"Venice Marco Polo Airport Venice Marco Polo Airport is the international airport of Venice, Italy. It is located on the mainland north of the city in Tessera, a ""Frazione"" of the Comune of Venice nearest to Mestre. Due to the importance of Venice as a leisure destination, it features flights to many European metropolitan areas as well as some partly seasonal long-haul routes to the United States, Canada and the Middle East. The airport handled 10.371.380 passengers in 2017, making it the fourth busiest airport in Italy. The airport is named after Marco Polo and serves as a base for"
"Pisa International Airport Pisa International Airport () , also named Galileo Galilei Airport is an airport located in Pisa, Italy. It is the main airport in Tuscany and the 10th in Italy in terms of passengers. It is named after Galileo Galilei, the famous scientist and native of Pisa. The airport was first developed for the military in the 1930s and 1940s. The airport was used by 5,233,118 passengers in 2017. It serves as a focus city of Ryanair. The airport had its own railway station with a service to and from Pisa Central railway station but this was closed"
"requested resources. The city of Venice, called on by a popular petition, has honored his memory by dedicating the stretch of the Lido promenade that borders the ""Venice-Lido Airport"". Umberto Klinger Umberto Klinger (Saluzzo, August 3, 1900 - Venice, January 26, 1971) was an aviator, Italian politician and entrepreneur. Volunteer in the Alpini assault troop Arditi detachments during the First World War, subsequently participated in the Fiume Exploit event. Appointed by Italo Balbo, the Italian Air Minister from 1929 to 1933, he chaired and organized the first Italian airline flag company. Senior pilot officer of the reserve in World War"
"recently upgraded the airport complex. The airport is also the manufacturing base for Piaggio Aerospace, an Italian aircraft design and production company. In 2017, with 1,249,374 passengers having passed through the airport, Genoa remained as the 23rd busiest Italian airport by passenger traffic. The Spanish low-cost airline Volotea operates one of its four bases in Italy in Genoa Airport. The airport is named after the notable Genoese navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus. Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport Genoa Airport () also named Christopher Columbus Airport (""Aeroporto Cristoforo Colombo"" in Italian) (), and commonly named ""Aeroporto di Genova-Sestri Ponente"" (Genoa-Sestri Ponente Airport,"
"Catania–Fontanarossa Airport Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (, English: Catania International Airport) also named as Vincenzo Bellini Airport, is an international airport southwest of Catania, the second largest city on the Italian island of Sicily. It is named after the opera composer Vincenzo Bellini who was born in Catania. It is the busiest airport in Sicily and the 6th busiest in Italy with 9.120.913 passengers in 2017. Major airlines such as Alitalia, Lufthansa and KLM offer services here and connect numerous European destinations such as Rome, Munich, Amsterdam and Berlin, while low-cost airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair offer flights to leisure destinations."
"Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (; 15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and he is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter, and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal. Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo"
"Gianni Widmer Gianni Widmer (April 25, 1892 in Trieste, then in Austro-Hungarian Empire – October 30, 1971 in Milan, Italy) (Slovenian: Ivan Vidmar, German: Johann Widmer) was an Italian civil and military aviator of Slovenian descent, a pioneer of airmail. He was interred at the cemetery of S. Anna in Trieste. On September 24, 1911 he flew from Venice to Trieste across the Adriatic Sea in 1h 15 min. There is a monument to Gianni Widmer in San Marino on the mountain of Monte Carlo (Fiorentino commune) to commemorate his landing there on April 16, 1913. It was authored by"
"The airport is named after Giovan Battista Pastine, an Italian airship pilot who served in World War I. Ciampino Airport was opened in 1916 and is one of the oldest airports still in operation. From here, on April 10th 1926, Umberto Nobile took off on the airship Norge, the first aircraft to reach the North Pole and the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. In October 1930, the first helicopter prototype designed by Corradino D'Ascanio was tested at Ciampino Airport, reaching a record altitude of 18 m, 8m45s duration and 1,078 m distance flown."
"is named after the explorer, who described it during his crossing of Pamir (ancient Mount Imeon) in 1271. In 1851, a three-masted Clipper built in Saint John, New Brunswick also took his name; the ""Marco Polo"" was the first ship to sail around the world in under six months. The airport in Venice is named Venice Marco Polo Airport. The frequent flyer programme of Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific is known as the ""Marco Polo Club"". The travels of Marco Polo are fictionalised in a number works, such as: Marco Polo Marco Polo (, , ; 1254January 8–9, 1324)"
"an area of and is named after polymath Leonardo da Vinci who, in 1480, designed a flying machine with wings and the first proto helicopter. The airport was officially opened on 15 January 1961, with two runways, replacing the smaller Rome Ciampino Airport, which remains in service for some low-cost airlines as well as domestic and charter operations. Despite being officially opened in 1961, Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport had actually been in use since 20 August 1960. This was to help relieve air traffic that was congesting Rome Ciampino Airport during the 1960 Summer Olympics. During the 1960s, home-carrier Alitalia"
"Tito Livio Burattini Tito Livio Burattini (, 8 March 1617 – 17 November 1681) was an inventor, architect, Egyptologist, scientist, instrument-maker, traveller, engineer, and nobleman. He was born in Agordo, Italy, and studied in Padua and Venice. In 1639, he explored the Great Pyramid of Giza with English mathematician John Greaves; both Burattini and Sir Isaac Newton used measurements made by Greaves in an attempt to accurately determine the circumference of the earth. For Germany in 1641, the court of King Władysław IV invited him to Poland. In Warsaw, Burattini built a model aircraft with four fixed glider wings in"
"his forebears' voyages. Zeno brothers The Zeno brothers, namely Nicolò (c. 1326–c. 1402) and Antonio Zeno (died c. 1403) were Italian noblemen from Venice living in the second half of the 14th century, who were famous during the Renaissance for a possible but controversial exploration of the north Atlantic and Arctic waters. They were brothers of the Venetian naval hero Carlo Zeno. The Zeno family was an established part of the aristocracy of Venice and held the franchise for transportation between Venice and the Holy Land during the Crusades. ""Zeno"" is the Italianization of the Venetian surname ""Zen"". Nicolò and"
"the airport was renamed ""Friuli – Venezia Giulia ""Pietro Savorgnan di Brazzà"" Airport"", in honor of the 19th-century humanitarian explorer of Africa known in English as Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, namegiver of Brazzaville. In recent years the airport has witnessed growth in low-cost and cargo traffic. The airport is owned and operated by Aeroporto Friuli Venezia Giulia S.p.A., a state corporation whose sole shareholder is the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. The airport is connected to the national railway and highway networks thanks to the Intermodal Transit Hub completed in March 2018, serving as an air-road-rail interchange. The Trieste Airport railway"
"Giovanni da Verrazzano Giovanni da Verrazzano (, sometimes also incorrectly spelled Verrazano; 1485–1528) was an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France. He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524, including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay. The consensus amongst scholars is that Giovanni da Verrazzano was born in Val di Greve, south of Florence, then the capital and main city of the Republic of Florence, the son of Piero Andrea di Bernardo da Verrazzano and Fiammetta Cappelli. It"
"Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI; the soldier, statesman, and artistic patron Lorenzo de' Medici, the son of Cosimo; the explorer John Cabot; the explorer Christopher Columbus; the explorer Amerigo Vespucci, after whom the Americas are named; the admiral and statesman Andrea Doria; Niccolò Machiavelli, author of ""The Prince"" and the outstanding political theorist of the Renaissance; the statesman and clergyman Cesare Borgia, the son of Rodrigo; the explorer Sebastian Cabot, the son of John; the historian Francesco Guicciardini; the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano; the philosopher Bernardino Telesio; the mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Giordano Bruno; the scholar Paolo Sarpi, so"
"is intituled to the Italian aviator Livio Bassi. The airport is a base for the ""37th Fighter Wing"" of the Italian Air Force with the Eurofighter Typhoon, and for the ""82th CSAR"" (Combat Search and Rescue) with the helicopters AgustaWestland AW139. The airfield is one of the four forward operating bases (FOBs) used by the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control stationed out of NATO Air Base Geilenkirchen in Geilenkirchen, Germany. The airport gained international attention during Operation Unified Protector in 2011 when NATO aircraft were based there during military intervention in the Libyan Civil War. This table does not"
"stone from Castello di Verrazzano, the explorer's ancestral home. Notes Giovanni da Verrazzano Giovanni da Verrazzano (, sometimes also incorrectly spelled Verrazano; 1485–1528) was an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France. He is renowned as the first European to explore the Atlantic coast of North America between Florida and New Brunswick in 1524, including New York Bay and Narragansett Bay. The consensus amongst scholars is that Giovanni da Verrazzano was born in Val di Greve, south of Florence, then the capital and main city of the Republic of Florence, the son of"
"Brescia Airport Brescia ""Gabriele D'Annunzio"" Airport (, ), also known as Montichiari Airport, is located in Montichiari, southeast of City of Brescia, Italy. Other nearby airports are Milan-Malpensa, Milan-Linate, Bergamo Orio al Serio and Verona-Villafranca. The airport is on the site of Italy's first air race meeting in September 1909, and the first outside France. The meeting was attended by the aviators Louis Blériot and Glenn Curtiss, among others. Gabriele D'Annunzio flew in one of Curtiss's planes and drew on the experience of the meeting in his novel ""Forse che sì forse che no"" (1910). Franz Kafka and Max Brod"
"Rome Urbe Airport Rome Urbe Airport (, ) is a small civilian airport in Rome, situated in the northern part of the city, between Via Salaria and the Tiber River, about 2.7 NM (5 km, 3.1 mi) inside the Greater Ring Road (Italian: Grande Raccordo Anulare or GRA), the circular motorway around the city. The airport was inaugurated in Benito Mussolini's presence in 1928, with the name ""Lictor Airport"" (the name was chosen by Mussolini himself). Until the World War II it was the main civilian airport in Italy, and the base for the Italian national airline Ala Littoria. Inside"
"Florence Airport Florence Airport, Peretola , and formally Amerigo Vespucci Airport, is the international airport of Florence, the capital of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is the second-busiest Tuscan airport in terms of passengers after Pisa International Airport. It serves as a focus city for Vueling. The first air field in Florence was created in the Campo di Marte area in 1910, when military authorities allowed a field to be used for ""experiments in air navigation"". Campo di Marte thus became Florence's first airport, and remained so throughout the 1920s. However, the field was soon surrounded by houses and"
"Giancarlo Ligabue Giancarlo Ligabue (30 October 1931 – 25 January 2015) was an Italian palaeontologist, scholar, politician and businessman. Born in Venice, Ligabue graduated in Economics at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and in Geology at la Sorbonne, and later he also received five honorary degrees from the universities of Bologna, Venice, Modena, Lima and Ashgabat. He participated or directed over 130 expeditions around the world, and he made several archaeological discoveries, such as the ""Ligabueino"", a noasaurid dinosaur named after him, and such as the unearthed deposits of hominid and dinosaurs fossils in the Ténéré desert. He collaborated"
"number of airplanes and passengers has steadily increased. In 1990, the airport was renamed after Florence native Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian merchant and cartographer. In 1992, the building now dedicated to arrivals, constructed by AdF, was inaugurated. Two years later, a departures building opened, and the City of Florence opened a car park at the entrance to the airport. In 1996, the runway was extended by 250 metres, and AdF funded further enlargement of the departure area. Today, the new area has 15 check-in desks and covers a total of 1,200 square metres, 770 of which are for public use."
"Bartolozzi, Marino/Mariano Bovi/Bova). He was portrayed by Laurence Olivier in the 1936 film ""Conquest of the Air"". Vincenzo Lunardi Vicenzo Lunardi (Jan 11, 1754, Lucca–Aug 1, 1806, Lisbon) was a pioneering Italian aeronaut, born in Lucca. His family were of minor Neapolitan nobility, and his father had married late in life. Vicenzo was one of three children. He travelled in France in his early years before being called home, where he was put into the diplomatic service. Vincenzo Lunardi had come to England as Secretary to Prince Caramanico, the Neapolitan Ambassador. There was a flying craze in France and Scotland"
"one to: Some airlines market Treviso Airport in Treviso, from Venice, as a Venice gateway. Some simply advertise flights to ""Venice"", while naming the actual airport only in small print. There are public buses from this airport to Venice. Venezia-Lido ""Giovanni Nicelli"", a public airport suitable for smaller aircraft, is at the NE end of Lido di Venezia. It has a 994-metre grass runway. The most Venetian sport is probably the """"Voga alla Veneta"""", also commonly called ""Voga Veneta"". The Venetian Rowing is a technique invented in the Venetian Lagoon which has the particularity to see the rower(s), one or"
"clear, picturesque, and beyond suspicion."" Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri (1651–1725) was a seventeenth-century Italian adventurer and traveler. He was among the first Europeans to tour the world by securing passage on ships involved in the carrying trade; his travels, undertaken for pleasure rather than profit, may have inspired ""Around the World in Eighty Days."" Some suspected him of spying for the Vatican on his journey. Gemelli Careri was born in Taurianova, 1651, and died in Naples, 1725. He obtained a doctorate in law at the College of Jesuits in Naples. After completing his studies he briefly"
"his legs, but his plans were thwarted by his debtors and he was suspected by the Austrians of having sympathy for the ideals of the Enlightenment and the United States. He died on May 11, 1823, now totally disabled and in dire circumstances, as an expatriate in Nice (where he had moved in 1817). Paolo Andreani Paolo Andreani (27 May 1763 – 11 May 1823) was an Italian who made the first balloon flight over Italian soil. He also made an exploration around the Great Lakes in North America. Andreani was born in Milan on 27 May 1763. His father"
"direct from the airport. Other airports in Sicily: Catania–Fontanarossa Airport Catania–Fontanarossa Airport (, English: Catania International Airport) also named as Vincenzo Bellini Airport, is an international airport southwest of Catania, the second largest city on the Italian island of Sicily. It is named after the opera composer Vincenzo Bellini who was born in Catania. It is the busiest airport in Sicily and the 6th busiest in Italy with 9.120.913 passengers in 2017. Major airlines such as Alitalia, Lufthansa and KLM offer services here and connect numerous European destinations such as Rome, Munich, Amsterdam and Berlin, while low-cost airlines such as"
"Zeno brothers The Zeno brothers, namely Nicolò (c. 1326–c. 1402) and Antonio Zeno (died c. 1403) were Italian noblemen from Venice living in the second half of the 14th century, who were famous during the Renaissance for a possible but controversial exploration of the north Atlantic and Arctic waters. They were brothers of the Venetian naval hero Carlo Zeno. The Zeno family was an established part of the aristocracy of Venice and held the franchise for transportation between Venice and the Holy Land during the Crusades. ""Zeno"" is the Italianization of the Venetian surname ""Zen"". Nicolò and Antonio are notable"
"for the trip across the Atlantic Ocean. After World War II, the U.S. government gave airport control to the City of Venice, naming the city the airport sponsor through various Federal grant assurances. After the September 11 attacks of 2001, local, state and national authorities discovered that three of the 9/11 terrorists, Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah, had all enrolled at the now defunct Huffman Aviation flight training school at VNC for general aviation flight training. Venice Municipal Airport covers an area of which contains two paved runways: 5/23 (asphalt) and 13/31 (Concrete), both measuring 5,000 x 150"
"In addition, the name of the American continents derives from the geographer Amerigo Vespucci's first name. Also noted, is explorer Marco Polo who travelled extensively throughout the eastern world recording his travels. Due to comparatively late national unification, and the historical autonomy of the regions that comprise the Italian peninsula, many traditions and customs of the Italians can be identified by their regions of origin. Despite the political and social isolation of these regions, Italy's contributions to the cultural and historical heritage of the Western world remain immense. Famous elements of Italian culture are its opera and music, its iconic"
"John Cabot John Cabot (; c. 1450 – c. 1500) was an Italian navigator and explorer, born in the Kingdom of Naples. His 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England was the first European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century. To mark the celebration of the 500th anniversary of Cabot's expedition, both the Canadian and British governments elected Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland, as representing Cabot's first landing site. However, alternative locations have also been proposed. Cabot is known today as ""Giovanni Caboto"" in"
"airport started to be used for gliding. An enterprise based at first at Malpensa, called Aeronautica Aermacchi, moved in Venegono Inferiore. This company, originally, was specialized in ""Vampire Aircraft"" reviews and tests on the MB 326. In 1981 it was reorganized as a holding company, called ""Aermacchi SpA"" Later, in 1993, it moved the whole production of its aircraft to Venegono. In 2003 it was purchased by ""Finmeccanica"", changing its name to Alenia Aermacchi. The airport was renamed ""Aeroporto "" in homage to the Italian pilot. Arturo Ferrarin was a fighter pilot during the World War I and enrolled in"
"honor include a Boeing 767 in the Alitalia fleet, the Istituto Aeronautico Arturo Ferrarin in Gallarate, Piazza Arturo Ferrarin in Thiene, and streets in Vicenza, Verona, and Fiumicino Airport. Ferrarin's exploits inspired the character ""Ferrarin"" in the Japanese animated film ""Porco Rosso"" directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Arturo Ferrarin Arturo Ferrarin (13 February 1895 – 18 July 1941) was an Italian pioneer aviator. His exploits included winning the ""Raid Roma-Tokyo"" air race in 1920 and a non-stop flight from Italy to Brazil in 1928 with fellow aviator Carlo Del Prete. The latter flight set the world distance record for a non-stop"