| Full name | Rugby Club Valpolicella ASD | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Union | Federazione Italiana Rugby | ||
| Founded | 1974 | ||
| Location | Valpolicella, Italy | ||
| Ground(s) | Campo Sportivo Comunale | ||
| President | Sergio Ruzzenente | ||
| League(s) | Serie A | ||
| 2014–15 | 1st (Pool retrocessione 2) | ||
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| Official website | |||
| www | |||
Rugby Club Valpolicella is an Italian professional rugby union team based in Valpolicella, which competes in the Serie A.
Valpolicella was founded in 1974 and have won 15 Italian national championships.
The team plays at the Campo Sportivo Comunale in Valpolicella.
Amarone della Valpolicella, usually known as Amarone, is an Italian DOCG denomination of typically rich dry red wine made from the partially dried grapes of the Corvina, Rondinella (5–30%) and other approved red grape varieties.
Valpolicella is a viticultural zone of the province of Verona, Italy, east of Lake Garda. The hilly agricultural and marble-quarrying region of small holdings north of the Adige is famous for wine production. Valpolicella ranks just after Chianti in total Italian Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) wine production.
Cavaion Veronese is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) west of Venice and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northwest of Verona. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 4,459 and an area of 12.9 square kilometres (5.0 sq mi).
Fumane is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 110 kilometres (68 mi) west of Venice and about 15 kilometres (9 mi) northwest of Verona. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 3,908 and an area of 34.3 square kilometres (13.2 sq mi).
Marano di Valpolicella is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 110 kilometres (68 mi) west of Venice and about 14 kilometres (9 mi) northwest of Verona. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,975 and an area of 18.6 square kilometres (7.2 sq mi).
Negrar di Valpolicella is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, about 110 kilometres (68 mi) west of Venice and about 12 kilometres (7 mi) northwest of Verona. Since 8 February 2019, the official name has been changed to "Negrar di Valpolicella" after a referendum was held in the town.
San Pietro in Cariano is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 110 kilometres (68 mi) west of Venice and about 12 kilometres (7 mi) northwest of Verona. It is located in the geographical region of Valpolicella.
Sant'Ambrogio di Valpolicella is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 120 kilometres west of Venice and about 15 km (9 mi) northwest of Verona.
The Arusnates were an ancient people inhabiting the eastern shores of Lacus Benacus, northwest of Verona, at the time of contact with the Romans. The Romans named the territory Pagus Arusnatium which roughly corresponds to the modern Valpolicella district of Italy. Not much is known about the Arusnates; attempts to link them to Etruscans or Rhaetians have been unsuccessful due to lack of evidence. The names of their gods and goddesses have been preserved : Cuslano, Imnhagalle, Lualda, Schnagalle, and Udisna Augusta.
Venetian wine is produced in Veneto, a highly productive wine region in north-eastern Italy.
Silvia Fuselli is an Italian footballer who currently plays as a striker for Fimauto Valpolicella in Serie A. She has also played for Agliana, Torino, Torres, Verona and Brescia, and she has been a member of the Italian national team.
Valentina Boni is an Italian football midfielder currently playing for ASD Fimauto Valpolicella. She previously spent three years at ACF Brescia in Serie A. She has won four leagues with CF Bardolino, and she was the league's top scorer in 2005, tied with Patrizia Panico at 32 goals.
Jerónimo Etcheverry is an Uruguayan rugby union player. He currently plays as a fly-half and as a fullback for Carrasco Polo Club.
Rossignola is a red Italian wine grape variety that is grown in the Veneto wine region of northeast Italy. The variety was first mentioned growing in the province of Verona in the early 19th century and today is a permitted blending variety in several Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) wines of the Veneto including Bardolino and Valpolicella.
Gastón Mieres is a Uruguayan rugby union player who plays for Canadian club Toronto Arrows in Major League Rugby (MLR) and the Uruguay national rugby union team Los Teros as a fullback.
Alberto Román is a Uruguayan rugby union player who plays as a centre for Pucaru Stade Gaulois. He was named in Uruguay's squad for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
John Dobson is a South African rugby union coach, currently the head coach of United Rugby Championship side Stormers.
Rebecca Eileen Dempster is a Scottish footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Fimauto Valpolicella. She has made three appearances for the Scotland national team.
In the 2009–10 season, the Serie B competition of rugby union in Italy consisted of four groups each of 12 teams, with a playoff for promotion among the top two teams from each group. The competition resulted in the promotion of four teams to Serie A2: Modena, Reggio Emilia, Roccia (Rubano) and Valpolicella.
Oseleta is a rare, autochthonous red wine grape variety from the Valpolicella area in the Veneto region of Italy. It was almost extinct after the phylloxera blight of the 19th and early 20th centuries, but was rediscovered and replanted in small areas by the wine producer Masi in the early 1980s. The variety is now permitted in the Valpolicella DOC and Amarone DOCG rules, and a small number of wine producers, including Masi, make a varietal wine with it.
