Arezzo

Stadio Città di Arezzo is a multi-purpose stadium, located in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home of... the A.S.D. Atletico Arezzo football club. The stadium was built in 1923 and until 2006 was known as the Stadio Comunale. It has a grass playing surface and a 13,128-seating capacity.
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Shiva Keshavan is the first Indian representative to compete in luge at the Winter Olympic Games. He set a new Asian speed record at 134.3 kmph... after beating previous record of 131.9 kmph and won gold medal in Asia Cup 2011 at Nagano in Japan. Keshavan is the son of an Indian father from the state of Kerala and an Italian mother. He was born and brought up in the Himalayas and attended The Lawrence School Sanawar. He is married to Namita Agarwal, a former classmate at Sanawar, who is also his sports manager. He studied humanities and political science from 'Cesare Alfieri' University of Florence and received a Master's degree in International relations from the University of Florence. He picked up luge when he was selected at a Training Camp in Himachal, at the age of 15. He resides and trains in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, on the foothills of the Himalayas and the home of winter sports in the country. He was , "offered to represent Italy" in 2002, but refused because "I am an Indian and want to contribute to the country that I was born in".
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Antonio Cesti , known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, he was also a singer , and organist. He was "the most celebrated... Italian musician of his generation". He was born at Arezzo, and studied with various local musicians. In 1637 he joined the Order of Friars Minor, or Franciscans, a Roman Catholic religious group founded by Francis of Assisi. While he was in Volterra he turned more toward secular music, perhaps due to the patronage and influence of the powerful Medici family. Here he also came in contact with Salvator Rosa, who wrote libretti for a number of Cesti's cantatas. By 1650 Cesti's calling as a Franciscan friar and his success as a singer and composer for operas was coming into conflict, and he was officially reprimanded. In 1652 he became a member of the court at Innsbruck of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria. After holding a post somewhere in Florence as maestro di cappella, he entered the papal chapel in 1660. In 1666 he became Vice-Kapellmeister at Vienna, and died at Venice in 1669. Cesti is known principally as a composer of operas.
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