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After the war the city was renamed "Cortina d'Ampezzo" (Curtain of the Ampezzo Valley), adopting the name of one of the six villages that made up the territory of Ampezzo, located in the middle of the Ampezzo valley. [21] Cortina d'Ampezzo was designated as a major redoubt and held a large ammunition storage depot (46°36'50"N / 12°09'27"E).
Milan (/ m ɪ ˈ l æ n / mil-AN, US also / m ɪ ˈ l ɑː n / mil-AHN, [5] [6] Milanese: ⓘ; Italian: Milano ⓘ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban population [7] and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo were awarded the 2026 Winter Olympics at the 134th IOC Session on 24 June 2019, beating a joint bid by the Swedish cities of Stockholm and Åre. They will be the first Olympic Games to officially be co-hosted by multiple cities, with Milan primarily hosting ice events, and the remaining events being hosted in ...
Olympic rings are seen near the village of Anterselva where the biathlon discipline will take place during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, in northern Italy, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025.
Milan Cortina Olympics will take place Feb. 6-22, 2026, in northern Italy, with 116 medal events in 16 sports. It's the largest Winter Games yet. With one year to go, Milan Cortina hoping to build ...
Construction work takes place at the Cortina Sliding Center, venue for the bob, luge and skeleton disciplines, at the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Thursday, Jan ...
The Milan Olympic Village is one of the Olympic Villages that will host the athletes participating in the 2026 Winter Olympics and the 2026 Winter Paralympics, which will take place in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo in February and March 2026, alongside the 5 other Olympic villages.
Cortina d'Ampezzo contains four competition venues for five Olympic sports and three Paralympic sports. [8] In addition, the venue for biathlon is located in Antholz. [9] Impresa Pizzarotti has started on construction of a new bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Cortina d'Ampezzo at a cost of €81 million. [10]