1. This is the postcode category of Cremona, Italy.

2. Now boasting over 140 specialised workshops, Cremona has once again become the world capital of violin making.

3. In Cremona, home of the Stradivarius violin, artisans from around the globe learn to build instruments the way the maestro did: by hand, one at a time.

4. Since then, Cremona violin making has gone from strength to strength, new master craftsmen have been schooled and fresh workshops established.

5. To help create the right atmosphere, Cremona has been adding to its collection of superb old-master violins on view in the town hall, including famous Strads and Amatis.

6. Some take the tradition home: two of America's best-known violin-makers, Joseph Curtin and Gregg Alf, trained in Cremona.

7. Prometea, the world's first cloned horse, runs in the grounds of the Laboratory of Reproductive Technology in Cremona, northern Italy. Prometea was born in May 2003.

8. Monteverdi's madrigal writing course could be divided into three stages: Cremona Period,[Sentence dictionary] Mantua Period and Venetian Period.

9. MILAN - The first match of Milan has been set: at Cremona .

10. The oldest surviving violin, dated inside, is the "Charles IX" by Andrea Amati, made in Cremona in 1564.

11. Francesco Toto, the consortium's vice-president, thinks that the luthiers benefit from the craft's long tradition in Cremona. But that has been far from continuous.

12. Perhaps against the bianconeri I was a bit tired because I hadn't played for 90 minutes since the match at Cremona.

13. But his classical training at the violin-making school of Cremona has held him back for a long time.

14. A craftsman applies varnish to a violin in his studio in Cremona, northern Italy in this July 8, 2006 file photo.