# 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
* 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 potential, difference in potential in electrochemistry
* 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 Congress, an interwar cycle of cultural meetings
* Como Conference, also known as Volta Conference
* 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