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150° of the Italian Unity

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

Napoli || 04 March 2011
Iniziative (EN) - 150° of the Italian Unity

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.

The Totem for Peace is also the symbol of the Mediterranean Award granted every year since 1996 by the Fondazione Mediterraneo to political, cultural and artistic personalities who have helped start up a valorisation process of cultural differences and shared values within the Greater Mediterranean area. Diana Pezza Borrelli (President of the Jewish-Christian Friendship Association, of the Political Movement for Unity - Movimento dei Focolari – of Campania) was also present and, on 17 March in Benevento, together with Alberta Levi Temin, she was granted the Mediterranean Social Solidarity Award 2011.

Web TVs as well as the channels that are part of the Fondazione Mediterraneo network were connected to the event.

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