Battle of Custoza (1866)

The First Battle of Custoza was fought on July 24 and 25, 1848, during the First Italian War of Independence between the armies of the Austrian Empire, commanded by Field Marshal Radetzky, and the Kingdom of Sardinia, led by King Charles Albert of Piedmont-Sardinia.

Custoza (Italian: [kuˈstɔddza]; Venetian: Custoxa [kuˈstɔza]) is a northern Italian village and hamlet (frazione) of Sommacampagna, a municipality in the province of Verona, Veneto. As of 2011, its population was 812.

Rosegaferro is a town in the Veneto, in northeast Italy. It is a frazione of the comune of Villafranca di Verona, in the province of Verona. It has a population of around 1300.

Quaderni is an Italian village and hamlet (frazione) of the commune of Villafranca di Verona, in the Veneto. It has an estimated population of 1,618.

Sommacampagna is a town and comune in the province of Verona, Veneto, northern Italy. As of 2017, its population was of 14,746.

Banat Air Flight 166 was an Antonov Antonov An-24 (registration YR-AMR) chartered on 13 December 1995 from Romavia by Banat Air. It was due to fly from Verona, Italy, to Timișoara, Romania, when it crashed shortly after take-off, killing all eight crewmembers and 41 passengers. It later emerged that the aircraft was severely overloaded and its wings were contaminated with ice and snow. The accident was the 116th loss of an Antonov 24.

Castelnuovo del Garda (Italian: Stazione di Castelnuovo del Garda) is a railway station serving Castelnuovo del Garda, in the region of Lombardy, northern Italy. The station lies on the Milan–Venice railway and the train services are operated by Trenitalia and Trenord.

Sona is a comune with a population of 14,269 in the province of Verona in Italy with an area of 41.14 square kilometres (15.88 square miles).

Mozzecane is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 120 kilometres (75 mi) west of Venice and about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Verona. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 5,611 and an area of 24.7 square kilometres (9.5 sq mi).The municipality of Mozzecane contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Grezzano, Quistello, San Zeno, and Tormine. Mozzecane borders the following municipalities: Nogarole Rocca, Povegliano Veronese, Roverbella, Valeggio sul Mincio, and Villafranca di Verona.

Povegliano Veronese (Venetian: Pojan) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Verona in the Italian region Veneto, located about 110 kilometres (68 mi) west of Venice and about 5 kilometres (3 mi) from the Catullo Airport (Verona's Airport).

Verona Villafranca Airport (IATA: VRN, ICAO: LIPX), also known as Valerio Catullo Airport or Villafranca Airport, is located 10 km (6.2 mi) southwest of Verona, Italy. The airport is situated next to the junction of A4 Milan-Venice and A22 Modena-Brenner motorways. It serves a population of more than 4 million inhabitants in the provinces of Verona, Brescia, Mantua (Mantova) and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.

On August 2, 1919, a Caproni Ca.48 airliner crashed at Verona, Italy. All aboard died, with various sources placing the death toll at 14, 15, and 17. It was Italy‘s first commercial aviation disaster and the earliest heavier-than-air airliner disaster in history.