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Fanano
Fanano ( Frignanese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southwest of Bologna and about south of Modena. Fanano borders the following municipalities: Cutigliano, Fiumalbo, Lizzano in Belvedere, Montese, San Marcello Piteglio, Sestola. It is located in the Modenese Apennines. The Monte Cimone is in its territory. Main sights *Watch tower * San Silvestro, a Baroque church * San Colombano, another church * Oratorio della Beata Vergine delle Grazie * Santa Chiara *San Francesco * San Giuseppe Sposo di Maria * Santa Chiara People * Italo Bortolotti, painter * Felix Pedro, born in the small village of Trignano, part of the comune of Fanano. Sister cities * Fairbanks, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Colombano, Fanano
San Colombano is Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic former-parish church located in the town of Fanano in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. History The small ancient church, first documented in the 7th century, is now located adjacent to the present parish church in Fanano. It was founded by monks from the Columban Bobbio abbey. Other sources claim St Anselm established the church on land donated by the Lombard King Astolfo Astolfo (also Astolpho, Estous, and Estouls) is a fictional character in the Matter of France where he is one of Charlemagne's paladins. He is the son of Otto, the King of England (possibly referring to Charles' contemporary Offa of Mercia), .... Anselm then soon left to found the Abbey of Nonantola. The church had a nearby monastery and hospice for pilgrims and the destitute. Rebuilt in 1580, it again was razed after 15 years due to the dilapidation, and re-built by Ottonello Ottonelli. Only the base and substructure date to the earlier churche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oratorio Della Beata Vergine Delle Grazie, Fanano
The Oratorio della Beata Vergine delle Grazie (Oratory of the Blessed Virgin of the Graces), also known as the Oratorio della Madonna del Ponte is a Roman Catholic chapel-like building, or small church, located in the town of Fanano in the province of Modena, region of Emilia-Romagna egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title ..., Italy. It is located near a bridge over the river Fellicarolo. History The oratory was erected in 1650 around an icon placed on an aedicule near the bridge. It was refurbished in the last century, and dedicated to those emigrating from the town. The plaque in front of the church recalls Felice Pedroni, one of the most prominent emigrants from Fanano. The main altar was constructed by the brothers Gherardini and houses a canvas depicting ''God the Fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Silvestro, Fanano
San Silvestro is Baroque-style, Roman Catholic parish church located at Via Abà #9 in the town of Fanano in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The church still has traces of Romanesque architecture in sculpted column capitals (1206) from the crypt and the apse. History A church at the site was supposedly founded by 750 by Sant'Anselmo, who abandoned a post as Duke of Friuli to become a cenobitic monk. The land was ceded by his cousin Astolfo, King of the Lombards. Anselmo later moved to found the abbey of Nonantola. Documentation for the church is only found from the 14th-century. However a fire destroyed that church, and an expanded and re-oriented Baroque-style church was erected in 1612. The new church had a nave with flanking aisles, and was supplemented with various chapels. Construction utilized spolia from the prior edifice. A 20th-century refurbishment attempted to reimpose a Romanesque style to the building. The church houses a ''Madonna and Saints'' by Domenico Pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix Pedro
Felice Pedroni (April 16, 1858 – July 22, 1910), known best to Americans by his Hispanicized alias Felix Pedro, was an Italian immigrant whose discovery of gold in Interior Alaska marked the beginning of the 1902 Fairbanks Gold Rush. Early life Pedro was born April 16, 1858 to a family of subsistence farmers in the small village of Trignano administrated by Fanano. This village is in the Apennine Mountains into the Province of Modena. He was the youngest of six brothers. Pedroni fled home in 1881 following the death of his father. He arrived in New York City and quickly assumed the name Felix Pedro. He traveled to New York City, Ohio, Washington (U.S. state), Washington, British Columbia, and the Yukon, working in each place until he earned enough to travel again. Once in Alaska, Pedro panned for gold in the Fortymile River, Fortymile, the Piledriver Slough near present-day Salcha, and various other waterways, including the "Lost Creek" in which Pedro and his partner Tom Gilmore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Giuseppe Sposo Di Maria, Fanano
San Giuseppe Sposo di Maria is baroque-style, Roman Catholic parish church located in the town of Fanano in the province of Modena, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. History The church was built in 1619, along with the Collegio delle Scuole Pie, by Ottonello Ottonelli. The interiors are richly decorated with polychrome marble. Among the canvases in the interior are a ''Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria'' by Guercino, and a ''Madonna della Ghiara'' attributed to Ludovico Lana Ludovico Lana (c. 1597–1646) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Modena, where he died in 1646. He is also known as ''Lodovico Lana''. He was the director of the Accademia Ducale of Modena. He is said to have been bo .... Other paintings are attributed to Pellegrino da Fanano and Girolamo Vanulli. The nave ceiling was painted by Fermo Forti. From the church there was a corridor accessing the city hall. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Chiara, Fanano
Santa Chiara is a renaissance-style, Roman Catholic church and adjacent Clarissan convent located in the town of Fanano in the province of Modena, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. History The present church is a reconstruction, after the earthquake of 1920, of the classical 16th-century church designed by count Ottonello Ottonelli. The stone façade has a central oculus, and two flanking windows. The interior has two polychrome wood altarpiece frames: one houses an ''Assumption'' (1600) painted by Francesco Cavazzoni Francesco Cavazzone (1559–1612) was an Italian painter of the early- Baroque period. He trained with Ludovico Carracci and Bartolomeo Passarotti Bartolomeo Passarotti or Passerotti (1529–1592) was an Italian painter of the mannerist period, ..., while the other has a ''Madonna and Saints'' by Mastelletta. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francesco, Fanano
San Francesco is 17th-century Roman Catholic church, once attached to a Franciscan monastery, located just outside of the town of Fanano in the province of Modena, region of Emilia-Romagna egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title ..., Italy. The church is now used as the chapel for the town cemetery. The church was originally dedicated to the ''Madonna of the Assumption''. The portico with ionic columns was erected in 1636. The interiors are decorated by Gherardini, Ascanio Magnanini and contemporary stucco artists. monumenti. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Francesco Fanano[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sestola
Sestola ( Sestolese: ; Frignanese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) situated in the Province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southwest of Bologna and about southwest of Modena. It is located near the Monte Cimone and other mountains of the northern Apennines separating Emilia and Tuscany. Sestola borders the following municipalities: Fanano, Fiumalbo, Lizzano in Belvedere, Montecreto, Montese, Pavullo nel Frignano, Riolunato Riolunato (Emilian language#Dialects, Riolunatese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Modena in the Italy, Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southwest of Bologna and about southwest of Modena. It is overlooked from th .... Main sights *Fortress, rebuilt in the 16th century but dating to several centuries before. * Giardino Botanico Alpino "Esperia" * San Nicola di Bari church See also * San Giovanni Battista, Roncoscaglia References External links Official website Cities and to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Cimone
Monte Cimone is the highest mountain in the northern Apennines, of Italy. Geography The mountain has an elevation of 2,165 m and is also the highest point in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. It encompasses the ''comuni'' of Fiumalbo, Sestola, Fanano and Riolunato in the province of Modena. Its interior houses a military structure; for this reason, during the Cold War, access to the peak was forbidden. During World War II it was a German radar site and anti-aircraft gun battery. Later it was used as a communications relay site by the U.S. Air Force, until removed in 2008. Skiing It is a frequented winter ski resort. In the resort there are 31 ski trails for a total length of more than 50 km (the longest trail is 3,6 km) served by 26 lifts. Ski season starts usually at the beginning of December (often in the last week end of November) and ends in the middle of April. The resort is composed by six different area (Passo del Lupo, Polle, Cimoncino, Lago N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairbanks
Fairbanks is a home rule city and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska and the second largest in the state. The 2020 Census put the population of the city proper at 32,515, and the population of the Fairbanks North Star Borough at 95,655 making it the second most populous metropolitan area in Alaska after Anchorage. The Metropolitan Statistical Area encompasses all of the Fairbanks North Star Borough and is the northernmost Metropolitan Statistical Area in the United States, located by road ( by air) south of the Arctic Circle. Fairbanks is home to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, the founding campus of the University of Alaska system. History Native American presence Athabascan peoples have used the area for thousands of years, although there is no known permanent Alaska Native settlement at the site of Fairbanks. An archaeological site excavated on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiumalbo
Fiumalbo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southwest of Bologna and about southwest of Modena. Fiumalbo borders the following municipalities: Coreglia Antelminelli, Abetone Cutigliano, Fanano, Pievepelago Pievepelago ( Frignanese: or ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Modena in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna in the heart of the northern Apennine Mountains. Situated on the ''Scoltenna river'', in a mountain valley, it is a ..., Riolunato, Sestola. History Fiumalbo is a very old mountain village with almost 1 000 years of written history, but its origins are much older and are lost in the centuries. A border town, it has experienced the events that have changed history with detachment and distance, considering those events unrelated to the history of the town. Some sources report that the first inhabitants of the Fiumalbo Valley were the Ligurian-Frinians, who took refuge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montese
Montese ( Frignanese: ) is a town in the province of Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. During World War II, the town was liberated by Brazilian forces on 17 April 1945, after three days of battle against German forces. There are neighborhoods in the Brazilian cities of Fortaleza and Belém named after the Italian city, in homage to the three Brazilian soldiers who died in the battle to take Montese from the Germans during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power .... Sources Cities and towns in Emilia-Romagna {{EmiliaRomagna-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
