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Notturna di Milano (English: Night in Milan) is an annual track and field meeting which is held in September at the Arena Civica in Milan, Italy. First held in 1998, the meeting received IAAF permit meeting status the following year. [1]
Satellite picture of Milan Navigli in Milan by night. Milan is located in the north-western section of the Po Valley, approximately halfway between the river Po to the south and the foothills of the Alps with the great lakes (Lake Como, Lake Maggiore and Lake Lugano) to the north, the Ticino river to the west and the Adda to the east.
Giuseppe Sala, the current Mayor of Milan, and the comune of Milan asked for time and stressed that the San Siro would be kept until at least the 2026 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics to be held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo. [21] [22] The proposed project was also met with some skepticism and opposition by several fans of both teams. [23]
A celestial map by the Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit, 1670. A star chart is a celestial map of the night sky with astronomical objects laid out on a grid system. They are used to identify and locate constellations, stars, nebulae, galaxies, and planets. [1]
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1840 - Milan-Monza railway begins operating. 1842 - Premiere of Verdi's opera Nabucco. [26] 1848 - Five Days uprising against Austrian Empire. [22] [7] 1853 - abortive Milan Uprising against Austrian rule. 1860 Campari in business. [16] Antonio Beretta becomes mayor. 1861 Milan becomes part of Kingdom of Italy. City hall opens in Palazzo Marino.
Among the major exponents are Alessandro Magnasco, who was born in Genoa but trained in Milan; he specialized in certain characteristic figures, such as washerwomen, friars, beggars and soldiers, using a style defined as “touch painting”: moreover, he was accepted into the Milan Academy of St. Luke. [169] Another great exponent of the ...
Milan surrendered to Charlemagne and the Franks in 774. The aristocracy and majority of the clergy had taken refuge in Genoa. In 774, when Charlemagne took the title of "King of the Lombards", he established his imperial capital of Aachen in what is today Germany. Before then the Germanic kingdoms had frequently conquered each other, but none ...