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Marostica (Italian pronunciation: [maˈrɔstika]; Venetian: Maròstega [maˈɾɔsteɡa]), is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. It is mostly famous for its live chess event and for the local cherry variety.
A costumed human chess game has been staged every two years on the second week in September in the Italian city of Marostica, in Province of Vicenza, since 1923.The game commemorates a legendary chess game played in 1454 by two young knights in order to settle which of them would court the lady that both had fallen in love with.
Chanty Marostica, formerly known as Chantel Marostica, is a Canadian stand-up comedian [1] who won SiriusXM Canada's Top Comic competition in 2018 [2] and received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019 for The Chanty Show. [3] Marostica came out as non-binary in 2016, and uses gender-neutral pronouns. [4]
In the 1970s, Carlo Micheli was one of the strongest Italian chess players. He won the Italian Chess Championship twice in a row: 1972 and 1973. Carlo Micheli won the Italian Team Chess Championships with the chess club Circolo Scacchistico Marosticense / VIMAR Marostica in 1993 and 1997.
Marostica or Maròstega is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, northern Italy. Marostica may also refer to: Chanty Marostica, Canadian stand-up comedian; Don Marostica (born 1948), American real estate developer and legislator; Paolo Marostica, Italian lightweight rower
Pages in category "People from Marostica" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Prospero Alpini; B.
She was born in Vallonara di Marostica.At the 1952 Olympics in Oslo Minuzzo was the bronze medalist in the women's downhill competition. [2] At the 1960 Olympics in Squaw Valley she was bronze medalist in the women's giant slalom event.
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