{"id":2772,"date":"2023-05-25T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T10:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolife.info\/?p=2772\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:00:56","slug":"straverona-junior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/straverona-junior\/","title":{"rendered":"Straverona Junior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again this year, <em>Jolife by Villafrut<\/em> is proud to support the sporting event <em>Straverona<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But how did this highly anticipated event, so loved by the citizens of Verona and beyond, come to be?<\/p>\n<p>It all began in <strong>1983<\/strong>, when the first edition of Straverona was held \u2014 a non-competitive sporting event that has taken place annually in Verona ever since, usually on the third Sunday of May. That year, the <em>Esseciemme Mondadori Walkers Group<\/em> accepted a request from the then Sports Councillor <em>Graziano Rugiadi<\/em> to organize a city run in honor of Verona\u2019s patron saint, <em>San Zeno<\/em>. As a result, they moved the 11th edition of their existing event <em>\u201cSei Ville\u201d<\/em> (originally scheduled for April 24) to Verona and renamed it the <strong>1st Straverona<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>With the sponsorship of the <em>Municipality of Verona<\/em> and the <em>Sports Department<\/em>, and with the collaboration of the <em>San Zeno Festival Committee<\/em> and the sports groups <em>Mombocar<\/em>, <em>Paliaga<\/em>, and <em>Camera<\/em>, a city run was organized featuring two routes of 10 and 20 km. Nearly <strong>10,000 runners<\/strong> took part \u2014 a surprising number for the time!<br \/>\nThe event was officially named: <em>\u201cLA SEI VILLE VA A SAN ZENO \u2013 1\u00aa STRAVERONA.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\nIn 1983 and 1984, the city run took place in <em>Piazza San Zeno<\/em>. In the years that followed, due to the growing number of participants, it moved to the larger <em>Piazza Bra<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1984, the <em>Sei Ville<\/em> returned to its original home at the Sporting Club Mondadori, and the <em>Straverona Committee<\/em> was formed to organize the 2nd edition of Straverona. The first president was <em>Cesare de Monte<\/em>, with members including <em>Vincenzo Presutti<\/em> (Unione Marciatori Veronesi), <em>Gianluigi Pasetto<\/em> (FIASP), <em>Giorgio Dalla Via<\/em>, and <em>Luciano Fantoni<\/em> (San Zeno Festival Committee).<br \/>\nIn 1997, the <em>Straverona Association<\/em> was officially founded and later became a recognized amateur sports association (<em>A.S.D.<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again this year, Jolife by Villafrut is proud to support the sporting event Straverona. But how did this highly anticipated event, so loved by the citizens of Verona and beyond, come to be? It all began in 1983, when the first edition of Straverona was held \u2014 a non-competitive sporting event that has taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,163],"tags":[165,167,568,625,488],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eventi-en","category-sport-en","tag-jolife-2-en","tag-straverona-en","tag-straveronajunior","tag-veronaevents","tag-villafrut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2773,"href":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions\/2773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jolife.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}