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Former seat of the National Bank in Florence, inaugurated in 1869 and later converted into a branch of the Bank of Italy, with Giotto's Campanile in the background. By royal decree of 14 December 1849 ratified by law of 9 July 1850, the struggling Bank of Turin was merged into the Bank of Genoa, which on the occasion was renamed the National Bank of the Sardinian States.
De Sole has been chairman of Tom Ford International since the company was founded in 2005. [3] In March 2015, De Sole became chairman of the international auction house Sotheby's, working alongside president and CEO, Tad Smith, whose appointment was announced on the same day. [6] De Sole stepped down November 2019 following the sale of the ...
Distribution of Romance languages in Europe. Venetian is number 15. Venetian, [ 7][ 8] wider Venetian or Venetan[ 9][ 10] ( łengua vèneta [ˈ (l)eŋɡwa ˈvɛneta] or vèneto [ˈvɛneto]) is a Romance language spoken natively in the northeast of Italy, [ 11] mostly in Veneto, where most of the five million inhabitants can understand it.
A Virginia appellate court ruled Tuesday that a U.S. Marine should never have been granted an adoption of an Afghan war orphan and voided the custody order he’s relied on to raise the girl for ...
The Parthenon ( / ˈpɑːrθəˌnɒn, - nən /; Ancient Greek: Παρθενών, romanized : Parthenōn [par.tʰe.nɔ̌ːn]; Greek: Παρθενώνας, romanized : Parthenónas [parθeˈnonas]) is a former temple [ 6][ 7] on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena.
Solé descended from a family of musical talent, song writers, singers and musicians. She began rapping at the age of 6 and formed a group called Divine with her best friend Shurhea Mitchell in 1986. They would perform at local talent shows and in 1990 they won a trip to the BRE (Black Radio Exclusive) in New Orleans, Louisiana, to perform at a ...
Coordinates: 43°49′54.01″N 11°09′25.00″E. The church photographed by Paolo Monti in 1977. The Church of San Giovanni Battista or Chiesa dell'Autostrada del Sole is a church in Campi Bisenzio, near Florence, Italy, within a large motorway rest area shared between two autostrada roads. It can also be reached on foot from a local road ...
Terra del Sole. Terra del Sole is a town constructed in 1564 for Cosimo I de’ Medici by Baldassarre Lanci of Urbino, in what is now the Province of Forlì-Cesena, northern Italy. It was one of the first fortified cities to be constructed entirely from new on a planned grid system. Meaning Town of the Sun it was conceived to be the ideal town ...