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1824 - Museo Egizio (Egyptian museum) founded. 1831 - Gran Madre di Dio, Turin (church) built. [3] 1832 - Pinacoteca opens in Palazzo Madama. [3] [13] 1837 - Royal Library of Turin and Royal Armoury established. [14] 1841 - Società del Whist founded. 1843 - National Historical Museum of Artillery founded. [15] 1848 Gazzetta del Popolo begins ...
The average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in Turin (for example, to and from work) on a weekday is 65 minutes. 14% of public transit riders ride for more than 2 hours every day. The average time spent waiting at a stop or station for public transit is 14 minutes, while 19% of riders wait for over 20 minutes on ...
The War of the Spanish succession (1702–1715) and the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720) established the Habsburg monarchy as the dominant power in most of the present day Lombardy and Southern Italy (though the War of the Polish Succession resulted in the re-installment of the Spanish in the south, as the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies).
The New River Company became one of the largest private water companies of the time, supplying the City of London and other central areas. [109] The first civic system of piped water in England was established in Derby in 1692, using wooden pipes, [110] which was common for several centuries. [111]
Many leaders of the unification movement were at one time members of this organization. In this context, in 1847, the first public performance of the song Il Canto degli Italiani, the Italian national anthem since 1946, took place. [129] Two prominent radical figures in the unification movement were Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Its first phase was finished in time for the 2006 Olympic Games, inaugurated on 4 February 2006 and opened to the public the day after. The first leg of the subway system linked the nearby town of Collegno with Porta Susa in Turin's city centre.
A Chinese bottled water giant founded by the country’s richest person is picking a fight with Hong Kong’s consumer watchdog Lionel Lim July 17, 2024 at 5:16 AM
All were repulsed with heavy loss; Pietro Micca was killed on 31 August, after exploding a mine to prevent the French breaking into one of the tunnels underneath the citadel. [17] Including deaths from disease, the leading cause during a prolonged siege, the French suffered losses of 10,000, the garrison 4,500.