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L'Avventura is a 1960 Italian drama film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Developed from a story by Antonioni with co-writers Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra, the film is about the disappearance of a young woman during a boating trip in the Mediterranean, and the subsequent search for her by her lover and her best friend. It was filmed on location in Rome, the Aeolian Islands, and Sicily in 1959 under difficult financial and physical conditions. The film is noted for its unusual pacing, which emphasizes visual composition, mood, and character over traditional narrative development.
Adrano, ancient Adranon, is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Catania on the east coast of Sicily.
The Battle of Troina was an important battle that took place between 31 July and 6 August 1943, as part of the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II. Forces of the U.S. II Corps, part of the U.S. Seventh Army, under George S. Patton, engaged in fierce fighting around the town of Troina in the central portion of Sicily along the Caronie Mountains. The battle focused around the numerous hills and mountains surrounding Troina which the Germans had heavily fortified and used as bases for direct and indirect fire.
Varzim Sport Club is a Portuguese football team based in Póvoa de Varzim, near Porto in the north of the country. The club was founded on 25 December 1915, and has played at the Estádio do Varzim Sport Club since it was founded. The club plays in the second tier Liga Portugal 2, after winning promotion from the Campeonato Nacional in 2015. The club has played for a total of 21 seasons at the top level of Portuguese football, eight in a row from 1963. It reached the semi-finals of the Taça de Portugal on three occasions, in 1978, 1980 and 1985.
Troina is a comune (municipality) in the province of Enna, in the Italian region of Sicily. It is located in the Nebrodi Park. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia.
Cerami is a comune in Sicily, southern Italy, part of the Province of Enna. The town itself is perched on a mountaintop 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) above sea level. A river also named Cerami flows through this area.
San Teodoro is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Palermo and about 80 kilometres (50 mi) southwest of Messina.
The Simeto is a 113-kilometre (70 mi) long river in Sicily, southern Italy. At 116 kilometres (72 mi), it is the second longest river on the island after the Salso, but the most important in terms of watershed. It flows through the province of Enna and the province of Catania.
Silvester of Troina was a Basilian monk, who originally entered the monastery at Bari, Italy, but fled when he was to be appointed abbot. Silvester then lived the rest of his life as a hermit. This St Silvester is patron saint of the Sicilian town of Troina, where he is putatively buried in the church of San Silvestro.
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Filippo Tamagnini is a Sammarinese politician serving as Captain Regent with Gaetano Troina for the October 2023 to April 2024 political term. He previously served from April to October 2011, sharing the post with Maria Luisa Berti.
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Judith d'Évreux was a Norman noblewoman and Countess of Sicily.
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Vincenzo Mustacciolo is an Italian football player. He plays for Athletic Club Palermo.
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Sicilian Peasant Telling an American Officer Which Way the Germans Had Gone. Near Troina. Italy. August 1943 is a black and white photograph taken by Robert Capa in Sicily on 4 August 1943. Capa had come to Sicily in late July 1943 to document the Allies invasion of the Italian island and took many photographs related to the conflict, presenting the American soldiers, the German invaders, the Italian partisans and the civilian population.
San Silvestro is a Roman Catholic parish church located on Via Sccaone, along SS120, in the town of Troina, in the province of Enna, region of Sicily, Italy.
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