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Pietrasanta, the Glossary

Pietrasanta is a town and comune on the coast of northern Tuscany in Italy, in the province of Lucca.^[1]

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Municipalities of the Province of Lucca

Ancient Rome

In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.

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Apuan Alps

The Apuan Alps (Alpi Apuane) are a mountain range in northern Tuscany, Italy.

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Écaussinnes

Écaussinnes (Les Scassenes; Les Scåssenes) is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium.

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Carlo Carli (Italian politician)

Carlo Carli (born 13 December 1945, Pietrasanta, Lucca) is an Italian politician.

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Cesare Galeotti

Cesare Galeotti (5 June 1872, Pietrasanta - 19 February 1929, Paris) was an Italian composer, conductor, and concert pianist.

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Charles VIII of France

Charles VIII, called the Affable (l'Affable; 30 June 1470 – 7 April 1498), was King of France from 1483 to his death in 1498.

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Christian Dalle Mura

Christian Dalle Mura (born 2 February 2002) is an Italian footballer who plays as a centre back for club Ternana on loan from Fiorentina.

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Comune

A comune (comuni) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality.

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Corinna Dentoni

Corinna Dentoni (born 30 July 1989) is a former tennis player with a highest career ranking of 132 in the singles category.

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Damien Hirst

Damien Steven Hirst (né Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector.

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David Philippaerts

David Philippaerts (born 7 December 1983 in Pietrasanta) is an Italian former professional motocross racer of Italian and Belgian descent.

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Diego Romanini

Diego Romanini (born 30 December 1978 in Pietrasanta) is an Italian auto racing driver.

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Duomo

Duomo is an Italian term for a church with the features of, or having been built to serve as a cathedral, whether or not it currently plays this role.

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Father Eugenio Barsanti (12 October 1821 – 19 April 1864), also named Nicolò, was an Italian engineer, who together with Felice Matteucci of Lucca invented the first version of the internal combustion engine in 1853, Florence.

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Felice Matteucci

Felice Matteucci (February 12, 1808 – September 13, 1887) was an Italian hydraulic engineer who co-invented an internal combustion engine with Eugenio Barsanti.

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Fernando Botero

Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2023) was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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Giosuè Carducci

Giosuè Alessandro Giuseppe Carducci (27 July 1835 – 16 February 1907) was an Italian poet, writer, literary critic and teacher.

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Giulio Donati

Giulio Donati (born 5 February 1990) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a right-back.

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Grenzach-Wyhlen

Grenzach-Wyhlen is a municipality in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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Hanneke Beaumont

Hanneke Beaumont (born 1947 Maastricht, the Netherlands) is a Dutch sculptor known for her large scale figurative works in terracotta, bronze and cast iron.

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Håkon Anton Fagerås

Håkon Anton Fagerås (born 17 July 1975) is a Norwegian sculptor.

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Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist.

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History of Florence

Florence (Firenze) weathered the decline of the Western Roman Empire to emerge as a financial hub of Europe, home to several banks including that of the politically powerful Medici family.

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House of Medici

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first consolidated power in the Republic of Florence under Cosimo de' Medici during the first half of the 15th century.

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Igor Mitoraj

Igor Mitoraj (Polish pronunciation:; 26 March 1944 – 6 October 2014) was a Polish artist and sculptor.

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Internal combustion engine

An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit.

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Irene Fornaciari

Irene Fornaciari (born 24 December 1983) is an Italian singer-songwriter.

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Italian National Institute of Statistics

The Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istituto nazionale di statistica; Istat) is the primary source of official statistics in Italy.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Jørgen Haugen Sørensen

Jørgen Haugen Sørensen (3 October 1934 – 18 November 2021) was one of Denmark's most eminent sculptors.

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Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist.

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Julia Vance

Julia Gina Plahte Vance (born 13 July 1968) is a Norwegian sculptor.

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Kathleen Jones (writer)

Kathleen Jones (born 1946) is an English poet and biographer.

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Kirsten Ortwed

Kirsten Møller Ortwed (born 28 May 1948) is a Danish artist, now based in Cologne, Germany.

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Leonardo Massoni

Leonardo Massoni (born 17 February 1987) is an Italian footballer who plays for Italian club Massese.

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Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Leopold IILeopoldo Giovanni Giuseppe Francesco Ferdinando Carlo, Leopold Johann Joseph Franz Ferdinand Karl, English: Leopold John Joseph Francis Ferdinand Charles.

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Lombards

The Lombards or Longobards (Longobardi) were a Germanic people who conquered most of the Italian Peninsula between 568 and 774.

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Luca Tesconi

Luca Tesconi (born 3 January 1982) is an Italian sports shooter who won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

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Malaria

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that affects vertebrates.

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Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.

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Massimo Mallegni

Massimo Mallegni (born 28 November 1968 in Pietrasanta) is an Italian politician.

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.

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Montgomery, Alabama

Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County.

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Morten Søndergaard

Morten Søndergaard (3 October 1964 in Copenhagen) is a Danish writer, translator, editor and artist.

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Neil Estern

Neil Carl Estern (April 18, 1926 – July 11, 2019) was an American sculptor.

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Nicola Vizzoni

Nicola Vizzoni (born 4 November 1973 in Pietrasanta, Province of Lucca) is a male hammer thrower from Italy.

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Ottavio Barsanti

Ottavio Barsanti (c.1826–23 May 1884) was an Italian Franciscan priest, writer, and missionary in New Zealand.

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Pisa

Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. Pietrasanta and Pisa are Cities and towns in Tuscany.

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Pope Leo X

Pope Leo X (Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 14751 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death, in December 1521.

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Province of Lucca

The province of Lucca (provincia di Lucca) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy.

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Republic of Genoa

The Republic of Genoa (Repúbrica de Zêna; Repubblica di Genova; Res Publica Ianuensis) was a medieval and early modern maritime republic from the years 1099 to 1797 in Liguria on the northwestern Italian coast.

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Republic of Lucca

The Republic of Lucca (Repubblica di Lucca) was a medieval and early modern state that was centered on the Italian city of Lucca in Tuscany, which lasted from 1160 to 1805.

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Robert Kubica

Robert Józef Kubica (born 7 December 1984) is a Polish racing and rally driver, competing for AF Corse in the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Romano Cagnoni

Romano Cagnoni (Pietrasanta, Italy, 9 November 1935 – 30 January 2018) was an Italian photographer who spent most of his professional life based in London.

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San Martino, Pietrasanta

The Collegiate Church of San Martino (Collegiata di San Martino; Duomo di Pietrasanta) is a collegiate church in Pietrasanta, in the region of Tuscany, Italy.

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Sant'Agostino, Pietrasanta

Sant'Agostino is a Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic former-church, located in the town of Pietrasanta in the province of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.

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Santino Spinelli

Santino Spinelli (born 21 July 1964) is an Italian Romani musician, composer and teacher.

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Silvia Gemignani

Silvia Gemignani (born September 2, 1972 in Pietrasanta) is an athlete from Italy, who competes in triathlon.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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Tuscany

Italian: toscano | citizenship_it.

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Utsunomiya

is the capital and largest city of Tochigi Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan.

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Versilia

Versilia is a part of Tuscany in the north-western province of Lucca and southern part of Massa-Carrara, and is named after the Versilia river.

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Viareggio

Viareggio is a city and comune in northern Tuscany, Italy, on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Pietrasanta and Viareggio are Cities and towns in Tuscany and Municipalities of the Province of Lucca.

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Villeparisis

Villeparisis is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Zduńska Wola

Zduńska Wola is a city in central Poland with 40,730 inhabitants (2021).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietrasanta

Also known as Marina di Pietrasanta, Pietrasanta, Italy, Valdicastello.

, Province of Lucca, Republic of Genoa, Republic of Lucca, Robert Kubica, Romanesque architecture, Romano Cagnoni, San Martino, Pietrasanta, Sant'Agostino, Pietrasanta, Santino Spinelli, Silvia Gemignani, Sister city, Tuscany, Utsunomiya, Versilia, Viareggio, Villeparisis, Zduńska Wola.

Pietrasanta, the Glossary

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Municipalities of the Province of Lucca

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