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The Casinò di Campione is one of Italy's oldest casinos, as well as Europe’s largest casino [1] and the largest employer in the municipality of Campione d'Italia, an Italian exclave within Switzerland's Canton of Ticino, on the shores of Lake Lugano. Founded in 1917, the casino was declared bankrupt on 27 July 2018 and closed. [2]
Following the Second World War, and particularly during the 1960s and 70s, thanks to an abundant flow of capital from nearby Italy, [22] Lugano experienced a period of exponential growth in banking activities which led to it placing itself as the third financial centre of Switzerland, [10] [24] with over 100 banking institutions present in the ...
Tourism began in Switzerland with British mountaineers climbing the main peaks of the Bernese Alps in the early 19th century.. The Alpine Club in London was founded in 1857. . Reconvalescence in the Alpine, in particular from tuberculosis, was another important branch of tourism in the 19th and early 20th centuries: for example in Davos, Graubü
The Locarno Treaties were seven post-World War I agreements negotiated amongst Germany, France, Great Britain, Belgium, Italy, Poland and Czechoslovakia in late 1925. In the main treaty, the five western European nations pledged to guarantee the inviolability of the borders between Germany and France and Germany and Belgium as defined in the Treaty of Versailles.
The first World War; An Illustrated History. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-179392-0. Keegan, John (1998). The first World War. London: Random House (UK). ISBN 0-09-1801788. Mortara, G (1925). La Salute pubblica in Italia durante e dopo la Guerra. New Haven: Yale University Press. Nicolle, David (2003). The Italian Army of World War I. Osprey ...
Ulysses S. Grant visited France and the Netherlands in 1877, during a post-presidency world tour. [23]Jimmy Carter, along with Carter Center personnel, met with the minister of foreign assistance in the Netherlands, and also with potential private corporate donors in The Hague, Netherlands, in September 1999, prior to visiting Bamako, Mali, for an assessment of the Center's health and ...
Austro-Hungarian trench at the peak of Ortler, the highest trench in the First World War (3850m). The White War (Italian: Guerra Bianca, German: Gebirgskrieg, Hungarian: Fehér Háború) [2] [3] is the name given to the fighting in the high-altitude Alpine sector of the Italian front during the First World War, principally in the Dolomites, the Ortles-Cevedale Alps and the Adamello-Presanella ...
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