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The exhibition will open to public between the 1st and the 21st of June and will host 20 important paintings from the Florence gallery of the Uffizi. The light defeats the shadow put attention on the painting of Neapolitan artists of 1600 or artist bond to Naples in some way of and however “attracted” by the style of Caravaggio: amazing pictures of Artemisia Gentileschi (Saint Caterina of Alexandria), of Luca Giordano (The Charity), of Mattia Preti (Vanity will be in Casal di Principe,) but there will be also contemporary incursions such as works by Andy Warhol in order to show and to value works which today we can find between Naples and Florence.
Along with the magnificent works by these great authors, it will be possible to visit the confiscated places and the excellent products as mozzarella and the wine made in lands confiscated to the mafias, accompanied from the “Ambassadors of the Rebirth”, young guys who live in Casal di Principe and who will tell the good and the bad sides of this earth destroyed but happy to rebirth.
In such way, the exhibition aims at contributing to the daily work of construction of a social and economic alternative for the re-launch of territories which for long time have been destroyed over the years.
“The light defeats the shadow – the Uffizi at Casal di Principe” is look after by Antonio Natali (Director of the Gallery of the Uffizi) and Fabrizio Vona (Director of Apulia Regional Museum Directorate) and will be host near the House of Don Diana, in Via Urano 18 in Casal di Principe, Caserta.
The exhibition is under the high patronage of the Presidency of the Republic and has as sponsor the Ministry of Tourism and Cultural Activities, the National Gallery of the Uffizi, the National Museum of Capodimonte, the Royal Palace of Caserta, the Campania Museum of Capua, the Municipality of Casal di Principe.
Also Fondazione Mediterraneo sponsors this initiative.

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The deans of twelve Universities of the Mediterranean gathered together at Federico II in order to share a scientific, cultural and educational path. They signed an agreement that aims to promote the research and the Lifelong Education. The agreement is the first step in the establishment of MUNA - Mediterranean and Middle East University Network, a net of universities that they cooperate in the field of the pre and post bachelor. Joined to the event the Vice president of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, prof. Caterina Arcidiacono who in her opening speech highlighted the role of the Fondazione Mediterraneo in the promotion of the Networks of Universities: from the creation of “ALMAMED” (Network of 174 Euro-Mediterranean Universities ) to the establishment of RIDE (Italian Network for the Dialogue Euro-Mediterranean), that gathers together the most important Italian Universities working for the cooperation in the Mediterranean. In this occasion she has remembered the link between the University Cadi Ayyad of Marrakech - first seat of the Fondazione Mediterraneo in Morocco - and the First PHD Honoris Causa attribuited by this University to president Capasso on 9th March 2007.

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“Fondazione Mediterraneo wishes to all Muslims a happy Ramadān. Ramadān Karim”. The president Michele Capasso declares today, at the beginning of Ramadān, the ninth month of the year of the Islamic calendar, during which the Muslims practice the fast (sawm) which is one of the pillar of Islam. According to the Islamic tradition, in fact, the Ramadān marks the revelation of the Quran to men, since the 27th the evening of the month, (Laylat-al-Qadr, the night of the power), when the sacred text was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by Archangel Gabriel.


We receive the beginning of the Ramadān with joy and respect. On the contrary of the Islamic fundamentalist movements which spread hate and violence in Middle East and the West mistaking the sense of the Islamic religion, there is a “pure” Islam represented by thousands of Muslims and which affirms the respect of other religions, bringing a universal message of peace. We keep on in our engagement - Capasso concludes - in favour of the inter-religious dialogue proposing solutions capable of assuring the identification of the other and the mutual cohabitation”.

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On the 16th of June1985 the president Michele Capasso visited Marrakech for the first time.
Among the many memories, events and activities carried out in these thirty years in “the pink” city there were: Cinemamed, Medpride, the events of the Anna Lindh Foundation, the conventions, conferences and activities of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Marrakech Centre: and there was also the 10th anniversary of the Chaire Averroès Unesco of High Mediterranean Studies.
Capasso has remembered the many Moroccan friends: from Mohamed Knidiri to the Ahmed Jebli mourning, Farid Belchaia to Said and Zora Margoul.

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