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Guendalina Buffon
Guendalina Buffon (born ) is an Italian retired volleyball player. She was part of the Italy women's national volleyball team. She participated in the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship. Personal life Guendalina was born into a family of Italian athletes: her mother Maria Stella Masocco was a discus thrower, and her father Adriano was a weightlifter. Following their athletic retirement, they subsequently worked as P.E. school teachers. Guendalina's sister also played volleyball for the Italian national team; their younger brother Gianluigi is a former professional football goalkeeper who played for the Italy national football team for two decades and won the 2006 FIFA World Cup. References External links Volleybox 1973 births Living people Italian women's volleyball players Sportspeople from Carrara Guendalina Guendalina (the Italian form of the female given name Gwendolen/Gwendoline/Gwendolyn) may refer to: People * Guendalina Buffon (born 1973), It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carrara
Carrara ( ; ; , ) is a town and ''comune'' in Tuscany, in central Italy, of the province of Massa and Carrara, and notable for the white or blue-grey Carrara marble, marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some Boxing the compass, west-northwest of Florence. Its motto is Latin: '' "" ("My strength is in the wheel"), a reference firstly to the marble shipping industry from Roman times onwards. Toponymy The word ''Carrara'' likely comes from the pre-Roman (Celtic languages, Celtic or Ligurian language (ancient), Ligurian) element ''kar'' (stone), through Latin ''carrariae'' meaning 'quarries'. History There were known settlements in the area as early as the ninth century BC, when the Apuan Ligures lived in the region. The current town originated from the borough built to house workers in the marble quarries created by the ancient Rome, Romans after their conquest of Liguria in the early second century BC. Carrara has been linked with the process of quarrying and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
