The Torino Grand Prix was the first qualifying Gliding Grand Prix for the FAI World Grand Prix 2008. It was a demonstration event for the World Air Games Turin 2009.
Famous quotes containing the words italian, grand and/or gliding:
“If the study of his images
Is the study of man, this image of Saturday,
This Italian symbol, this Southern landscape, is like
A waking, as in images we awake,
Within the very object that we seek,
Participants of its being.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I stand on a bridge of one span
and see this calm act, this gathering up
of life, of spring water
and the Muse gliding ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)