Luciano Delbianco

Luciano Delbianco (10 June 1954 – 29 September 2014) was a Croatian electrical engineer, musician and politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as Mayor of Pula.

After completing his studies in 1983, he received the academic degree of Master of Technical Sciences in the scientific field of electrical engineering.

Despite occasional incidents, attempts to provoke an armed conflict and attacks on the Municipal Crisis Staff based at the Communal Palace, he managed to have the JNA leave the city peacefully on 15 December 1991.

[10] In January 1997, at the Pazin County Assembly, IDS members voted no confidence in the prefect, so Delbianco did not reach the end of his term.

[1] At the end of 1998, he received his PhD from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Zagreb with the topic Contribution to the research of the influence of resistant grounding of star points on overvoltage heights and protective earthing system in distribution networks (Doprinos istraživanju utjecaja otpornog uzemljenja zvjezdišta na visine prenapona i na sistem zaštitnog uzemljenja u razdjelnim mrežama), obtaining the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences.

Their performance at the Pula Arena is especially remembered, when, on occasion of the 3000th anniversary of the city, they played and sang the Istrian hit "Only angels know" (Samo anđeli znaju).