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1985 –present. Pétanque (French: [petɑ̃k] ⓘ, locally in Provence [peˈtãᵑkə]; Occitan: petanca [peˈtaŋkɔ] ⓘ; Catalan: petanca [pəˈtaŋkə, peˈtaŋka]) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports (along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls, crown green bowling). In these sports, players or teams play ...
Calcio storico fiorentino (also known as calcio storico, calcio in livrea or calcio in costume) is an early form of football that originated during the Middle Ages in Italy. [1] Once widely played, the sport is thought to have started in the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. There it became known as the giuoco del calcio fiorentino or simply ...
The Italian school is continued by Filippo Vadi (1482–1487) and Pietro Monte (1492, Latin with Italian and Spanish terms). Three early (before George Silver) natively English swordplay texts exist, but are all very obscure and from uncertain dates; they are generally thought to belong to the latter half of the 15th century.
Bocce (/ ˈbɒtʃi /, [1][2] or / ˈbɒtʃeɪ /, [3] Italian: [ˈbɔttʃe]), sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, [4] bocci, [5] or boccie, [1] is a ball sport belonging to the boules family. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is closely related to English bowls and French pétanque, with a common ancestry from ancient games played in ...
As Latin-suited cards, Italian and Spanish suited cards use swords (spade), cups (coppe), coins (denari), and clubs (bastoni). All Italian suited decks have three face cards per suit: the fante (Knave), cavallo (Knight), and re (King), unless it is a tarocchi deck in which case a donna or regina (Queen) is inserted between the cavallo and re.
Football in Italy. Football (Italian: calcio [ˈkaltʃo] ⓘ) is the most popular sport in Italy. The Italy national football team is considered one of the best national teams in the world [citation needed]. They have won the FIFA World Cup four times (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), trailing only Brazil (with five), runners-up in two finals both ...
The most popular sport in Italy is football. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Italy's national football team is one of the world's most successful teams with four FIFA World Cup victories (1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006) and two UEFA Euro victories (1968 and 2021). [ 3 ] Italian clubs have won 48 major European trophies, making Italy the second most successful country in ...
Monument in Pamplona Runners surround the bulls on Estafeta Street. A running of the bulls (Spanish: encierro, from the verb encerrar, 'to corral, to enclose'; Occitan: abrivado, literally 'haste, momentum'; Catalan: bous al carrer 'bulls in the street', or correbous 'bull-runner') is an event that involves running in front of a small group of bulls, typically six [1] but sometimes ten or more ...