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29 unusual facts about Turín


Abou Diop

Diop arrived in Turin from Senegal in early 2011 on trial, convincing Torino to sign him on a permanent basis.

Angelo de Gubernatis

Count Angelo de Gubernatis (1840–1913), Italian man of letters, was born at Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology.

Artūrs Irbe

At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Irbe was Latvia's flag-bearer in the opening ceremonies.

Barbera d'Asti

The wine enters officially in the roll of Piedmontese wines in 1798, the date of the first Ampelography made by Giuseppe Nuvolone-Pergamo, count of Scandaluzza from the Società Agraria di Torino (Agricultural Society of Turin).

Betty Freeman

Following her graduation she married and had four children, then later divorced and married the Italian sculptor and painter Franco Assetto (1911-1991), with whom she lived half of each year in Turin.

Brachetto d'Acqui

In the Italian theater tradition of Commedia dell'arte, the mask character of Gianduja da Gioan d'laduja or Giovanni of the Jug, which represented Turin and Piedmont is said to have preferred Brachetto d'Acqui among all others.

Ernesto Pérez Acosta

In 1958 was appointed representative in the Salesian Congress Turin, Italy.

Fiat Compact platform

Developed in Turin, Italy, the new Compact platform was designed to be adaptable to future cars of the Fiat group as well as Chrysler group vehicles.

Friends of Man

In Italy, the first community was founded in 1946 in Turin by Sebastiano Chiardola.

Gary Gillespie

He was selected for the squad that went to the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, but his only appearance came on 20 June against Brazil at the Stadio delle Alpi Turin, a game the Scots lost 1–0.

Henry Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle

At Turin, Italy, where he was studying fencing, he was joined by his schoolfriend, Horace Walpole.

International Angiology

International Angiology (Int Angiol) is the official medical journal of the International Union of Angiology, the International Union of Phlebology and the Central European Vascular Forum, published for them by Minerva Medica of Turin.

Ippolito Rosellini

They met in Florence in August 1825, during Champollion's journey to study the important Egyptological collections in Turin, Rome and Florence.

Lago di Ceresole

The lake was created in 1925-1931 when A.E.M. (now Iren), Turin's electricity authority, built here a dam with a hydroelectric plant; the site, located in what is now the comune of Ceresole Reale, already housed a small natural lake.

Loide Kasingo

After taking various courses in Marketing Management in South Africa from 1983-84, Kasingo was sent to Turin, Italy for training at the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Movement for Piedmontese Regional Autonomy

In 1956 it was the fifth most voted party in Turin, electing four municipal councillors, and elected a councillor also to the provincial council.

Palace of Venaria

The Palace was designed and built from 1675 by Amedeo di Castellamonte, commissioned by duke Charles Emmanuel II, who needed a base for his hunting expeditions in the heathy hill country north of Turin.

Policarpo Cacherano d'Osasco

Policarpo Cacherano d'Osasco (Cantarana 1744–Turin 27 August 1824) was an officer during the Napoleonic Wars, who rose to the rank of general.

Rai Radio FD 5

Radio FD 5, unlike its sister channel Radio FD 4, can also be heard on FM in five Italian cities: Rome (on 100.3 MHz), Turin (101.8), Milan (102.2), Naples (103.9), and Ancona (106.0).

Sam Sullivan

Sullivan took part in the Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics, in the ceremony where the Olympic Flag was passed from Turin to Vancouver.

Siege of Haddington

The French ambassador in London, Odet de Selve, heard from a French mercenary serving on the English side that it was almost as impregnable as Turin.

Stasys Šačkus

He was the first Lithuanian sportsman to participate in the first athletics competition - 1934 European Athletics Championships in Turin, Italy.

Temples of Humankind

The Temples are located in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 miles from Turin, in the valley of Valchiusella.

The Blue Hour

Additionally, the film was selected by Nanni Moretti to screen at the 2007 Torino Film Festival, in Turin, Italy.

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

The film opens with Major Wright fighting alongside Italian partisans in a town near Turin.

Tiszaeszlár Affair

Lajos Kossuth, then living in exile at Turin, raised his powerful voice to castigate the action of the authorities and to deprecate this stirring up of anti-Jewish prejudices.

Tunnel boring machine

Commissioned by the King of Sardinia in 1845 to dig the Fréjus Rail Tunnel between France and Italy through the Alps, Maus had it built in 1846 in an arms factory near Turin.

Turin, Alberta

Sharing its name with Turin, Italy, an Olympic flag was erected in the hamlet to coincide with the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Wo die Zitronen blühen

The waltz was composed during a tour of the composer in Italy where he travelled with the Langenbach Orchestra of Germany and performed the work at the Teatro Regio in Turin on 9 May 1874.


2002 IAAF World Race Walking Cup

The 2002 IAAF World Race Walking Cup was held on 12 and 13 October 2002 in the streets of Turin, Italy.

Accademia Albertina

Turin became a leading centre of visual arts during the mid-20th century; among Turin's well-known artists are the academy's Felice Casorati, Enrico Paulucci, Francesco Menzio, Sandro Cherchi, Mario Calandri and Enrico Kaneclin.

Alfa Romeo Montreal

Production was split between the Alfa Romeo plant in Arese and Carrozzeria Bertone's plants in Caselle and Grugliasco outside Turin.

Álvaro de Navia Osorio y Vigil, Marqués de Santa Cruz de Marcenado

Between 1726 and 1730, Santa Cruz de Marcenado wrote seven volumes of Military Reflections, published in Turin and Paris.

Alvin Pang

He is also co-editor, along with the poet John Kinsella, of OVER THERE, an anthology of Singapore and Australian poetry, and of DOUBLE SKIN, a bilingual anthology of Italian and Singapore poets (with Turin-based poet and editor Tiziano Fratus).

Angelo Ribossi

an oil canvas, depicting Filippo Maria Visconti con Beatrice di Tenda (exhibited in 1870 at Parma); La vigilia del Natale(exhibited in 1872 at Milan); Il cuoco mal pratico, L' Ammaliatrice, and Il vino del padrone (exhibited in 1880 at Turin); Cuoco mal pratico, Passatempo istruttivo, and Momento di buon umore (exhibited in 1881 at Milan); Momento opportuno (exhibited in 1883 at Milan); Il Babau and Prete artista (exhibited in 1886 at Milan).

Antonio Neumane

In 1839 Antonio Neumane re-married to Idálide Iturri from Turin, Italy.

Augusto Del Noce

He completed his degree in Philosophy in 1932 at the University of Turin, with a dissertation on Malebranche under the direction of Adolfo Faggi.

Carlo Angela

During World War I he was an officer of the Italian Red Cross at the "Vittorio Emanuele III" Territorial Hospital of Turin.

Carlo Vidano

Carlo Vidano (1923, Caluso – 1989, Turin) was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Auchenorrhyncha.

Chile at the 2006 Winter Olympics

7 of Chile's 9 athletes in Turin participated in alpine skiing, including the country's top finisher, Noelle Barahona, who was 30th in the women's combined.

Daniel Biveson

Biveson has represented Sweden in Men's Parallel Giant Slalom at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

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Both in Salt Lake City and Turin, as well as in Vancouver, he qualified for the elimination round but lost in the Round of 16, finishing 16th, 11th and 14th respectively.

Debi Thomas

She was also selected by President George W. Bush to be part of the U.S. Delegation for the Opening Ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Italy along with other former Olympians: Dorothy Hamill, Eric Heiden, Kerri Strug, and Herschel Walker.

DeMUG Baroque Ensemble

He has directed the Civico Istituto Musicale ‘A. Onofri’ of Spoleto, Italy, and taught Baroque Violin at the Conservatorio ‘G. Verdi’ in Turin, Italy.

Fiat APR.2

The cabin could carry 12 passengers, and at the time of its introduction on Ala Littoria's Milan-Turin-Paris route, it was believed to be the fastest airliner in regular service in the world.

Fiat Mini platform

Developed at the end of the 90s in Turin, Italy, the Mini platform was designed to be adaptable to the city car of Fiat Group.

Franco Assetto

At the Bread Show at the Galleria della Bussola, Turin, in 1952 he presented the public with a number of Turin loaves cast in bronze, eight years before Jasper Johns thought of casting his two famous beer cans.

Gaetano Perratone Armandi

In 1880, he exhibited at Turin Giorno che fu, and at the 1883 Exhibition of Rome, he exhibited a Veduta of Gressoney.

Giuseppe Duprà

Particularly in Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia with his elder brother Domenico, Giuseppe Duprà studied in Rome in his youth, as a disciple of Marco Benefial, from 1750, he began painting in the service of King Charles Emmanuel III in the Piedmontese capital, recommended by art enthusiast the Roman cardinal Alessandro Albani.

Guglielmo Stefani

Agenzia Stefani (Agenzia Telegrafica Stefani) was founded by Stefani in Turin, Italy in 1854, at a time when news agencies were also being established in other major European cities: Charles-Louis Havas established the Havas agency in Paris in 1836, Dr. Bernard Wolff established an agency in Berlin in 1849, and Paul Reuter established Reuters in London in 1858 (relocating from Aachen, where it had been established in 1851).

Guigues V of Albon

Two years later, on 13 January 1155, Guigues was in Rivoli, near Turin, to recognise the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa, for his lands.

Gustavo Pallicca

Gustavo Pallicca (Turin, 4 January 1936) is an Italian writer and former athtletics starter.

Hans Ehrich

He mixed his studies with trainee periods at Italian car producers in Milan and Turin, where he, among others, met Giorgetto Giugiaro, who asked him to join the recently established Italdesign company.

Helidon Gjergji

Among many other exhibitions he has participated at the Venice Biennale 52 (curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Manifesta 8; Present Future, Artissima 10 (Turin), curated by Emma Dexter, the Tirana Biennale 1 (curated by Francesco Bonami); Venice Biennale of Architecture 12 (curated by Gjergj Bakallbashi), Madre, (MCA, Naples); Apexart (NYC); National Gallery (Tirana); Villa Arson; Centre d'Art Contemporain (Nice); Lothringer Dreizehn Kunsthalle (Munich); The Kosova Art Gallery.

Iudiciaria Torrensis

The district appears to have lost its status in the mid to late tenth century and its territory to have been divided between the counties of Turin, Asti and Vercelli and subsequently between the Aleramici, the Bishops of Asti, and the Bishops of Vercelli.

Levens

The Duke of Savoy Charles Emmanuel then revoked Annibal's command and ordered him and his son André to follow the Duke to the Turin court.

Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe

The wedding celebration lasted from 17 January 1767, until 27 January with feasts in Turin and Nangis.

Luigi Astolfi

He was composer and choreographer of La Encantadora de Madrid, successfully performed in the season 1845–46 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, starring Fanny Cerrito and Arthur Saint-Léon.

Luigi Rosa

In 1880 at Turin, he exhibited Interior of the Church of the Frari in Venice, in 1881 at Milan and Venice: Sul Livenza; Maremma; Un rio; Un campo a Venezia e Sul Gorgazzo.

Marco Maccarini

Marco Maccarini (born 22 July 1976 in Turin) is an Italian television personality known for presenting TRL Italy, the Italian version of Total Request Live broadcast by MTV Italia, and Festivalbar, broadcast by Mediaset’s Italia 1.

Marco Ponti

In 1995 he attended a script writing course the Holden School in Turin; the following year he worked at the same place under the direction of Alessandro Baricco.

Maria Orsola Bussone

On 26 May 1996 Cardinal Giovanni Saldarini (Turin's archbishop), opened a diocesan inquiry in order to begin a beatification process, that closed with a positive ending on 17 December 2000.

Memphis, Egypt

Much of what was found would fall into the hands of major European collectors travelling the country on behalf of the great museums of London, Paris, Berlin, and Turin.

Palace of Venaria

The Palace of Venaria (Italian: Reggia di Venaria Reale) is a former royal residence located in Venaria Reale, near Turin, in Piedmont, northern Italy.

Promeny

The film project is a production Miracle Film & TV and Lumiq Studios (Turin).

Quattro pezzi sacri

The first performance in Italy, again without the Ave Maria, was conducted in Turin on 26 May 1898 by Arturo Toscanini who had talked to Verdi.

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.

Sergio Aleati

In honour of this, Aleati's name appears alongside his teammates on a plaque affixed to Motovelodromo Fausto Coppi in Turin, the squad was; eight players that would subsequently accompany Aleati on the 1950 rugby league tour, and also Ausonio Alacevich, Bianco, Campi, Chiosso, Chiosso, Mario Dotti IV, Pescarmona, Piovano, Rocca, Felice Rama (coach), Siliquini, and Sandro Vigliano.

Simca 1000

Dividing his time between Fiat’s Industrial Design Centre at Turin and Simca’s Styling Centre at Poissy, Revello de Beaumont spent the two years between 1959 and 1961 working with Fiat’s Felice Mario Boano, developing the Simca 1000 to production readiness.

Spain at the 2006 Winter Olympics

María José Rienda entered the Olympics having won three World Cup events on the season, including the last giant slalom before the Olympic Games, but couldn't repeat this form in Turin, as she finished 13th in the giant slalom.

WiBro

February 10, 2006: Telecom Italia, the dominant telephony and internet service provider in Italy, together with Korean Samsung Electronics, has demonstrated to the public a WiBro network service on the occasion of the 2006 Winter Olympics, held in Turin, with downlink speed of 10 Mbit/s and uplink speed of some hundreds of kbit/s even in movement up to 120 km/h.