The 2006 Winter Olympics torch reaches Rome
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With the arrival of the torch to Rome, it begins the ritual of the 2006 Winter Olympics of Turin. The torch will travel across Italy transported by more than 10'000 carriers and it will arrive in Turin on February 9, 2006, where the Winter Olympics will be inaugurated, after 11'000 km (6,835 miles) of travel. On November 27 the flame was burned on the altar of Hestia in Olympia, in Greece, and delivered to the first torch carrier, pole vaulter Kostas Fidippidis. The first Italian to carry the olympic flame is the marathoner Stefano Baldini, wi
With the arrival of the torch to Rome, it begins the ritual of the 2006 Winter Olympics of Turin. The torch will travel across Italy transported by more than 10'000 carriers and it will arrive in Turin on February 9, 2006, where the Winter Olympics will be inaugurated, after 11'000 km (6,835 miles) of travel.
On November 27 the flame was burned on the altar of Hestia in Olympia, in Greece, and delivered to the first torch carrier, pole vaulter Kostas Fidippidis. The first Italian to carry the olympic flame is the marathoner Stefano Baldini, winner of gold medal at the Olympics in Athens. He received the torch from the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
The torch
The olympic torch has a length of 77 cm (30 inches), and is 10,5 cm (4.13 inches) at its widest, with a weight of 1.9 kg (4.2 pounds). It was designed by Pininfarina and has a shape that remembers at the same time one ski and the Mole Antonelliana.
Its external shell is made of an aluminum alloy, while the functional inner part is in steel, copper and high-tech polymer. The outside has a paint job resistant to high temperatures.
Each torch is designed to burn for 15 minutes, at altitudes from sea level to 5'000 m (16,400 feet), in temperatures between -20°C and 25°C (-4 to 77 Fahrenheit).
The flame is fed from a mixture of 40% propylene and 60% butane, which is contained in an aluminum cylinder in the torch.
The route
The route of the torch since the December 8, 2005 until the February 9, 2006:
December 8 Rome
December 10 Rieti
December 11 Perugia
December 12 Siena
December 13 Livorno
December 14 Florence
December 15 Lucca
December 16 Pisa
December 17 La Spezia
December 18 Genoa
December 19 Nuoro
December 20 Cagliari
December 21 Ragusa
December 22 Agrigento
December 23 Palermo
December 26 Catania
December 27 Reggio Calabria
December 28 Catanzaro
December 29 Cosenza
December 30 Potenza
December 31 Naples
January 1 Frosinone
January 2 Benevento
January 3 Taranto
January 4 Lecce
January 5 Bari
January 6 Foggia
January 7 Campobasso
January 8 Pescara
January 9 L'Aquila
January 10 Ancona
January 11 Arezzo
January 12 Rimini
January 13 Bologna
January 14 Parma
January 15 Mantua
January 16 Verona
January 17 Venice
January 18 Trieste
January 19 Udine
January 20 Tarvisio
January 21 Belluno
January 22 Treviso
January 23 Trento
January 24 Bozen-Bolzano
January 25 Ortisei
January 26 Cortina d'Ampezzo
January 27 Meran-Merano
January 28 Lecco
January 29 Milan
January 30 Varese
January 31 Pavia
February 1 Savona
February 2 Cuneo
February 3 Pinerolo
February 4 Sestriere
February 5 Bardonecchia
February 6 Albertville
February 7 Aosta
February 8 Venaria Reale
February 9 Turin
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