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5 unusual facts about Budrio


A.S.D. Mezzolara

Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Mezzolara is an Italian association football club located in Mezzolara, a frazione of Budrio, Emilia-Romagna.

Budrio

Budrio is the birthplace of Giuseppe Barilli, better known under his false name of Quirico Filopanti, a famous Italian mathematician and politician.It is also the birthplace of Zenobio, a famous comedian of the 1970s.

Giuseppe Donati

His first ocarina-making workshop was in his hometown of Budrio.

Marcello Massarenti

Don Marcello Massarenti (Budrio, 1817 — 1905), a Vatican official who helped Pope Pius IX escape from Rome at the time of the Roman republican uprising of 1849, rose to become Almoner of the Pope.

Ocarina

Its earliest use in Europe dates back to the 19th century in Budrio, a town near Bologna, Italy, where Giuseppe Donati transformed the ocarina from a toy, which only played a few notes, into a more comprehensive instrument (known as the first "classical" ocarinas).


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