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Pierfrancesco Cittadini (1616–1681) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and noted for his portraits and lush still lifes.
In the 1st century AD, what would become western Hungary was incorporated into the Roman Empire as part of the province of Pannonia. [3] Soon thereafter, the town of Sopianae was founded where modern-day Pécs stands, by colonists from the west who had intermarried with the local Illyrian-Celtic people. [3]
A shoe-fitting fluoroscope was a metal construction covered in finished wood, approximately 4 feet (1.2 m) high in the shape of short column, with a ledge with an opening through which the standing customer (adult or child) would put their feet and look through a viewing porthole at the top of the fluoroscope down at the X-ray view of the feet ...
Certified email (known as Posta elettronica certificata in Italy, or PEC in short) is a special type of email in use in Italy, [1] Switzerland, [2] Hong Kong [3] and Germany. [4] Certified email is meant to provide a legal equivalent of the traditional registered mail , where users are able to legally prove that a given email has been sent and ...
Cody Permenter included the museum in Thrillist's 2015 list of "The 11 Strangest Museums in (and Around) Seattle". [10] Christina Ausley of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer included the Giant Shoe Museum in a 2020 overview of the city's 14 "strangest" landmarks, writing: "Drop a humble 50 cents into a small coin box for the world's largest collection of giant shoes.
Brogan-like shoes, called "brogues" (from Old Irish "bróc" meaning "shoe"), were made and worn in Ireland and Scotland as early as the 16th century, and the shoe type probably originated in Ireland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They were used by the Scots and the Irish as work boots to wear in the wet, boggy Scottish and Irish countryside. [ 3 ]
Papal shoes of Pope Pius VII (1808) Pope Benedict XVI wearing the red leather Papal shoes A set of red loafers, manufactured by papal shoemaker Adriano Stefanelli, Novara, worn by Pope Benedict XVI. The Philippi Collection. Shoes worn by Pope Benedict XV at the Bata Shoe Museum. The papal shoes are the red leather outdoor shoes worn by the Pope.
The square is located in the heart of the old town of Pécs, on the southern side of the Mecsek mountain. Twelve streets run into the square, starting from the south clockwise: Irgalmasok street, Jókai square, Ferencesek street, Ciszterci alley, Janus Pannonius street, Szepessy Ignác street, Hunyadi János street, Megye street, Mária street, Király street, Perczel Miklós street and ...