Caprera (other)
Caprera is an island in the Maddalena archipelago off the coast of Sardinia, Italy. Caprera may also refer to: * Italian cruiser ''Caprera'', 1894-1913 * 479 Caprera, a minor planet See also * Cabrera (other) * Centro Velico Caprera Centro Velico Caprera (CVC) is one of the oldest Italian sailing schools and also one of the largest of the Mediterranean Sea. Since its foundation in 1967 it has been attended by over 100,000 students. The legal head office is located at La Mad ...

Caprera
Caprera is an island in the Maddalena archipelago off the coast of Sardinia, Italy. In the area of La Maddalena island in the Strait of Bonifacio, it is a tourist destination and the place to which Giuseppe Garibaldi retired from 1854 until his death in 1882. Scarcely populated, the majority of the inhabitants live in Borgo di Stagnali. The island of Caprera is entirely included in the La Maddalena Archipelago National Park: a marine and land protected area of national and community interest. In particular, the marine zone in front of the area of ''Punta Rossa'', a southern extension of the island, is an area with maximum environmental protection, with ''Cala Andreani'' and ''Spiaggia del Relitto''. The eastern ridge of the island is a land zone of full protection, while the marine area in front of ''Punta Coticcio'', including ''Cala Coticcio'', is protected by the managing authority of the National Park. Features The island was probably given its name because of the numero ...
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Italian Cruiser Caprera
was a torpedo cruiser of the built for the Italian (Royal Navy) in the 1880s. She was built by the Cantiere navale fratelli Orlando shipyard; her keel was laid in July 1891, she was launched in May 1894, and was commissioned in December 1895. Her main armament were her five torpedo tubes, which were supported by a battery of eleven small-caliber guns. spent most of her career in the main Italian fleet, where she was primarily occupied with training exercises. She served in the Red Sea during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912, where she conducted shore bombardments and blockaded Ottoman ports in the area. did not remain in service long after the war, being sold for scrap in May 1913. Design The -class cruisers were derivatives of the earlier, experimental s, themselves based on the preceding cruiser . The class marked a temporary shift toward the ideas of the in Italian naval thinking. The doctrine emphasized the use of small, torpedo-armed craft to destroy expens ...
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479 Caprera
Caprera (minor planet designation: 479 Caprera) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. References External links Lightcurve plot of 479 Caprera Palmer Divide Observatory, B. D. Warner (2010) Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB) query form) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names Google books – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend – Minor Planet Center * * Background asteroids Caprera Caprera Caprera is an island in the Maddalena archipelago off the coast of Sardinia, Italy. In the area of La Maddalena island in the Strait of Bonifacio, it is a tourist destination and the place to which Giuseppe Garibaldi retired from 1854 until ... C-type asteroids (SMASS) 19011112 {{Beltasteroid-stub ...
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Cabrera (other)
Cabrera may refer to: Places Colombia * Cabrera, Cundinamarca * Cabrera, Santander Dominican Republic * Cabrera, María Trinidad Sánchez * Loma de Cabrera, Dajabón Mexico * Tlalixtac de Cabrera, Oaxaca Spain * Cabrera, Balearic Islands, an uninhabited islet * Cabrera d'Anoia, Catalonia * Cabrera de Mar, Catalonia * Castrillo de Cabrera, Castile and León * La Cabrera, Madrid Other uses * Cabrera (surname) * Cabrera (Santa Maria de Corcó) * Cabrera Nunatak * Cabrera River, a river of Colombia * ''Cabrera'', a synonym of the grass genus ''Axonopus'' * House of Cabrera, Counts of Urgell between 1236 and 1314 * José Cabrera Nuclear Power Station, in Almonacid de Zorita, near Madrid, Spain See also * Cabrero (other) * Caprera (other) Caprera is an island in the Maddalena archipelago off the coast of Sardinia, Italy. Caprera may also refer to: * Italian cruiser ''Caprera'', 1894-1913 * 479 Caprera, a minor planet See also * Cabrera (other) ...
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