Volta

Volta may refer to:

Persons

 * Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist and inventor of the electric battery, count and eponym of the volt
 * Giovanni Volta (1928–2012), Italian Roman Catholic bishop
 * Giovanni Serafino Volta (1764–1842) Italian priest, naturalist and paleontologist
 * Massimo Volta (born 1987), Italian footballer
 * Leopoldo Camillo Volta (1751–1823) Italian librarian and historian of Mantua

Places

 * Volta, California, a census-designated place in Merced County, California, US
 * Volta Mantovana, an Italian municipality in the Lombardy region
 * Porta Volta, a former city gate of Milan, Italy
 * Volta Grande, a Brazilian municipality in the Minas Gerais state
 * Volta Redonda, a Brazilian municipality in the Rio de Janeiro state
 * Upper Volta (disambiguation)
 * Lake Volta, in Ghana
 * Volta Region, in Ghana
 * Volta River, primarily flowing in Ghana, with its headstreams:
 * White Volta
 * Red Volta
 * Black Volta
 * Volta (crater), a crater on the Moon
 * 8208 Volta, a main belt asteroid

Technology and products

 * Volta (microarchitecture), the initial codename for the microarchitecture to succeed the Pascal (microarchitecture) developed by Nvidia
 * Volta Charging, American electric vehicle infrastructure company
 * Microsoft Live Labs Volta, a web development toolset by Microsoft
 * Toyota Alessandro Volta, a hybrid concept vehicle
 * Volta, a brand of vacuum cleaners by Electrolux

Organisations

 * Volta Laboratory and Bureau, research and philanthropic institutions created by Alexander Graham Bell in the US
 * Volta Aluminum Company, a company based in Ghana
 * Volta River Authority, the main electricity supplier in Ghana
 * Volta Regional Museum, an ethnographic history museum in Ho, Ghana
 * Volta Cinematograph, first cinema of Dublin. started by, among others, James Joyce
 * Volta Trucks, an electric truck manufacturer
 * Volta (Estonian company), factory in Tallinn, Estonia

Sports

 * Volta a Portugal, an annual professional road bicycle race in Portugal
 * Volta ao Algarve, an annual road bicycle racing stage race in the Algarve, Portugal
 * Volta a Catalunya, an annual professional road bicycle race in Catalonia, Spain
 * Volta a Lleida, a road cycling stage race held in the Lleida region of Spain
 * Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, a former road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community, Spain
 * Volta Feminina da República, a Brazil women's staged cycle race
 * Volta ao Distrito de Santarém, an annual Portuguese road bicycle racing stage race in the Santárem district

Other uses

 * Volta (album), a 2007 album by Björk
 * Volta (dance), a Renaissance dance for couples
 * Volta (literature), a point of dramatic change in a poem
 * Una Volta, the 3rd album from the band DeVotchKa
 * Volta (film), a 2004 Philippine movie
 * Volta (TV series), a 2008 Philippine TV series based on its namesake 2004 movie
 * Volta (Brescia Metro), a railway station in Brescia, Italy
 * Volta Review, the journal of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
 * Volta bracket, a musical repeat sign
 * Volta Prize, an award by the French government for scientific achievement in electricity
 * Edison Volta Prize, a biannual award by the European Physical Society (EPS)
 * Volta Conference, an interwar cycle of cultural meetings
 * Villa Volta, an attraction in the amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands
 * VOLTA (Cirque du Soleil), a touring big top show by Cirque du Soleil