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41 unusual facts about Milan


Agnese del Maino

Agnese del Maino (c. 1401 – 13 December 1465) was a Milanese noblewoman and the mistress of Filippo Maria Visconti, the last legitimate Duke of Milan of the Visconti dynasty.

Antoniotto Adorno

Antoniotto had to leave the city and find refuge at the court of the Viscontis of Milan, sworn enemies of the Republic.

Caproni Campini N.1

The other prototype is now on display at the Aeronautical Museum of Vigna di Valle near Rome and the ground testbed is at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.

Christine Atallah

Christine did her musical studies at Concordia University in Montreal and then went to Milan, where she trained and sang alongside some of Italy's great bel canto singers.

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.

Cubana de Aviación accidents and incidents

The aircraft was due to operate a non-scheduled international Havana–Milan–Cologne passenger service as Flight 9646.

Da Milano

Da Milano means "of Milan" in Italian.

Daniel Outelet

In 1961 he won his last bronze medal (bronze) during the European championships held that year in Milan.

Dietrich-Bugatti

It won an award at the Milan Automobile Exhibition that year and gained the notice of the Baron de Dietrich.

FS Class E.428

When in the 1930s, in the course of the Fascist government's program of railways development, a new locomotive was needed to provide a fast service on the newly electrified Milan-Rome mainline at 3,000 V DC.

Gary Bertini

Gary studied music at the Music Teachers' College in Tel Aviv and then in Milan, Italy, and at the Paris Conservatoire.

Georgia State Route 30

They travel through rural areas of the county and enter Milan, inside which the concurrency enters Telfair County.

Giovanni Battista Monteggia

He began training as a surgeon at age seventeen in Milan.

Giovanni II Valente

Confronted with the threat of a new civil war breaking out in the city and the prospect of foreign invasion, the council had to call for the support of the Viscontis of Milan.

Giuseppe Maggiolini

Giuseppe Maggiolini (13 November 1738 – 16 November 1814), himself a marquetry-maker (intarsiatore), was the pre-eminent cabinet-maker (ebanista) in Milan in the later 18th century.

Grete Prytz Kittelsen

As one of the leading artists of the Scandinavian Design movement, Kittelsen received several awards and honors in the 1950s, including the Lunning Prize in 1952, and the 1954 Grand Prix at the Triennale in Milan for her enamel collection.

Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro

In 1465 he moved to Milan, where he was in charge of the celebrations for the wedding of Eleonora d'Aragona with the Duke of Bari.

Hidemaro Konoye

Additionally, Konoye made numerous guest appearances in Europe and America, conducting some 90 different orchestras in the course of his career including the orchestra of La Scala, Milan and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

I Might Be Wrong

The song was first played live as a set-closer in Villa Reale in Milan, Italy, on 19 June 2000, and has become a live favourite.

International Commission on Occupational Health

The International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH), is an international non-governmental professional society, founded in Milan during the Expo 1906 as the Permanent Commission on Occupational Health.

Lothar Fischer

Then in 1973 he had a solo exhibition in the Gallerie d'Arte del Naviglio, Milan.

Lucile Grahn

She had been appearing with the Paris 'Opera' Ballet; from 1839 to 1845, extending her audience base, Grahn danced in several cities, including London, St. Petersburg, and Milan.

Luigi Cremona

In 1848, when Milan and Venice rose against Austria, Cremona, then only seventeen, joined the ranks of the Italian volunteers.

Luigi dal Verme

After fighting in the war between the Republic of Florence and Filippo Maria Visconti, Duke of Milan, the latter give him the title of count and several fiefs.

Luigi Querena

A regular participant in the exhibitions of the Venice Academy, of which he became an honorary member in 1857, he also presented work at the exhibitions of the Brera Academy in Milan, the Società Promotrice di Belle Arti in Genoa and the national exhibitions in Naples (1877), Turin (1880) and Milan (1881).

Massimo Campigli

His family moved to Milan in 1909, and here he worked on the Letteratura magazine, frequenting avant-garde circles and making the acquaintance of Boccioni and Carrà.

Milan-National Level Cultural festival of SRM University

Vijayakanth was the special attraction in the next edition and in 2011 Milan, M. Balamuralikrishna, Vikram (actor) were the guest of honor and Chief guest respectively.

Milan, Michigan

A Federal Bureau of Prisons prison, the Federal Correctional Institution, Milan (FCI), is in adjacent York Charter Township.

Paolo Grassi

The Scuola d'arte drammatica Paolo Grassi ("School of Dramatic Arts Paolo Grassi") in Milan is named in his honor.

Procaer Picchio

Production of the early, wooden Picchios was carried out by Procaer in Milan, but in the mid 1960s, Frati established General Avia as his own factory to build his designs, commencing with the F.15E.

Robert Förster

His career highlights have been wins in the final (Museo del Ghisallo-Milan) stage 21 of the Giro d'Italia 2006, and stage 15 (Motilla del Palancar – Ford factory, Almussafes) of the 2006 Vuelta.

Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice

The proposed draft was then discussed at length at the United Nations Seventh Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders in Milan, Italy, in September 1985.

Striking clock

The clock of the Beata Vergine (later San Gottardo) in Milan, built around 1330, was one of the earliest recorded that struck the hours.

Sylloge

The author of the Laureshamensis traversed the peninsula between Rome and Ivrea, passing through Milan, Pavia, Piacenza, Ravenna, Spoleto and Vercelli.

Tebaldi-Zari

The Zari brothers' factory in Bovisio Mombello, Milan, manufactured the Tebaldi-Zari prototype in 1919, but Breda soon bought both the prototype and the design rights to the aircraft from Zari.

The Last Shepherd

The 1st of October 2011, to film a scene of the movie, Marco Bonfanti brought a flock consisting of more than 700 sheep in Piazza del Duomo in Milan.

Une semaine de bonté

A few of Ernst's sources were identified: these include illustrations from an 1883 novel by Jules Mary, Les damnées de Paris, and possibly a volume of works by Gustave Doré Ernst purchased in Milan.

University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

The University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (German: Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien - in short: VUW) was founded in 1767 as the world's third school for veterinary medicine (after Lyon and Alfort) by Milan's Ludovico Scotti, originally named k. k. Pferde-Curen- und Operationsschule (literally, "Imperial-Royal School for the Cure and Surgery of Horses").

Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon

Vittore Benedetto Antonio Trevisan de Saint-Léon (5 June 1818, Padua – 8 April 1897, Milan) was an Italian botanist who specialized in cryptogamic flora.

Xavier Vilanova i Montiu

Subsequently, following his family’s advice he moved to Paris to specialize in dermatology at the Hospital Saint Louis, then stayed for a period in Strasbourg and Milan where he received training from other leading scientists.

Yawata, Kyoto

The city was founded on November 1, 1977 and currently has a sister city in Milan, Ohio


2000 Milan – San Remo

The 2000 Milan – San Remo was the 91st edition of the monument classic Milan – San Remo bicycle race and was won by Erik Zabel of Team Telekom.

Achille Cattaneo

His works were shown at the Venice Biennale (Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia) in 1924, 1926 and 1928 and in Milan (Esposizione Nazionale di Milano) in 1925 and 1927.

Anders Uppström

A journey in 1860 to Rome, Milan, and Wolfenbüttel, financed by the sons of his childhood patron Petré, resulted in Fragmenta gothica selecta (1861) and another journey to the Ambrosian Library in Milan in 1863 to study the so-called Ambrosian Gothic manuscripts led to Codices gotici ambrosiani, which was published posthumously by his son Anders Erik Wilhelm Uppström in 1868.

Angels Onlus

The 22nd of December 2008, the song 'Angels', wrote and interpreted by Princess Bee, during the football match 'A goal for the peace', held in San Siro stadium in Milan, has been the inn of football team 'Ambassadors of the Peace', made up by several worldwide football champions which have

Aurora Pro Patria 1919

On January 3, 2013, the club was hosting A.C. Milan in a friendly, when the crowd aimed racist chants at A.C. Milan players, including M'Baye Niang, Urby Emanuelson, Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng.

Benedetto Erba Odescalchi

As Archbishop of Milan he focused on pastoral activities, taking as examples Saint Charles Borromeo and Pope Innocent XI.

Beppe Ciardi

The author of landscapes characterised by a symbolic interpretation of nature that won the esteem of critics, he was awarded the Fumagalli Prize in Milan (1900), a gold medal in Munich (1901) and a silver medal in San Francisco (1904).

Bruno Coppi

In 1959 Coppi attained a PhD at the Milan Polytechnic Institute and was subsequently a docent and research scientist at the Polytechnic Institute and the University of Milan.

Canzo

This pieve or confederation of communes (comprehending the near villages of Caslino, Castelmarte, Proserpio, Eupilio, Longone, some frazioni of the current commune of Erba, and having Canzo as capital) from 784 to Martesana zone (the region straight north to Milan roughly corresponding to Brianza historical and cultural region).

Carlo Alberto Castigliano

Carlo Alberto Castigliano (9 November 1847, Asti – 25 October 1884, Milan) was an Italian mathematician and physicist known for Castigliano's method for determining displacements in a linear-elastic system based on the partial derivatives of strain energy.

Dennis Embleton

They journeyed to Paris, Strasbourg, Baden, Switzerland, over the Simplon Pass, Milan, Genoa, Rome, Bologna, Pisa, Florence, Venice, Trieste, Vienna, The Tyrol and back to Paris, All the time, in addition to seeing the sights, they visited numerous medical establishments, and at Pisa they petitioned the university, sat the examination for doctorate of medicine, passed and were granted diplomas on 14 September 1836

Federico Ghizzoni

Ghizzoni also sits on the management board at the Bank Austria and is the chairman of the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala Association in Milan.

Ferdinando Cospi

In 1646 he undertook a mission to Milan to pay respects on behalf of the Grand Duke to the new governor, Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 6th Duke of Frías.

Galeazzo Visconti

Gian Galeazzo Visconti (1351–1402), lord of Milan from 1378 to 1402, becoming its first duke in 1395

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.

Gian Luca Rossi

He has worked with newspapers Tuttosport, Il Giorno, the monthly Milan-Inter derby and, since 2004, following F.C. Inter also on Antenna 3.

Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani

Giovanni Battista Ambrosiani (born 2 July 1772, Milan – 19 February 1832, Karlberg Palace) was an Italian ballet dancer.

Giovanni Stefano Menochio

He was successively superior of Cremona, Milan, and Genoa, rector of the Roman College, provincial of the provinces of Milan and Rome, assistant of Italy, and admonitor to the Fathers-General Caraffa and Piccolomini.

Guglielmo de Sanctis

Gioacchino Rossini; Aleardo Aleardi; Giacomo Leopardi; Alessandro Manzoni; Michelangelo; the Exposition of Milan in 1872; Bernardo Celentano; Exposition of Antwerp in 1885; Cesare Maccari; Francesco Podesti; and Agli alunni delle scuole d'arte applicata all' industria e alcune poesie.

House of Carrillo

Marquis Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (1659 and 1664), Governor of Milan, Spanish general and political figure.

Jacopo Foroni

After studies with Alberto Mazzucato in Milan Foroni worked as a conductor in France, Belgium and Holland before arriving in Sweden in 1849 to work for Vincenzo Galli's opera company at the Mindre teatern where he gave the Swedish premieres of works by Bellini and Donizetti as well as the young Verdi.

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

In 1789, Augustinian Carlo Amoretti, Italian Encyclopedist and librarian of Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, discovered the authentic Italian manuscript of Antonio Pigafetta among the scattered holdings of the library.

Lives of Style

The show reports on New York, Paris, Milan, and London fashion weeks, the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, the Emmys, Hollywood Premieres, Fashion’s Night Out, Concours d’Elegance, Napa Wine Auction and the Cannes Film Festival.

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.

Ludovico Tommasi

After his military service in Milan between 1888 and 1891, Tommasi and his brother Angiolo frequented the cultural circle that gravitated around Giacomo Puccini at Torre del Lago, and it was here that he came into contact with several exponents of the Tuscan artistic avant-garde, including Galileo Chini and Oscar Ghiglia.

Marcos Portugal

Like most theatre composers of the time, Portugal set several librettos that had proven successful for earlier operas, such as Metastasio’s Demofoonte (premièred at La Scala, Milan in 1794) and Artaserse; and he set many stories that had been used before, including Serse, Alceste, Adrasto, Semiramide and Sofonisba.

Mericanel della Brianza

The Mericanel della Brianza is named after the Brianza, a hilly geographical area which extends to the north and north-east of Milan, in the provinces of Monza e della Brianza, Lecco and Como, with a small part of the province of Milan.

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.

Michelino Molinari da Besozzo

Michelino's last known work is the fresco with the Procession of the Magi in the church of Santa Maria di Podone of Milan and fragments in the Rocca Borromeo di Angera (1445–1446).

Milan Dinčić

On the show, Milan Dinčić was given the nickname "Dinča", because there were two "Milans" - Milan Dinčić and Milan Stanković.

Monothelitism

Other synods were also held at Milan and at the Council of Hatfield in 680, convoked by Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury.

Nery Pumpido

At the 1990 World Cup, Pumpido was at fault for Cameroon's winning goal, fumbling François Omam-Biyik's header into the net as the African nation shocked the defending champions at the tournament's opening game in Milan, winning by a goal to nil.

New Italian Epic

In March 2009 the PhD programme Planetary Collegium M-Node, along with the School of Media Design and Multimedia Arts of the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan organised the symposium ‘New Italian (Media) Epic’, with the presence of Wu Ming 1, Derrick De Kerckhove, Pier Luigi Capucci, Francesco Monico, and many others including film-makers, artists and media theorists.

Nirmal Verma

He stayed in Prague for 10 years, where he was invited by Oriental Institute to initiate a program of translation of modern Czech writers like Karel Capek, Milan Kundera, and Bohumil Hrabal, to Hindi; he also learnt the Czech language, and translated nine world classics to Hindi, before returning home in 1968, as the result of Prague Spring.

Nordström's theory of gravitation

Nordström's theories arose at a time when several leading physicists, including Nordström in Helsinki, Max Abraham in Milan, Gustav Mie in Greifswald, Germany, and Albert Einstein in Prague, were all trying to create competing relativistic theories of gravitation.

Orli Shaham

Her appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit and Atlanta Symphonies, Orchestre National de Lyon, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Orchestra of La Scala (Milan), Orchestra della Toscana (Florence), and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Pietro Giordani

He traveled a great deal and settled, at various times, in Piacenza, Bologna and, finally, in Milan, where he became an editor, along with Vincenzo Monti, Giuseppe Acerbi and the geologist Scipione Breislak, of the classicist magazine La Biblioteca Italiana.

Pino Puglisi

Pino Puglisi, il prete che fece tremare la mafia con un sorriso, Milan: Rizzoli, ISBN 978-8817066587

Pioltello-Limito railway station

Pioltello-Limito is served by the lines S5 and S6 of Milan suburban railway network, by the regional trains Milan–Brescia, and by the RegioExpress trains Milan–Bergamo and Milan–Verona.

Plane Crazy

In Porco Rosso, in a theater in Milan, Porco watches a movie which has references to vintage cartoons.

Railway stations in Milan

For eleven years, this station served as the terminus of the Milan–Treviglio railway, which is the Lombard section of the Milan-Venice railway.

Recombinant Immunotoxin Collaborative Group

The RICG was formed in 2005 and originally consisted of Dr Aldo Ceriotti and Dr M. Serena Fabbrini (IBBA, CNR, Milan), Professor Marco Colombatti (University of Verona), Professor Rodolfo Ippoliti (University of L'Aquila), Dr Alessandro Pini (University of Siena) and Drs David Flavell & Sopsamorn Flavell (University of Southampton Medical School & Leukaemia Busters).

Stephan Ebn

During the Amiche per l'Abruzzo Concert on 21 June 2009 at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Stephan joined the stage with Gianna Nannini, Laura Pausini and others to benefit the victims of the earthquake in the Abruzzes.

The Blonde Salad

The Blonde Salad is a fashion blog created and run by Chiara Ferragni (born 7 May 1987), an occasional fashion writer and model who attends Bocconi University in Milan as a full-time law student.

Thea Garrett

Recently Thea sang with famous Italian singer, Gigi D'Alessio on the opening night of his World tour in Rome and was again invited to sing in Milan, where this time Gigi accompanied Thea on his piano and let her sing one of his favorite songs as a soloist.

Violette Verdy

She went on to dance with Les Ballets de Paris (1950; 1953–1954), the London Festival Ballet (1954–1955), La Scala, Milan (1955–1956), and the American Ballet Theatre (1956–1957).

Xul Solar

Over the following few years, despite the onset of World War I, he would move among these cities, as well as Tours, Marseille, and Florence; towards the end of the war he served at the Argentine consulate in Milan.