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Accadde a Spoleto | Nel giugno 1948 al giro della Rocca, si decide la ...

November 6, 2020 no comments

June, 1948: the Italian Racewalking Team for the 1948 London Olympic Games decided at the Giro della Rocca 20 June, 1948. The Giro della Rocca becomes the stage of a sporting event of fierce competit...

Accadde a Spoleto: 10-11 settembre 1864

November 1, 2020 no comments

September 10 and 11, 1864: after a decade of complex restoration works, the newly-opened Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto is about to welcome an extraordinary two-day event of music and dance. The absolute pr...

Images from August 1948. The second edition of the Competition for you...

October 30, 2020 no comments

In the words by Adriano Belli, the first years ot the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “From now on, when you hear and read that in Italy opera theatre is dying because of lack of voices, you’d...

At home with the Langobards – Trasimund II

October 19, 2020 no comments

Today we will speak about a man who wanted to govern at all costs the Duchy of Spoleto so much to become duke for 3 times: Trasimund II! In the last few weeks we saw how the centralizing policy of Ki...

The Mille Miglia at Spoleto in 1948. That time when Tazio NuvolariR...

October 16, 2020 no comments

2 May 1948. The first of the two days of the 40th Mille Miglia, a great cross-country car race, renamed as “the most beautiful race in the world”, a mythical, totalizing experience for th...

Beniamino Gigli a Spoleto nel settembre del 1932 e nell’agosto del 193...

October 9, 2020 no comments

Beniamino Gigli at Spoleto in September 1932 and August 1939 | The report on the dailies and periodicals of the time The relationship between Spoleto and Beniamino Gigli – one of the most belov...

La Casina dell’Ippocastano

October 2, 2020 no comments

The Casina dell’Ippocastano is a building designed by Walther Fol, a Swiss engineer who lived and worked in Spoleto at the end of the 19th century. Built in those years as a point of reference ...

Festival internazionale della birra artigianale

September 10, 2020 no comments

L’assessore Ada Urbani:”Abbiamo tutti lavorato con estrema professionalità. A breve inizieremo a ragionare sull’edizione 2021” L’organizzatrice Cristiana Mariani:”Il successo di questi tre giorni dim...

Catalogue of public posters as documents of city chronicle

September 2, 2020 no comments

Friday 29 October 1897: one of the first screenings of the cinematograph, the new technological stunt at the service of the storytelling through images that is astonishing the world, is held at the T...

Accadde a Spoleto – 27 maggio 1948. Quando Gino Bartali tagliò i...

August 25, 2020 no comments

È giovedì 27 maggio 1948. Gino Bartali, una delle figure chiave dello sport italiano di ogni tempo, che corre per i verdi colori della Legnano, una delle più squadre ciclistiche più decorate di sempr...