Arco may refer to:

Places

Arco, Trentino Arco is a ''comune'' in Trentino-Alto Adige in northern Italy. The town is faced on one side by sheer limestone cliffs jutting up like a wall protecting it and its ancient hilltop castle. King Francis II of the Two Sicilies died here in 1894. ...

, a town in Trentino, Italy * Arco, Idaho, in the United States *

Arco, Minnesota Arco is a city in Lincoln County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 75 at the 2010 census. History Arco was platted in 1900, and named after Arcola, in Italy. A post office has been in operation at Arco since 1900. Geography Acc ...

, a city in the United States * ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California, home of the Sacramento Kings

Companies

ARCO (brand) ARCO ( ) is a brand of gasoline stations currently owned by Marathon Petroleum after BP sold its rights. BP commercializes the brand in Northern California, Oregon and Washington, while Marathon has rights for the rest of the United States an ...

, a brand of gasoline service stations that is currently owned by Marathon Petroleum in Mexico and parts of the United States * ARCO Chemical, a chemical company formed in 1986 by spinning off a subsidiary from the Atlantic Richfield Company * ARCO Group, a Belgian cooperative holding company *

Arco Publishing ARCO ( ) is a brand of gasoline stations currently owned by Marathon Petroleum after BP sold its rights. BP commercializes the brand in Northern California, Oregon and Washington, while Marathon has rights for the rest of the United States an ...

, an American publishing company founded in New York in 1942 *

Atlantic Richfield Company ARCO ( ) is a brand of gasoline stations currently owned by Marathon Petroleum after BP sold its rights. BP commercializes the brand in Northern California, Oregon and Washington, while Marathon has rights for the rest of the United States an ...

, the Atlantic Richfield Company, formerly an independent American petroleum company (1966-2000), currently a subsidiary of BP * ARCO Solar, a former subsidiary of the Atlantic Richfield Company that manufactured

Music

* ''Arco'', a directive in music for string instruments to return to bowing after playing pizzicato; see bowing * Associate of the Royal College of Organists, a professional diploma for church organists awarded by the Royal College of Organists *

Arco (band) Arco are a British band noted for unusually slow, quiet, poetic music: a gig review in national newspaper ''The Guardian'' suggested "an hour in arco's company is the aural equivalent of a day in a flotation tank". Similarly, a review in '' Q'' ...

, a British slowcore band

People

Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley Anton von Padua Alfred Emil Hubert Georg Graf von Arco auf Valley (5 February 1897 – 29 June 1945), commonly known as Anton Arco-Valley, was a German far-right activist, Bavarian nationalism, Bavarian nationalist and nobleman. He assassina ...

(1897–1945), commonly known as Anton Arco-Valley, murdered Kurt Eisner * Georg von Arco (1869–1940), early wireless pioneer *

Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco (German Johann Baptist, Graf von Arco) (c. 1650 – 21 March 1715, Munich) was a diplomat and Generalfeldmarschall in the service of the Electorate of Bavaria during the Great Turkish War and the War of the Spanish Succ ...

(c. 1650–1715), a diplomat and Generalfeldmarschall * Johann Philipp d'Arco (1652–1704), a soldier who served Habsburg Austria

Other uses

* ''Arco'' (ARDM-5), a type of U.S. Navy floating drydock *

Arco (lamp) The Arco lamp is a modern overhead lamp designed by brothers Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni for Flos in 1962. The lamp is characterized by a suspended spun aluminum pendant attached to an upright slab of Carrara marble via a large, arching ...

, a 1962 design, subject of 2006 intellectual property dispute * A shortened form of arcology * A male given name in the Netherlands, for example: Arco Jochemsen, a Dutch footballer

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