now houses the civic Musical Institute as a centre for cultural activities. Main events In 2019, the TEDx Conference event was introduced for the first time, a significant step forward for the community. Twin towns Landshut, Germany, since 1981 Kaposvár, Hungary, since 1990 Pétange, Luxembourg, since 1992 Notable people Josephine Bakhita, F.D.C.C. (ca. 1869 – 8 February 1947), was a Sudanese-Italian Canossian religious sister who lived in Italy for 45 years, after having been a slave in Sudan. In 2000 she was declared a saint by the Catholic Church. Olinto de Pretto, an industrialist who published a mass-energy equivalence equation in 1903, two years before Einstein Nicola Rigoni, Italian footballer Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer Gallery References External links Schio official website http://tedxschio.com/ Cities and towns in Veneto Castles in Italy