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In 1887, the sculptor Ettore Ferrari designed a statue of the poet which gave its name to this square in the old town. In 1916, during the occupation of Dobruja by the Central Powers, it was taken down by Bulgarian troops, but was later reinstated by the Germans. [27] There is an exact replica of the statue in Sulmona, Ovid's hometown in Italy.
Nocera Superiore (Neapolitan: Nucèrë or Nucèrä Superiórë) is a town and comune in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy.. It was the core of the ancient city of Nuceria Alfaterna [], later known as Nuceria Constantia [], Nuceria Christianorum [] and then Nuceria Paganorum [] (Italian: Nocera dei Pagani), which also included the nowadays territories of ...
This is an alphabetical list of the 7,918 Italian municipalities . [1] These represent the fundamental municipal units of the local government system of the country. Contents:
On 7 July 2008, the Bernina line and the Albula railway line, which also forms part of the RhB, were recorded in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, under the name Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes. The whole site is a cross-border joint Swiss-Italian heritage area.
In Sense and Sensibility (1811), Jane Austen's character Mrs Jennings recommends a glass of "the finest old Constantia wine" for the broken-hearted Marianne, on the grounds that it helped her late husband's colicky gout; Elinor, though amused by the incongruity, still drinks the wine to try "its healing powers on a disappointed heart" – her own.
In 2008, Mantua's centro storico (old town) and the nearby comune of Sabbioneta were declared by UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family between 1328 and 1708 made it one of the main artistic, cultural , and especially musical hubs of Northern Italy and of Italy as a whole.
See Constantia for namesakes. The Diocese of Constantia (in Scythia) is a former bishopric and present Latin Catholic titular see.. The diocese once had its episcopal see in present Constanța (capital of the Romanian part of Dobruja region by the Black Sea), Constantia (in Scythia) in Latin, Κωνστάντια in Greek, which is Ancient Tomis, until the Byzantines renamed it.
However, the arrival of the Aragonese kingdom to Southern Italy, spurred turbulent struggles between French, Spanish and Italians. These wars provoked death and destruction in the whole south of Italy: the Sack of Molfetta at the hands of the French, 18–19 July 1529, was an episode that stalled the economic rebirth of the city.