiana Fly with 81,733 (6.7%) passengers transported in 2012

Constantin von Lahnstein

After the death of his mother Francesca, Constantin grew up in Verona, Italy, where he visited an elite boarding school.

Costantino Bresciani Turroni

Costantino Bresciani Turroni (26 February 1882, Verona, Italy – 1963, Milan, Italy) was an Italian economist and statistician.

Domenico Doardo

Doardo played professionally for several teams in his native Italy, including Torino and Hellas Verona, with whom he played in Serie A before dropping down the leagues during his later career.

Francesco Bianchini

Bianchini was born of a noble family at Verona, the Son of Giuseppe Bianchini and his wife, Cornelia Vailetti.

Francesco Portinaro

There were approximately forty members of the academy; unlike the original Accademia Filarmonica in Verona, the members themselves did not seem to do most of the music-making.

In particular, he had an active life working for four secular groups: a group of musicians in Padua, and three humanistic academies in Vicenza, Padua, and Verona.

François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest

In 1795 he joined King Louis XVI's middle brother, the comte de Provence, at Verona as an émigré minister of the House of Bourbon.

Gerard de Ridefort

He was elected Grand Master in late 1184 or early 1185, after the death of Arnold of Torroja in Verona.

Giovanni Marchese di Provera

While the French army focused its attention to the north, Provera's 9,000 men struck at Legnago and Adam Bajalics von Bajahaza's 6,200 Austrians attacked Verona.

Giuseppe Gazzaniga

Born in Verona, Gazzaniga was initially intended for the priesthood at the urging of his devout parents.

History of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

The earliest Christian missionaries were the Verona Fathers, a Roman Catholic religious order that had established southern missions before the Mahdiyah.

International Symposium on Alcohol Fuels

The 2011 meeting (ISAF-XIX) will be held in Verona, Italy.

Ippolito Baccusi

Ippolito Baccusi (also Baccusii, Hippolyti) (c.1550 – 2 September 1609) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance, active in northern Italy, including Venice, Mantua, and Verona.

In 1572 he was maestro di cappella at the church of Sant'Eufemia in Verona, where he may have been associated with the Veronese Accademia Filarmonica.

Ippolito Chamaterò

On January 1, 1562, he became maestro di cappella, music director, of the prestigious Accademia Filarmonica of Verona, succeeding Francesco Portinaro, who had held the post the preceding year.

Jacquet de Berchem

Around 1550 Berchem left Verona, and began seeking employment elsewhere in Italy.

John Bonamego

In 1987, Bonamego coached at Mount Pleasant High School in Michigan and was a player-coach in Europe with the Verona Redskins.

Letters to Juliet

She goes on her pre-honeymoon with her chef fiancé Victor, (Gael García Bernal) to Verona, Italy.

Los Fastidios

It was formed in Verona in 1991, however only one of the original band members remain.

Louis-Alexandre de Launay, comte d'Antraigues

When Provence moved his court-in-exile to Verona, a town controlled by the Venetians, d'Antraigues acted as his minister of police.

Maestro Piero

Piero was possibly from Assisi, and is known to have been in Milan and Verona, employed by the Visconti and della Scala families, respectively; in addition, he may have been in Padua with Antonio della Scala before going to Verona, along with composer Giovanni da Cascia (Giovanni da Firenze).

Mene rhombea

Their greatly valued fossils comes from the laggerstat Monte Bolca, about 30 kilometres north-east of Verona, Italy.

Music of Veneto

The city of Verona is world famous for the Roman amphitheater known as the "Arena", a site that has been hosting musical events since the 16th century, but which is more recently known for the spectacular outdoor staging of Verdi's Aida, an event staged for the first time in 1913.

Ny Carlsberg Brewhouse

The building's facade with its balcony is inspired by Palazzo Bavilaque in Verona.

Nydeggkirche

In 1956 bronze reliefs by Perincioli were inspired by medieval role models in front of San Zeno in Verona and the Cathedral of Hildesheim.

Paul Wilkins Kendall

The division’s second World War II commander, he led it during its assault through Italy, including the capture of Vicenza and Verona.

Petrus Maufer

Instead of returning to Rouen with Morin, he travelled to Italy and became one of the earliest known printers in Padua, Verona, Venice and Modena.

Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints

The western facade is a very close copy of the facade of the Basilica of St. Zeno, Bishop of Verona, in Verona, Italy.

Settimio Ferrazzetta

Settimio Arturo Ferrazzetta O.F.M. (Selva di Progno, Verona, 8 December 1924- Bissau, 26 January 1999) was an Italian-born Guinea-Bissauan Roman Catholic bishop.

Stai Fermo Lì

The music video for "Stai fermo lì" was filmed on January 14 and January 15, 2009 in Verona by Gaetano Morbioli.

The Passions

Timperley left the band in Verona in December 1981, during the Italian leg of their prophetically named "Tour Till We Crack" tour, as a result of "serious political differences".

Theo Hutchcraft

After informing the rest of the band that it was finished, they went on a short break to Verona in Italy, where they claim they discovered the genre Disco Lento.

Timothy Holme

They settled in Verona, where he wrote several non-fiction books (including the biography of Goldoni) and the five Peroni mysteries.

Tomaso Cecchino

After attending the school of acolytes in Verona, he moved in 1603 to Dalmatia, where for a time he was in charge of the music in Spoleto Cathedral (Split Cathedral).

Tower Works

The smaller ornate tower (1866, by Shaw) is styled after the Torre dei Lamberti in Verona.

Verona Island, Maine

The name was changed to Verona (after Verona, Italy) upon its incorporation as a town on February 18, 1861.

Verona, Michigan

Verona, Calhoun County, Michigan, a former unincorporated community now incorporated in the City of Battle Creek, Michigan

Verona, New York

By 1997, this facility evolved into a resort called Turning Stone Resort & Casino.

Walton, Kentucky

There is an elementary school in the neighboring community of Verona, and a high school and middle school within the city of Walton.

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.


A Season with Verona

Aside from detailing Hellas Verona's on the pitch exploits, Parks provides a commentary of political events in Italy at the time (namely the national election held in 2001 that brought Silvio Berlusconi into power).

Academy of Fine Arts, Verona

The Academy of Fine Arts of Verona is also the Center of the National Observatory of Outsider Art, a joint Department with the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology of the University of Verona.

Adalbert of Italy

In 957, Liudolf, Duke of Swabia, invaded Lombardy and caused Berenagar to flee, though Adalbert gathered a large force at Verona.

Air Dolomiti

It started airline operations in January 1991 with a Trieste-Genoa route and in 1992 started international services with flights from Verona to Munich.

Boethius

At a meeting of the Royal Council in Verona, the referandarius Cyprianus accused the ex-consul Caecina Decius Faustus Albinus of treasonous correspondence with Justin I.

Bolzano/Bozen railway station

The station was opened on 16 May 1859, upon the opening of the Trento-Bolzano/Bozen portion of the first stage of the Brenner railway from Verona.

Costa neoRomantica

Her decks are named for well-known European cities: Monte Carlo, Madrid, Vienna, Verona, Paris, London, Copenhagen and Amsterdam.

Crime in Italy

Cities such as Turin, Milan, Monza Brescia, Padua, Vicenza, Venice( Mestre ), Verona, Bologna, Genoa in the North frequently suffer a wide diversity of frequent offences ranging from extensive drug trade, homicides, etc.

Dominic Vallarsi

Vallarsi also assisted Scipio Maffei in his revision of the Maurist edition of St. Hilary (Verona, 1730) and brought out an incomplete edition of the works of Rufinus (Verona, 1745).

Eugenio Miccini

He participated in the most important international exhibitions, such as: Biennale di Venezia (four times), Quadriennale of Rome (as commissar), Stedelijik Museum of Amsterdam, Palazzo Forti of Verona, Palazzo Vecchio of Florence, Museums of Marseille, GAM, Palazzo dei Diamanti of Ferrara.

Gherardo III da Camino

A guelph exponent, in 1278 he signed an alliance with Padua, Cremona, Brescia, Parma, Modena and Ferrara against the Ghibelline Verona.

Istrian stone

When Francesco, son of the architect Jacopo Sansovino, wrote Venetia citta nobilissima et singolare (1580) he emphasized the distinctive quality that Istrian stone and the coppery-red Verona brocatello limestone (so-called Veronese marble) lent to the city.

Licario

As he reached Negroponte, the triarch Giberto II da Verona, Felisa's brother, and John I de la Roche, the Duke of Athens, who were present at the city, rode out with their forces to meet him.

Lombard League

Formed at Pontida on 1 December 1167, the Lombard League included—beside Verona, Padua, Vicenza and Venice—cities like Crema, Cremona, Mantua, Piacenza, Bergamo, Brescia, Milan, Genoa, Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Treviso, Vercelli, Lodi, Parma and even some lords, such as the Marquis Malaspina and Ezzelino da Romano.

Maria Labia

Maria Labia (14 February 1880, Verona-10 February 1953, Malcesine, Lake Garda) was an Italian operatic soprano who was particularly associated with roles of the verisimo repertoire.

Mersad Berber

Kraków Grand Prix in 1997, an Ostend exhibition entitled "Between earth and heaven" and a recent one "Artist of the ideal" in Verona, selected by famous art critic Edward Lucie-Smith, confirmed Berber as one of the most significant contemporary artists.

Niccolò II d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara

After inheriting his lands from Aldobrandino III, he allied with Padua, Verona and Mantua against Bernabò Visconti and, after a meeting at Viterbo, he managed to obtain also the support of Pope Urban V (1367).

Nicola Verlato

Nicola Verlato was born in Verona and began painting at a very early age, learning from Fra' Terenzio a painter in the monastery of Franciscan monks of Lonigo.

Pioltello-Limito railway station

Pioltello-Limito is served by the lines S5 and S6 of Milan suburban railway network, by the regional trains MilanBrescia, and by the RegioExpress trains MilanBergamo and MilanVerona.

Radio Classica

Radio Classica is broadcast locally in the cities of Milan, Rome, Florence, Turin, Verona, Bari, Palermo, Como and Upper Brianza, Latina, Lecco and Genoa.

Siege of Hainburg

He left Hungary on a feigned pilgrimage to Aachen; the real reason was he was not in favor with the Gabriel Rangoni of Verona, the Bishop of Gyulafehérvár.

Sonia Bo

After completing her studies, she taught music at universities in Ferrara, Verona, Pesaro and Piacenza.

Stefano Bernardi

Born in Verona and maestro di cappella at the Verona Cathedral from 1611 to 1622, he later moved to Salzburg, where he was responsible for the music at the Salzburg Cathedral and composed a Te Deum for 12 choirs performed at the cathedral's consecration in 1628.

Umberto Smaila

Born in Verona, in the early 70's Smaila co-founded together with Jerry Calà, Franco Oppini and Ninì Salerno a cabaret-ensemble, "i gatti di Vicolo Miracoli".

Venezuela national baseball team

Italy (Bollate, Bologna, Codogno, Florence, Macerata, Milano, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia, Rimini, San Marino, Torino, Trieste, Verona & Vicenza) and Netherlands (Rotterdam, Haarlem & Amsterdam) serve as hosts of the sixteen teams of the second round (September 14–20), and therefore receive first round byes.

Verona Porta Nuova railway station

A line was opened to Sant'Antonio Mantovano north of the Mincio river near Mantua in 1853 and was connected through to Modena in 1874, where it connected with the line to Bologna.

Villa Barbarigo, Noventa Vicentina

In 1588, the Barbarigo family had commissioned the building from a generally unknown Veronese architect, who was familiar with Andrea Palladio's works.

Villa Mosconi Bertani

The Villa is situated in Valpolicella, the viticultural center of the province of Verona and a zone producing Amarone Classico DOCG and Valpolicella Classico DOC.

Vincenzo Vinciguerra

Following juridical investigations, it has been discovered that the C4 explosive (the most powerful explosive available at the time) used in the 1972 bombing came from a Gladio arms dump located beneath a cemetery near Verona, whose existence was revealed to judges Felice Casson and Carlo Mastelloni by Giulio Andreotti, former Prime minister of Italy.