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The Two Towers (Italian: Due torri), both leaning, are symbols of Bologna, Italy, [1] and the most prominent of the Towers of Bologna. They are located at the intersection of the roads that lead to the five gates of the old ring wall (mura dei torresotti). The taller one is called the Asinelli.
Piazza Ravegnana viewed from the top of the Asinelli Tower. Between the 12th and the 13th century, Bologna was a city full of towers. Almost all the towers were tall (the highest being 97 metres (318.2 ft)), defensive stone towers.
It is estimated that the best-selling album of all time in Italy is La vita è adesso (1985) by Claudio Baglioni which remained for 27 consecutive weeks in first place in Superclassifica TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, [1] from 16 June 1985 to 12 January 1986 (a record that still stands today) and a total of 90 weeks (18 months) in the top ten with more ...
Irene di Spilimbergo: The Image of a Creative Woman in Late Renaissance Italy, Anne Jacobson Schutte, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp. 42–61; Jacobs, Fredrika Herman. Defining the Renaissance Virtuosa: Women Artists and the Language of Art History and Criticism. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
The bases of the two towers and the reconstructed Roman bridge. The City Gate of Capua (Italian: Porta di Capua or Porta delle due Torri, 'Gate of the Two Towers') was a monumental fortified gate constructed between 1234 and 1239 at Capua, on the road between Naples and Rome, on the orders of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Rototom Sunsplash is a large European reggae festival founded in 1994 in Gaio di Spilimbergo (Pordenone, Italy), and since 2010 held in Benicàssim, a few miles north of Valencia, Spain. It attracts thousands of fans from all over the world, thanks to a cultural and musical program that lasts for up to ten days.
The Donatella are an Italian music and television duo formed by the twins Giulia and Silvia Provvedi (Modena, 1 December 1993). [1]In the autumn of 2012, the Provvedi sisters (with the name Provs Destination) participated at the sixth season of X Factor Italia aired by Sky Uno and hosted by Alessandro Cattelan.
The Two Orphans (Italian:Le due orfanelle) is a 1954 French-Italian historical melodrama film directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starring Myriam Bru, Milly Vitale and André Luguet. [1] It is based on the 1874 play The Two Orphans by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon , one of a large number of film adaptations.