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33 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.

Antonio Neumane

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

Aurora Pavlovna Demidova

Princess and Countess Aurora Pavlovna Demidova (2/3 November 1873, Kiev – 28 June (OS: 16 June) 1904, Turin) was a Russian noblewoman of the Demidov family.

Automotrice à grande vitesse

The company planned to launch a variety of services on the Turin - Milan - Bologna, Rome - Venice, and Bologna - Florence - Rome - Naples high-speed lines, with some trains from Naples running to Bari.

Carlo Emilio Bonferroni

He studied in Turin, held a post as assistant professor at the Turin Polytechnic, and in 1923 took up the chair of financial mathematics at the Economics Institute in Bari.

Ergin Ataman

Ataman had a successful season with Beşiktaş which the team achieved Uleb Cup Quarter Finals held in Turin, Italy; after a stunning undefeated 10 in-a-row win performance in group B.

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.

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.

Frankfurter Kantorei

The choir has performed concert tours abroad in Paris, Lyon, Venice, Turin, Vienna, Helsinki, St Petersburg, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Seattle and Toronto, among others, and first appeared in Israel in 1979.

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.

Ginban Kaleidoscope

Her goal is to compete in the Winter Olympics in Torino (Turin, Italy).

Giuseppe Di Cristina

After he returned from an internal banishment in Turin due the Mafia crackdown by the Italian authorities after the Ciaculli massacre in 1963, Di Cristina was made treasurer of the EAS-owned company So.

Ippolito Rosellini

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

Jonathan Watkins

In 1999, Watkins was appointed to his current role as Director of the Ikon Gallery, and has also curated projects at the Castello di Rivoli in Turin, the Venice Biennale in Italy, the Hayward Gallery in London and Tate in London.

José Rafael Tobar Lemus

Tobar started his career at hometown club Turín in the third division and joined Salvadoran second division side Huracán in 1992.

José Rafael Tobar Lemus (born 24 November 1975 in Turín) is a Salvadoran football player, who currently plays as Defender for Alacranes Del Norte of El Salvador.

Marie Bonaparte-Wyse

She went often to Turin, the kingdom's capital, where she established yet another salon at the Hôtel Feder.

Mario René Díaz Leyva

In 2002, he presented some of his works at Cuba 1960–2000. Sogno e realitá at the Italian Foundation for Photography, Turín, Italy.

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

Renato Treves

Renato Treves (1907–1992) was born in Turin, Italy of a Jewish family.

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.

Sandro Ivo Bartoli

The same year, he founded in London Opera Etcetera, a series of concerts devoted to the non-vocal music of opera composers, and the Lyric Club Renato Bruson of Turin awarded him the Gina Rosso Prize for his work in the arts.

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.

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-Milan Hours

Most of this part of the work, the prayer-book section, known as the Turin Hours, belonged by 1479 to the House of Savoy, later Kings of Piedmont (and subsequently Italy), who gave it in 1720 to the National Library in 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.

Advent and Triumph of Christ

A similar narrative style was employed by Memling for his earlier Scenes from the Passion of Christ (c.1470), commissioned by Tommaso Portinari and now held by the Galleria Sabauda in Turin.

Alfa Romeo Montreal

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

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).

Avro Baby

On 31 May 1920 he made a non-stop flight from Croydon to Turin in 9 hours 30 minutes - a flight of 655 mi (1,050 km) and celebrated at the time as "the most meritorious flight on record".

Barikot

A large quantity of the artefacts are preserved in the National Museum of Oriental Art of Rome, and the MAO in 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.

Brazilian Military Cemetery of Pistoia

In their final advance, the Brazilians reached Turin and on 2 May they joined up with French troops at the border in Susa.

Cesare Burali-Forti

He was born in Arezzo, and was an assistant of Giuseppe Peano in Turin from 1894 to 1896, during which time he discovered what came to be called the Burali-Forti paradox of Cantorian set theory.

Charles Schomberg, 2nd Duke of Schomberg

Charles Schomberg, 2nd Duke of Schomberg ('s-Hertogenbosch, 5 August 1645 – Turin, 17 October 1693) was a general in the Prussian, Dutch and British Army, the second person to be Duke of Schomberg, a title in the Peerage of England.

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.

Christian Olsson

2004: Turin (Grand Prix) - 17.61 m; Bergen (Golden League) - 17.58 m; Bydgoszcz (European Cup super league) - 17.30 m; Gateshead (Grand Prix) - 17.43 m; Rome (Golden League) - 17.50 m; Paris Saint-Denis (Golden League) - 17.41 m; Zürich (Golden League) - 17.46 m; Brussels (Golden League) - 17.44 m; Berlin (Golden League) - 17.45 m; Monaco (World Athletics Final) - 17.66 m

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.

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.

Edoardo Raimondi

In 1884 at Turin, he exhibited paintings depicting scenes of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, and a canvas depicting Fisherman in the Lago di Bieva (Lake Biwa in Japan.

Flora Perini

Over the next several years she appeared in operas in Nice, Venice, Triest, Turin, Bologna, Madrid, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo.

Francesco Mazzaferro

In March 1994 the Italian police seized 5497 kilogrammes of cocaine (a European record at the time) in Borgaro Torinese near Turin (the investigation was code-named Operation Cartagine).

Gaetano Cima

He studied architecture in Turin and later in Rome at the Accademia delle Belle Arti, where he had as professors Luigi Canina and Luigi Poletti, famous Italian neoclassical architects.

Giovanni Tamagno

In honour of this, Tamagno'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 Tamagno 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.

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.

Giuseppe Meazza

The semi-final was against the Wunderteam, managed by Hugo Meisl and with Josef Bican of Rapid Vienna and Matthias Sindelar of FK Austria, two of the world’s finest players, Austria was widely considered the strongest continental side and had already beaten the Italians 4–2 in Turin only four months earlier.

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).

Guglielmo Stella

He was artistic collaborator to the journal of La stampa in Venice; also along with Enrico Castelnuovo and Alessandro Pascolato, correspondent del Monde lllustré and of Tour de Monde of Paris, director of the Arte del Mondo Illustrato of Turin and spent some time in Paris.

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.

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 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.

Marisa Allasio

She left her acting career in 1958, year of her marriage with Count Pier Francesco Calvi di Bergolo (born 2 December 1933, Turin), son of Princess Iolanda di Savoia, first-born of Vittorio Emanuele III and Elena del Montenegro.

Movement for Piedmontese Regional Autonomy

The MARP was founded in 1955 in Turin by a group of Piedmontese autonomists led by professor Enrico Villarboito.

Pitigrilli

He and his Avocotessa were able to have that changed to Uscio, a small town near the Riviera that was two hours from Turin.

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.

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).

Ruggero Bonghi

At Turin he resumed his philosophic studies and his translation of Plato, but In 1858 refused a professorship of Greek at Pavia, under the Austrian government, only to accept it in 1859 from the Italian government after the liberation of Lombardy.

Sebastiano Galeotti

Sebastiano Galeotti (1656–1746) was a peripatetic Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Florence, Genoa, Parma, Piacenza, Codogno, Lodi, Cremona, Milan, Vicenza, Bergamo, and Turin.

Siege of Turin

On 17 June Victor Amadeus left Turin to meet Eugene, who was marching from the Trentino with Austrian troops under his command.

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.

Tancredi Pasero

After studying with the baritone Arturo Pessina in Turin, Pasero made his debut there, during 1917, as Ramphis in Verdi's Aida—although he always considered his official operatic debut to have taken place in Vicenza, on December 15, 1918, as Rodolfo in Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula.

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.

Within Me

The video was filmed by Kal Karman from 2 to 3 March 2007 in Turin at Borgo Medievale's park and castle and in the Sardinian desert.