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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 ...
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.
English: Braai-related display inside a Woolworths store in The Constantia Village shopping center, in Constantia, Cape Town, South Africa. Date 19 October 2024
ISTAT Code Comune Population (2005) 078001 Acquaformosa: 1,261 078002 Acquappesa: 2,057 078003 Acri: 21,669 078004 Aiello Calabro: 2,283 078005 Aieta: 878 078006
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.
Closed inside the avenues traced on the old medieval walls, the historic centre of Florence collects the city's most important cultural heritage sites. Delimited by the 14th century wall circuit, built thanks to the economic and commercial power reached at the time, knew its maximum splendor in the following two centuries.
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.