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  Italian Holiday Home, Villa and Apartment Rentals in Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Tuscany (Italian Toscana) is a region in central Italy, bordering on Latium to the south, Umbria and Marche to the east, Emilia-Romagna and Liguria to the north, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west.
The Amalfi Coast, or Costiera Amalfitana in Italian, is a stretch of coastline on the southern side of the Sorrentine Peninsula of Italy (Province of Salerno) extending from Positano in the west to Vietri sul Mare in the east.
Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma) is the capital of Italy and of its Latium region.
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  Garda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Garda Síochána, the national police of the Republic of Ireland.
Garda (Italian commune), a commune on the shores of Lake Garda in northern Italy.
Garda, Sweden, a town on Gotland Island, Sweden.
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The bulk of Italian export trade is conducted with the countries of the European Union and with the United States, Switzerland, Austria, and countries of the former Soviet Union.
Italian hopes were dashed when at the end of April the pope refused to join in the war, in mid-May the revolution in Naples collapsed, and on July 24 the Piedmontese were defeated in battle by the Austrians.
In 1990 the Italian Communists renamed themselves the Democratic Party of the Left, playing down their former atheism and emphasis on class conflict in favour of such issues as the environment, feminism, and the nagging economic disparity between the industrial north and the poverty-ridden south.
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 Peschiera del Garda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peschiera del Garda is a commune in the province of Verona, in Veneto, Italy.
The fortress is on an island in the Mincio River at its outlet from Lake Garda.
The commune is part of the Associazione città del vino, lit.
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 Wine Glossary Wine Glossary and how to pronounce wine terms.
The northernmost commune in the Cote de Nuits
A Vin Rose commune in the Cotes du Rhone
A white wine commune in the Cote de Beaune
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 The Italian Lakes :: View topic - Religious History of Lombardy
It is only too true that the communes made bad use of their early liberty, and of their budding civil and commercial life, waging war against one another through sheer greed of power, until they mutually destroyed their power.
This autocracy which destroyed the constitutions of the communes rallied the towns of Lombardy for a life and death struggle: Milan was again besieged, razed to the ground, and its inhabitants dispersed throughout the neighbouring villages (1161).
Milan, Brescia, and nearly all the communes in which the burghers held control, were on the Guelph side; those wherein the nobles and the classes privileged by the emperors had the upper hand, like Pavia and Cremona, declared for the Ghibellines.
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 Italy, Rome, Milan, Turin, Venice, Naples, Cagliari, Brescia, Vicenza, Genova, Bari, Bologna, Palermo, Catania, Ancona, ...
Italy (Italian Italia), republic in southern Europe, bounded on the north by Switzerland and Austria; on the east by Slovenia and the Adriatic Sea; on the south by the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea; on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ligurian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea; and on the northwest by France.
The Italians retreated to the Piave River; reinforced by small numbers of French and British troops, they consolidated their defenses and were able to fight off an Austrian force that attacked in June 1918.
In 1991 the Italian Communists renamed themselves the Democratic Party of the Left, downplaying their former atheism and emphasis on class conflict in favor of such issues as the environment, feminism, and the economic disparity between the country's industrial north and the poverty-ridden south.
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 Allusions
Having become an exponent of Italian national consciousness, Julius II proposed to drive the French from Italy, but his second war, which lasted from September 1510 to May 1511, was unsuccessful.
Italian family that produced two famous soldiers of fortune and founded a dynasty that ruled Milan for almost a century.
It was later subject to many barbarian attacks, became an independent commune at the beginning of the 12th century, and withstood an eight-month siege by Frederick II in 1240-41.
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 Lombardy articles on Encyclopedia.com
Lombard League LOMBARD LEAGUE [Lombard League] an alliance formed in 1167 among the communes of Lombardy to resist Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I when he attempted to assert his imperial authority in Lombardy.
Previously the communes had been divided, some favoring the emperor and others favoring the pope.
Situated in the Alpine foothills, near several Italian lakes, it is a popular tourist center.
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 FRAGLIA VELA RIVA - Riva del Garda - Lago di Garda - Trentino - Trento - Italy
With its structure, bridge in castle, similar to the cover of a ship, moored into the Italian garden of the magnolias and the olive-trees to side of the Beach of olive-trees, an isolated Mediterranean island that is developed with the lake-front up to the hilly olive-grove of the Brione.
That to the rudder there is a god or that you deal with a deadly commune, for sure the one who is found to the edge of a boat or ship marvelously absorbed by natural elements exploits, with very relaxed doing, the elements of the nature.
The Association SS Benacense organizes the first race on the Garda Lake with the partecipatin of n° 12 sailing boats and n° 4 cutter.
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 Main regions of Italy including Tuscany, Veneto, Campania, Piedmont, Lombardi and Sicily   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Trento is a bridge between the Italian and Central-European cultures, a natural connection between north and south.
A bridge between the Italian and Central European cultures, a city full of arts with a rich historical heritage, an alpine city in the heart of the mountains, where men live in close contact to nature.
The main feature of Castel Romano, which is a challenge to time despite the Ital­ian cannon-shots in 1915-1918, is a cas­tle tower built on a polygonal plan with an entrance facing south, about six meters high and originally fitted with a drawbridge.
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 Garda - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
An Garda Síochána, the National Police of Ireland.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
You can find it there under the keyword Garda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garda)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gardaandaction=history).
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 Vitaille Recipe Recources and Food Related Information
In the modern world barley is used mostly for animal feed and for malt for brewing and distilling; only a small proportion is used for soup, cereal, and bread.
Barolo An Italian red wine from the Piedmont, south of Turin, made from the Nebbiolo grape; deep, full-bodied, and slow-maturing, it is an exceptional wine.
Chianti (It.) A red Italian table wine, ranging from pleasant to exceptional; very popular abroad as well as in its native Tuscany; Chianti Classico is particularly distinguished; Chianti bottles, or fiaschi are shipped in their familiar woven-straw coverings.
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 Lake Garda: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Villages that lie along its coasts: Sirmione Sirmione is a commune in the province of brescia, in lombardy....
Lake Bracciano Lake bracciano (in italian lago di bracciano) is a lake of volcanic origin and it is set in the italian region lazio, 32 km nw of rome....
Lake Maggiore Lake maggiore (in italian: lago maggiore), also called lake verbano, is the most westerly of the three large prealpine lakes of europe and the second largest after lake garda....
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 ENCLOPEDIA
Brolio A celebrated and ancient vineyard in the Italian Chianti district in Tuscany; the wine is robust and long-lived.
Caldaro A town in the Italian Tirol that produces a number of light and pleasant red and white wines.
commune (Fr.) A township or village and its surrounding land; fre-
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 Peschiera del Garda Hotel Lago di Garda Alberghi - Lake Garda - Gardasee - Green Park Hotel
Il Green Park Hotel a Peschiera del Garda è un albergo a 3 stelle a ottocento metri dal centro storico e dal Lungolago di Peschiera del Garda.
Peschiera del Garda is a commune in the province of Verona, in Veneto, Italy.
The fortress is on an island in the Mincio River at its outlet from Lake Garda.
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 TravelingEd.org - Bringing the World to Your Classroom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Italian wine production totaled about 6.4 million cubic meters (1.7 billion gallons) in the early 1990s.
In 2001 the Italian permanent armed forces totaled 216,800 people, with an army of 128,000, a navy of 38,000, an air force of 50,800, and a central staff.
The despairing mood of the Italians was meanwhile aggravated by preliminary decisions of the Big Four (France, Britain, the United States, and the USSR), as revealed at the Paris Peace Conference in July 1946.
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 Trips 2 Italy | Travel guide and Information about History of Como in the Italian region of Lombardy Italy | Plan your ...
This description page of Como, in the Italian region of Lombardy, will guide you in planning your trip to Italy and help you find useful travel information about the history of this Italian city.
Como is situated in a strategic position at the end of an important road to Piedmont, at the beginning of the road up to the mountain passes, and at the end of the long Lake Como.
It served Rome as an important military base on the mountain border and later as a communication center between imperial headquarters in Milan and the regions of the north.
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 Career Plus: Working and Living in Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Italian equivalent of a Jobcentre is a Seziona Circoscrizionale par l'Impiego e il Collocamento in Agricoltura (SCICA).
Today, all the Italian islands from the largest such as Sicily and Sardinia to the smallest and most remote such as Lampedusa and Pantelleria, are linked to mainland Italy and the other islands by ferry adn hydrofoil services which vary in frequency according to season.
The most popular national sport is undoubtedly football ("calcio") and Italian teams such as Juventus, Inter and AC Milan, Napoli, Lazio and Roma are amongst the teams who play in what is often called "the most exciting league in the world".
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 Hotel Poiano, Gardalake — Residence and apartments
The tower known as "Colombara" dates back to the early fourteenth century and beside it stands the rural building originally occupied by the tenant farmers working on the Poiano estate, with the adjacent stable and pigsty.
Buzzards used to fly down to this area in the evenings from Rocca di Garda and the top of Monte Luppia, known as “Sengia”, to find food.
All the houses are painted in the lively red and yellow hues which are typical of the countryside around Garda.
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 AllRefer.com - Italy : Land and People, Italy (Italian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Northern Italy also has a flourishing tourist trade on the Italian Riviera, in the Alps (including the Dolomites), on the shores of its beautiful lakes (Lago Maggiore, Lake Como, and Lake Garda), and in Venice.
The Italian peninsula, bootlike in shape and traversed in its entire length by the Apennines (which continue on into Sicily), comprises central Italy (Marche, Tuscany, Umbria, and Latium regions) and southern Italy (Campania, Basilicata, Abruzzi, Molise, Calabria, and Apulia regions).
The great majority of the population speaks Italian (including several dialects); there are small German-, French-, and Slavic-speaking minorities.
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 Trieste, Italia (Italy)
It pronounces "Tree-ae-steen." Trieste is unusual among Italian cities in that Italian and the local dialect are spoken in the city center and Slovenian is spoken in many of the immediate
The city was a very real part of Mitteleuropa, with a cosmopolitan mix of Italian, German and Slavic cultures, and a feeling of being a border town that it retains today.
The thought of an Italian population under Austrian domination was an offense for
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 Chapter XIX Liberation of the North and Problems Not Settled by Victory
The Italian Government in Rome may not have the entire confidence of the CLN's in the North and, at best, their influence there may be subject to fluctuation.
Shortly after the first of May a new phase of AMG began; this was due to the establishment of military government in cities and communities which had not experienced the ravages of war and which saw a, victorious army sweep past hard on the heels of a flying enemy.
The Italian Government expressed willingness to continue to subsidize through the Cassa Integrazione, and workers' and employers' representatives reaffirmed in the Milan Agreement of 8th July, 1945, the ban on discharges except in specified cases.
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 Garda | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
An Garda Síochána, the national police of the Republic of Ireland.
Garda (Italian commune), a commune on the shores of Lake Garda in northern Italy.
Garda, lake in northern Italy, the largest lake in Italy
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 Vitus: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He was one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers The fourteen holy helpers are a group of saints formerly venerated together in roman catholicism because prayer to them was thought to be particularly effective, especially against various diseases....
- 1540) was an italian religious leader and saint born in desenzano del garda, province of brescia....
Jerome Emiliani Jerome emiliani (or jerome aemilian) (1481 - 1537) was an italian humanitarian and saint....
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 Trips 2 Italy | Travel guide and Information about History of Mantua in the Italian region of Lombardy Italy | Plan ...
This description page of Mantua, in the Italian region of Lombardy, will guide you in planning your trip to Italy and help you find useful travel information about the history of this Italian city.
Dominated first by the Bonacolsi family than the Gonzagas, the city grew rich by collecting tolls from the rivers, and from the stability provided by its setting and the protection from the emperor who used viewed Mantua as an important buffer between Venice and Milan.
One of the most famous patrons was Isabella d’Este who was married to Gianfrancesco II, who led the Italians to defeat at Fornovo in 1494.
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 garda - OneLook Dictionary Search
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Garda, garda : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
Phrases that include garda: lake garda, garda lake, an garda siochána, an garda síochana, an garda síochána, more...
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 WebRoots Library U.S. Miscellaneous   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The lines of communication by locomotive-train and diligence lead generally over safer ground, and it is only when they ascend the Alpine passes and traverse the mountain chains, that scenes somewhat resembling those just described fall under the eye of the ordinary traveller.
In Provence, "several communes determined, about ten years ago, to reserve the soils thus wasted, that is, to abandon them for a certain time, to spontaneous vegetation, which was not slow in making its appearance."-Becquerel, Des Climats, p.
The old chroniclers contain frequent notices of such calamities, and Giovanni Villani even records the destruction of fifty houses and the loss of many lives by a slide of what seems to have been a spur of the hill of San Giorgio in the city of Florence, in the year 1284.
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 Wine Messenger - Ca' del Baio Langhe Chardonnay Sermine 2004
Their winery is located near Alba and they are fortunate to own land in some of the best vineyards of Barbaresco: Asili in the commune of Barbaresco and Valgrande in the commune of Trieso.
It is hard to find consistently good Barbaresco at reasonable prices, but their wines have impressed us a lot.
The end result is a refined and subtle mélange of oak and tropical fruit flavors.
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