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Porcellino

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Il Porcellino (Italian "piglet") is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar. [1]

59 relations: Aix-en-Provence, Baroque, Boboli Gardens, Butchart Gardens, Calydonian Boar, Castle Howard, Chatsworth House, Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Country Club Plaza, Dallas, Delaware Museum of Natural History, Derby Arboretum, Enghien, Englewood, Colorado, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry, Florence, German Hunting and Fishing Museum, Giancarlo Giannini, Great Escape (amusement park), Greek mythology, Greenville, South Carolina, Grosseto, Hannibal (film), Hans Christian Andersen, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Hellenistic period, Holstebro, House of Medici, Houston, Kansas City, Missouri, Kimmerghame House, Leweston School, Louvre, Lyndon, Vermont, Madrid, Munich, Museum of Outdoor Arts, Oslo, Palazzo Mozzi, Patina, Pietro Tacca, Queensbury, New York, Rice Village, Rispescia, Shreveport, Louisiana, Sonoma, California, St Mary's College, Durham, Stockholm, ..., Sydney Hospital, Tobias Smollett, Tuscany, Uffizi, University of Arkansas, University of Waterloo, Wallace, North Carolina, Wild boar, Wilmington, Delaware. Expand index (9 more) »

Aix-en-Provence

Aix-en-Provence (Provençal Occitan: Ais de Provença in classical norm, or Ais de Prouvènço in Mistralian norm,, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix (medieval Occitan Aics), is a city-commune in the south of France, about north of Marseille.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.

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Boboli Gardens

The Boboli Gardens (Giardino di Boboli) is a park in Florence, Italy, that is home to a collection of sculptures dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries, with some Roman antiquities.

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Butchart Gardens

The Butchart Gardens is a group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island.

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Calydonian Boar

The Calydonian or Aetolian Boar (ὁ Καλυδώνιος κάπροςPseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke, 2.) is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age.

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Castle Howard

Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, north of York.

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Chatsworth House

Chatsworth House is a stately home in Derbyshire, England, in the Derbyshire Dales north-east of Bakewell and west of Chesterfield.

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Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Cosimo II de' Medici (12 May 1590 – 28 February 1621) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 until his death.

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Country Club Plaza

The Country Club Plaza (often called The Plaza) is a privately owned American shopping center in the Country Club District of Kansas City, Missouri.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Delaware Museum of Natural History

The Delaware Museum of Natural History was founded in 1957 by John Eleuthere du Pont near Greenville, Delaware; it opened in 1972 on a site near Winterthur, Delaware.

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Derby Arboretum

Derby Arboretum is a public park and arboretum in the city of Derby, England, located about south of the city centre in the Rose Hill area.

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Enghien

Enghien (Edingen, Inguî, Enge) is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut.

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Englewood, Colorado

The City of Englewood is a Home Rule Municipality located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, United States.

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Fayetteville, Arkansas

Fayetteville is the third-largest city in Arkansas and county seat of Washington County.

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Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry

The Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry (Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli also known as FAFM) is one of the last remaining Florentine foundries, producing works in bronze utilizing the Renaissance technique of lost-wax.

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Florence

Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.

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German Hunting and Fishing Museum

The German Hunting and Fishing Museum (Deutsches Jagd- und Fischereimuseum) is a museum exhibiting objects connected with the history of hunting and fishing in Germany or other territories which nowadays belong to it.

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Giancarlo Giannini

Giancarlo Giannini (born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor and voice-over artist.

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Great Escape (amusement park)

Great Escape (sometimes referred to as Six Flags Great Escape) is an amusement and water park owned and operated by Six Flags Entertainment Corp. It is located approximately north of Albany, in Queensbury, New York, but is advertised as being in Lake George, New York, a popular tourist and vacation spot nearby.

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Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.

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Greenville, South Carolina

Greenville (locally) is the largest city in and the seat of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States.

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Grosseto

Grosseto is a city and comune in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of the Province of Grosseto.

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Hannibal (film)

Hannibal is a 2001 American psychological horror film directed by Ridley Scott, adapted from the novel of the same name by Thomas Harris.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 is a 2011 fantasy film directed by David Yates and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

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Hellenistic period

The Hellenistic period covers the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the subsequent conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year.

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Holstebro

Holstebro is the main town in Holstebro Municipality, Denmark.

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House of Medici

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

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Kimmerghame House

Kimmerghame House is a 19th-century mansion in the Scottish Borders, located south-east of Duns by the Blackadder Water.

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Leweston School

Leweston School is an independent day and boarding school near Sherborne in Dorset, UK.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France.

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Lyndon, Vermont

Lyndon is a town in Caledonia County, Vermont, United States.

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Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in both the Community of Madrid and Spain as a whole.

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Munich

Munich (München; Minga) is the capital and the most populated city in the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.

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Museum of Outdoor Arts

Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA) is a non-profit museum and gallery based in Englewood, Colorado.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Palazzo Mozzi

Palazzo Mozzi or Palazzo de' Mozzi is an early Renaissance palace, located at the end of the Piazza de' Mozzi that emerges from Ponte alle Grazie and leads straight to the palace where via San Niccolò becomes via de' Bardi in the Quartiere of Santo Spirito (San Niccolò) in the Oltrarno section of Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.

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Patina

Patina is a thin layer that variously forms on the surface of copper, bronze and similar metals (tarnish produced by oxidation or other chemical processes), or certain stones, and wooden furniture (sheen produced by age, wear, and polishing), or any similar acquired change of a surface through age and exposure.

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Pietro Tacca

Pietro Tacca (16 September 1577 – 26 October 1640) was an Italian sculptor, who was the chief pupil and follower of Giambologna.

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Queensbury, New York

Queensbury is a town in Warren County, New York, United States.

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Rice Village

Rice Village is a shopping district in Houston, Texas, United States.

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Rispescia

Rispescia, or Santa Maria di Rispescia, is a small town in southern Tuscany, a frazione of the comune of Grosseto, situated about 10 km south-east of the capital, right outside the Natural Park of Maremma, near the frazione of Alberese.

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Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is the third-largest city in the state of Louisiana and the 122nd-largest city in the United States.

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Sonoma, California

Sonoma is a city in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, United States, surrounding its historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Mexican colonial past.

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St Mary's College, Durham

St Mary's College is a college of Durham University in England.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Sydney Hospital

Sydney Hospital is a major hospital in Australia, located on Macquarie Street in the Sydney central business district.

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Tobias Smollett

Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author.

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Tuscany

Tuscany (Toscana) is a region in central Italy with an area of about and a population of about 3.8 million inhabitants (2013).

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Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery (italic) is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy.

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University of Arkansas

The University of Arkansas (U of A, UARK, or UA) is a public land-grant, doctoral research university located in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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University of Waterloo

The University of Waterloo (commonly referred to as Waterloo, UW, or UWaterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario.

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Wallace, North Carolina

Wallace is a town in Duplin and Pender counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Wild boar

The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine,Heptner, V. G.; Nasimovich, A. A.; Bannikov, A. G.; Hoffman, R. S. (1988), Volume I, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation, pp.

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Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink, Pakehakink) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware.

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References

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

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