Totallympics Annual International Song Contest 2024

[Henry_Leon 1,394]

Giro d’Italia  Tour of Italy

(Not the cycling race)

 

 In this space we present some cities inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List

 

 

PISA

 

Pisa is a city and comune in Tuscany, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea.

Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the city contains more than twenty other historic churches, several medieval palaces, and bridges across the Arno. Much of the city's architecture was financed from its history as one of the Italian maritime republics.

The city is also home to the University of Pisa, which has a history going back to the 12th century, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, founded by Napoleon in 1810, and hosts the largest headquarters of the National Research Council (CNR).

 

The Piazza del Duomo, also known as the square of miracles, is the most important artistic and tourist center of Pisa.

Listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1987, you can admire some masterpieces of European Romanesque architecture, that is, the monuments that form the center of the city's religious life: the cathedral, the baptistery, the cemetery and the bell tower.

 

 

The Cathedral: the heart of the complex is the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, the medieval cathedral. It is a five-aisled church with a three-aisled transept. The building, like the bell tower, has sunk perceptibly into the ground, and some damage to the construction is clearly visible. The Pisan Romanesque style was created starting from this church and then exported to the rest of Tuscany, but also to Corsica and Sardinia, once under the control of the Republic of Pisa.

The bell tower of Santa Maria: known as "The Leaning Tower" or "The Tower of Pisa", is the bell tower of the Duomo. Below it the ground gave way slightly, causing it to tilt a few degrees. The inclination continued for many years, until it stopped after the restoration work concluded in the early 21st century. Due to construction difficulties, its construction lasted over two centuries (in three different phases of work) starting from the end of the 12th century.

The Baptistery: dedicated to St. John the Baptist, stands in front of the west façade of the Cathedral. The building was begun in the mid-12th century, the interior, surprisingly simple and devoid of decoration, also has exceptional acoustics. It is the largest baptistery in Italy: its circumference measures 107.25 m.

The Campo Santo: the monumental Camposanto is located at the northern edge of the square. It is a cemetery structured in the form of a cloister, with earthly tombs. The earth inside the courtyard is actually a relic, being earth coming from Mount Golgotha in the Holy Land, transported with several ships by the Pisans after the Fourth Crusade, hence the name "campo" (plot of land) "holy".

 

 

Edited March 15 by Henry_Leon

[Henry_Leon 1,394]

Italian Festival

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In this space we present some dialectical and traditional songs

 

SICILIA (SICILY)

 

Ciuri, Ciuri (Flowers, flowers) and Vitti 'na crozza (I saw a skull) are two of the most famous Sicilian songs.

The author of the lyrics is unknown, while the music of Ciuri ciuri was written by Francesco Paolo Frontini in 1883,

while the music of Vitti 'na crozza by Franco Li Causi in the late 1950s.

Both songs are reinterpreted by the Sicilian singer Roy Paci with the group Aretuska

 

 

 

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Franco Battiato - Veni l'autunnu (Come Autumn)

(Music and Lyric Franco Battiato- 1988)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Henry_Leon 1,394]

Italian Festival

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In this space we present some dialectical and traditional songs

 

SARDEGNA (Sardinia)

 

No potho reposare

 

“A diosa” is the original title of the most famous Sardinian song, a 1915 poem by the poet Salvatore “Badore” Sini, and subsequently set to music by Giuseppe Rachel.

Version performed by two famous Sardinian singers:  Maria Carta (1934-1994) & Andrea Parodi (1977 -2006)

 

 

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Zirichiltaggia (Baddu tundu) (Lizardman, round dance)

Is a song in Gallurese (Sardinian) written by the Genoese singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André and Massimo Bubola (1978).

De André moved to Sardinia (Tempio Pausania) in the mid-seventies.

 

 

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Le Balentes - Cixiri (Chickpeas) 2001

Music and Lyric:  Rossella Faa & Augusto Pirodda

 

[Henry_Leon 1,394]

TEAM CHALLENGE

 

Will be an automatic draw will decide the composition of the 7 teams.

For the draw the nations will be divided in 5 pots, based the all time ranking medals and participations.

 

 

> pot 1	>> pot 2	>>> pot3	>>>> pot4	>>>>> pot 5
France	Brazil	China	Argentina	Albania
Germany	Czech Republic	Hungary	Bulgaria	Chile
Great Britain	Denmark	Malta	Croatia	Guatemala
Ireland	Lituania	Mexico	Greece	Indonesia
Italy	Serbia	New Zealand	India	Kazakhstan
Netherlands	Spain	Romania	Poland	Moldova
Sweden	United States	Slovakia	Slovenia	Portugal

 

 

the draw:

 

 

[Henry_Leon 1,394]

TEAM CHALLENGE

 

The teams will have the name of the mascots used in international events organized in Italy.

 

[hckošice 14,820]

Does not smell like a fixed draw for me

 

[mrv86 3,138]

We almost a team Latin America 

[Henry_Leon 1,394]

TEAM CHALLENGE

 

Spoiler

Team Challenge competition rule: in each session of the contest (part 1,2,3,4) the "team" adds the scores obtained by the 4 best nations in the session itself.

 

 

	Team VOLLY					Rank #
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Volly was the mascotte of Men's Volleyball World Championship 2010

A blue and white swallow with the number 10, a volleyball in his hand and red knee pads.

Volly also returned for the men's world championship co-hosted by Italy/Bulgary 2018

 

 

 

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Corty, the red squirrel, was the mascot of the Cortina 2021 Alpine Skiing World Championships

Corty is a character who draws inspiration from the tradition and history of Cortina d'Ampezzo, the small rodent is in fact one of the animals that inhabit the woods of the Dolomites.

 

 

	Team PINOCCHIO					Rank #
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Italia '80 was the first UEFA (European) tournament to present a mascot, while they were already used for the World Cup and Olympics.

The puppet created by Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio, was chosen and was represented with a balloon under his arm, a tricolor nose and a sailor's cap on his head with the writing Europa 80.

The mascot was not initially given an official name because it was believed that the rights to Pinocchio belonged to Disney. When the Collodi Foundation confirmed that the copyright on the book had expired 50 years ago, the organizing committee renamed the official mascot.

 

 

 

	Team  DIVA09					Rank #
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Was the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome.

Frogs symbolize vitality and energy, and also have the ability to adapt to different environments, especially aquatic ones.

It is always on the move, just like any athlete.

 

 

	Team  BUMSI					Rank #
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Bumsi was the mascotte of Biathlon World Championships 2020  Rasen-Antholz (Rasun-Anterselva).

"Bum" has its own meaning, it reproduces with a language the two actions of the biathlon: “bum” (shooting shots); “si” is the phonetic of sci (Italian for SKI) symbolizing cross-country skis.

 

	Team  NEVE & GLIZ					Rank #
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The two mascotte of Winter Olympic 2016

They both represent the characteristics of the Winter Games, including "Snow and Ice". Neve ("Snow" in Italian) is a humanized female snowball that wears red and represents "softness, friendship and elegance." Gliz (a shortened form of Ghiaccio, "Ice" in Italian) is a humanized male ice cube who wears blue and represents "enthusiasm and joy."

 

 

	Team CIAO					Rank #
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Ciao is the mascot adopted for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. It represents the stylized figure of a footballer, made up of cubes colored with the national colours, who had a football instead of a head.

The mascot immediately divided the public and critics, but unexpectedly it had a great success, it was reproduced in different forms, many gadgets, posters and puppets representing it, a resounding commercial success.

[OlympicIRL 5,532]

I will be flying home from a holiday on the day of the Grand Final so I may miss most of it and also my voting time. But I will be travelling home from the airport by bus (4 hours) so it will be a good way to pass the time by catching up on all the fun  

[konig 1,503]

2 hours ago, mrv86 said:

We almost a team Latin America 

With the british in Malvinas/Falklands, it can be a Latin American team