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unusual facts about Verona–Mantua–Modena railway



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).

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

Abraham Rovigo

Abraham Rovigo (born ca. 1650 in Modena, died 1713 in Mantua) was a Jewish scholar, rabbi and kabbalist.

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.

Angelo Bendinelli

Later he performed in theaters in many Italian cities, like Bologna, Mantua and Venice, and performed important works such as Rigoletto, La sonnambula, L'amico Fritz, Iris, and Manon.

Antoine Brumel

The chapel there was disbanded in 1510, after which he evidently stayed in Italy; several documents connect him with churches in Faenza and Mantua, where he probably died in 1512 or shortly after.

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.

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.

Bridge castle

In the Late Middle Ages, Gian Galeazzo Visconti ordered the construction of a mighty bridge fortress under the four-winged inner bailey of the local castle between Mantua and Lake Garda.

Charles Ottley Groom Napier

In the 1870s Napier began styling himself as the Prince of Mantua and Montferrat with subsidiary titles as prince of Ferrera, Nevers, Rethel, and Alençon; Baron de Tobago; and master of Lennox, Kilmahew, and Merchiston.

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.

Dorothea of Brandenburg

In 1475 and 1488, Dorothea visited the reigning popes (Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII) in Rome and her sister Barbara in Mantua.

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.

Froinsias Ó Maolmhuaidh

He received instructions while in Mantua, on the 4th May 1647, to proceed to the Irish Franciscan College of St. Isidore, at Rome, to teach philosophy; he was teaching theology there in 1652, and was doing so as late as 1677.

Gerard de Ridefort

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

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.

Giovanni Marchese di Provera

In the fourth attempt to relieve Mantua, Alvinczi led the main Austrian effort from the north, down the Adige River valley.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mantua, Utah

Snow was from Mantua, Ohio, and the town was named after the Ohio community in his honor.

Mantua was settled in the mid-19th century when future LDS President and then apostle and head church authority in Box Elder County Lorenzo Snow sent settlers to the valley to grow flax.

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.

Mene rhombea

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

Merchant submarine

Its fate was never decisively uncovered, though she may have collided with the British armed merchant cruiser HMS Mantua south of Iceland, as was theorized after the war.

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.

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.

Nehemiah Hayyun

But Ḥayyun was excommunicated by many other outside congregations, and his disreputable antecedents and the deceptive means by which he acquired introductions were exposed, especially by Leon Brieli, the aged rabbi of Mantua.

Order of the Starry Cross

The Order of the Starry Cross (or Order of the Star Cross/Star Cross Order; German: Sternkreuz-Orden) was founded by Eleanora Gonzaga of Mantua, dowager empress of the Holy Roman Empire, in 1668.

Pietro Ronzoni

Trained in Rome under the guidance of the landscape painter Luigi Campovecchio from Mantua, Ronzoni met Angelica Kauffman and Antonio Canova and formed friendships with numerous artists, including Pelagio Palagi, Martin Verstappen and Hendrik Voogd.

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.

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.

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.

Religious Jewish music

Salamone Rossi, a composer at the court of Mantua, published a volume of psalm settings in a Baroque style similar to Monteverdi, but this did not become widely popular in synagogue use until revived in the late 19th century.

Self-portrait in a circle of friends from Mantua

Self-portrait in a circle of friends from Mantua is an oil on canvas by Peter Paul Rubens, produced between 1602 and 1604.

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.

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.

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".

Verona, New York

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

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.

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.

Zu Mantua in Banden

Zu Mantua in Banden (also known as the Andreas-Hofer-Lied) is one of the most popular folk songs and, since 1948, the official anthem of the current Austrian State of Tyrol, i.e. the Northern and Eastern part of the former County of Tyrol.


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