150th Anniversary of the Italian Unity: the FM participates in the press conference

Torino | 10 March 2011
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The Fondazione Mediterraneo took part in the press conference presenting initiatives to be undertaken in Turin for the 150^th Anniversary of the Italian Unity.

The press conference took place in the Teatro Carignano of Turin with speeches by Antonio Saitta, Vice president of the Committee Italia 150 and President of the Province of Turin, Renato Cigliuti, coordinator of Notte Tricolore, Marcello Vitella, organisational director of the exhibition and Roberto Vecchioni.

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Mediterranean Award "Honour Medal" 2011 to Antonio Saitta

Torino | 10 March 2011
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On the occasion of the celebrations for the 150^th Anniversary of the Italian Unity, the President of Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso informed the President of the Province of Turin Antonio Saitta that he had been granted the "Medal Honour" of the Mediterranean Award 2011, consisting of the work Totem for Peace by the sculptor Mario Molinari. The official ceremony will be held in Naples in May.

President Saitta is sponsor of the Tricolored Totem for Peace which will be realized in Turin during the next weeks inside the Pellerina Park, on the corner of Corso Regina Margherita and Corso Lecce.

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Press Conference: Turin, Capital of the 150th Anniversary of the Italian Unity

Napoli | 04 March 2011
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On Friday 4 March 2011 at 12: 20 a.m., in the Sala Vesuvio at the seat of the Fondazione Mediterraneo – “Maison de la Paix” (130, Via Depretis, Naples – 4^th floor ), the official programme of the initiatives to be held in Turin for the 150^th Anniversary of the Italian Unity was presented.

The press conference started with the greeting of Michele Capasso, president of the Fondazione Mediterraneo. Then followed speeches by: Fiorenzo Alfieri, in charge of Culture and of the 150^th Anniversary of the Italian Unity at the Municipality of Turin, Carla Testore, for the Communication and Press Bureau of the Cultural Valorisation Consortium La Venaria Reale and Prof. Pierluigi Leone de Castris, curator of the Naples section within the exhibition “La Bella Italia”. The works were coordinated by Roberto Race, member of the international scientific committee of the Fondazione Mediterraneo.

On this occasion the project “TRICOLORED TOTEM FOR PEACE” by the Turinese sculptor Mario Molinari which is due to be realized in Turin along Corso Regina Margherita and Corso Lecce, as a symbol of Peace and Unity, was presented. During the same day, Abdelwahed Radi, president of the Moroccan Parliament and of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean handed over symbolically the Totem for Peace to the mayor of Turin Sergio Chiamparino: in fact the “Totem for Peace” has been recently realized at the seat of the Moroccan Parliament.

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Chocolates of the Unification

Napoli | 04 March 2011
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Mrs Marisa del Vecchio Maglietta, general manager of the established chocolate factory GAY-ODIN - present in Italy since 1894 - presented President Capasso and the delegation from Turin led by the assessor Fiorenzo Alfieri with “tricolore chocolates” to celebrate the 150^th anniversary of the Unification of Italy.

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