Breda Castle Breda Castle Breda Castle is a castle in the city of Breda, in the Netherlands. In the 12th century, a fortress was located at Breda. The city of Breda came into existence near the fortress. In 1353, the Duke of Brabant sold Breda to Jan II of Polanen (Baron of Breda). He reinforced the castle with four towers and a channel. His daughter Johanna of Polanen married in 1403 the German count Engelbert I of Nassau. Their son Jan IV of Nassau enlarged the castle. Henry III of Nassau-Breda changed the castle into a Renaissance palace in 1536. He died
Breda-Zappata BZ.308 a field in Somalia before being broken up. It was also the first Italian transatlantic aircraft, and the first aircraft to fly into the new Malpensa airport in 1948. Breda-Zappata BZ.308 The Breda-Zappata B.Z.308 was an Italian four-engined airliner produced by Breda. The B.Z.308 was a four-engined civil transport developed in the 1940s for operation over both European and transatlantic routes. A large low-wing monoplane of all-metal construction, it was powered by four Bristol Centaurus radial engines driving five-bladed propellers. It had a large tailplane with endplate fins and rudders, and had retractable landing gear. The fuselage, oval in cross-section,