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Nationality | Italian |
Born | Rome, Italy | 6 July 1963
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Sport | Modern pentathlon |
Cesare Toraldo (born 6 July 1963) is an Italian modern pentathlete. He competed in the men's individual event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. [1]
Trieste is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, as well as of the regional decentralization entity of Trieste.
Barcola is a maritime neighbourhood of Trieste, Italy. It is a popular tourist destination with beaches and long promenades, near the Habsburg-established Miramare Castle.
Il Piccolo is the main daily newspaper of Trieste, Italy. Its name derives from the paper's original small format.
Giorgio Strehler was an Italian stage director, theatre practitioner, actor, and politician. Strehler was one of the most significant figures in Italian theatre during his lifetime, described by Mel Gussow as "the grand master of Italian theater" and "one of the world's boldest and most innovative directors". He co-founded Italy's first and most significant repertory company, the Piccolo Teatro of Milan, and the Union of the Theatres of Europe. With the Italian Socialist Party, Strehler served as Member of the European Parliament between 1983 and 1984, representing North-West Italy. He switched parties to the Independent Left, for which he was a Senator from 1987 to 1992, representing Lombardy.
PalaTrieste, officially known as Palazzo dello sport Cesare Rubini is an indoor sporting arena located in Trieste, Italy. Opened in 1999, it has a seating capacity for 6,943 people and is currently home for Pallacanestro Trieste basketball team.
Leopoldo Trieste was an Italian actor, film director and script writer.
Nando Bruno was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 84 films between 1938 and 1961. He was born in Rome, Italy and he died there.
Giovanni Grasso was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1910 and 1955. He was born and died in Catania, Sicily, Italy. Born into a family of marionettists, he was cousin and namesake of Giovanni Grasso, a respected stage actor specialized in the Sicilian language repertoire, so he assumed at the beginning of his career the stage name "Giovanni Grasso Junior" to stand out. He was mainly active on stage, often acting together with his wife, Virginia Balestrieri.
Franca Batich is an Italian contemporary artist who specializes in oil and mixed technique abstract painting.
Altura is a neighbourhood in the town of Trieste, Italy, region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It was established in the 1970s, is located circa 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the centre of Trieste and has a population of about 3,400 inhabitants.
Il giro del mondo degli innamorati di Peynet, internationally released as Around the World with Peynet's Lovers and The Turn of the World of the Sweethearts of Peynet, is a 1974 Italian animation film directed by Cesare Perfetto and based on the creations of the French illustrator Raymond Peynet.
Michele Ruzzier is an Italian professional basketball player for Pallacanestro Trieste of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He has also represented the Italian national team. Ruzzier plays at the point guard position.
Responsible Autonomy is a centrist to centre-right political party active in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy.
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival was founded in 2000 under the name of Science plus Fiction by the Research and Experimentation Centre La Cappella Underground with the ambitious purpose of re-launching the Festival Internazionale del film di fantascienza, which had been held in the northern Italian city of Trieste in the years 1963–1982.
Cecilia Seghizzi was an Italian composer, painter, teacher and supercentenarian.
The Song of Life is a 1945 Italian melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Alida Valli, Carlo Ninchi and María Mercader. It is set during the German occupation of Rome in the Second World War before the Liberation of the city in 1944. It was shot at the Scalera Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gastone Medin.
Miramare railway station is a railway station in Miramare, a suburb of Trieste, in the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northeastern Italy. The station was constructed in 1857 on a line which at the time connected Vienna with Trieste. The purpose of the new station was mainly to serve the Miramare Castle, newly constructed residence of the Archduke Maximilian. The station building is intact but it is closed, and only local trains to Udine stop at the station.
Tristano Alberti was an Italian sculptor. Inspired by Auguste René Rodin, after attending ornate sculptors class at the Alessandro Volta technical institute in Trieste, he choose the same craftsman-like approach in Early Modern Sculpture: Rodin, Degas, Matisse, Brancusi, Picasso, Gonzalez and later, in late 1940s and early 1950s, developed a fully personal style in figuratively representing human and animal-themed chalks and bronzes, possessing a unique ability to model passion, rage and strong emotions. He is known for his sacred art and monuments, and such sculptures as San Sebastiano, Cat, Nazario Sauro and San Giusto. The latter being yearly and awarded as a copy and special prize to prominent people in Trieste.
Mount Cocusso is a mountainous relief on the border between Italy and Slovenia. It is the highest mountain in the Trieste Karst.