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BARD – Forte di Bard Valle D’AostaFort Bard, also known as Bard Fort, is a fortified complex built in the 19th century by the House of Savoy on a rocky prominence above Bard, a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy. Fort Bard has been completely rest [...]
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BARD – Forte di Bard Valle D’Aosta – CastleThe fort, which is at the entrance to the Aosta Valley, is located in a narrow gorge above the Dora Baltea river. It has been used for millennia to control the historic route between Italy and France. The current fortifications were built by C [...]
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CARAVAGGIO – BERGAMO – Santuario di Caravaggio – The AppearanceThe Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Caravaggio Source, in the province of Bergamo and the Diocese of Cremona, is a huge complex built in the sixteenth century on the site of a miraculous apparition of the Virgin to a peasant girl. For centuries an [...]
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CARAVAGGIO – BERGAMO – Santuario di Caravaggio – The Appearance SculptureThe apparition was reported by Giovannette, daughter of Pietr Vaccli and wife of Francesco Varoli. She said that on May 26, 1432, Mary appeared in a field in Caravaggio, in Northern Italy, in the region of Milan; and said that her son was angr [...]
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CARAVAGGIO – BERGAMO – Santuario di Caravaggio Bergamo – BasilicaThe Sanctuary dates back to the XV Century, but it was rebuilt between the XVII and XVIII Centuries following Pellegrino Tibaldi’s project: it is a popular destination for pilgrimages, particularly on May 26th, the day of the miraculous appari [...]
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CARAVAGGIO – BERGAMO – Santuario di Caravaggio Bergamo – Basilica – InteriorThe Sanctuary of Caravaggio is a monumental religious building located in the territory of the town of Caravaggio in Lombardy, and dedicated to Our Lady of the Fountain. The erection of the Marian shrine, strongly backed by Archbishop Carlo Bo [...]
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NICHELINO – The Stupinigi hunting lodgeThe Palazzina di Caccia of Stupinigi, the Hunting Residence of Stupinigi is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy in northern Italy, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Built as a royal hunting lodge in the early 18th cen [...]
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NICHELINO – The Stupinigi Hunting Lodge – The Deern the outside, the dome is decorated with a sculpture of a deer by Francesco Ladatte. This work, like other paintings, frescoes and statues, was meant to symbolise the original function of the building. The Stupinigi Hunting lodge was a specta [...]
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OROPA – Oropa 1620-2020 – V IncoronazioneEvery 100 years, starting from 1620, the solemn gesture of the Coronation of the Madonna of Oropa is repeated. This event will be celebrated in 2020 for the fifth time. Inheriting this tradition does not mean repeating a gesture or a pharaonic [...]
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OROPA – The Black Virgin of OropaThe Black Virgin of Oropa, is a statue of the Virgin Mary located in the Sanctuary of Oropa, a Roman Catholic devotional complex in the comune of Biella, Piedmont, northern Italy. The original image of the Black Virgin of Monte Oropa was made [...]
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SOMMA LOMBARDO – Volandia Parco Museo del Volo – Chinook HelikopterThe CH-47 Chinook is a medium helicopter capable of carrying loads com- parable to those of aircraft. It is used for military and commercial transport and for disaster relief. Conceived in 1956 in reply to a US Army battlefield mobility requir [...]
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SOMMA LOMBARDO – Volandia Parco Museo del Volo – Moon LandingExplore the cosmos at VOLANDIA: walk between planets and satellites, observe the sky with the planetarium and explore all the missions that mankind has done to conquer space, from Russian cosmonauts through the Apollo program, which brought th [...]
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TURIN – The Mole Antonelliana – Torino 1861The Mole Antonelliana is a major landmark building in Turin, Italy, named after its architect, Alessandro Antonelli. A mole in Italian is a building of monumental proportions. Construction began in 1863, soon after Italian unification, and was [...]
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TURIN – The Mole Antonelliana – Torino 1861An architectural landmark of the city of Turin, it was initially conceived as a synagogue, before being bought by the Municipality of Turin and made into a monument to national unity. Planned and begun by architect Alessandro Antonelli in 1863 [...]
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TURIN – TutankhamunThe Museo Egizio is a museum in Turin, Italy, specializing in Egyptian archaeology and anthropology. It is home to what is regarded as one of the largest collections of Egyptian antiquities outside of Egypt. The first object having an associat [...]
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