150 YEARS OF PORT CAPTAINCY-COAST GUARD: MARITIME STATION DEDICATES THE SQUARE TO THEM

Napoli | 20 July 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Totem for Peace

One-hundred fifty years of history. One century and half spent helping, rescue and save human lives. The General Captain Admiral celebrated this event through events held all over the country. The event held in Naples was really impressive and was lead by Admiral Antonio Basile, maritime director for Campania region: the square before the Maritime Station will named “Coast Guard Square”, in memorial off all the militaries dead in duty and in celebration of the continue engagement of the Army.
In the middle of the square Fondazione Mediterraneo donated to the Army of Port Captaincy- Coast Guard, in occasion of its 150° anniversary, the “Totem of Peace” by Molinari sculptor and which contains the urn of unknown Migrant, and donated also the “Mediterranean Award” for the indefatigable work of help and safeguard of human lives.
The president Capasso, in a message send to Admiral Angrisano and Admiral Basile affirmed to be flattered and proud to have given his support in order to spread the values of the Army and its noble mission.

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MANA SAEED TO - OTAIBA WELCOMES MOLINARI

Marrakech | 13 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Totem for Peace

In occasion of the “Mediterranean Award for Poetry and Innovation 2015” attributed to him, Mana Saeed Al-Otaiba was gifted by the Mario Molinari “Totem of Peace”.
Expressing his gratitude and emotion, To - Otaiba welcomed Pia and Jacopo Molinari in its house of Marrakech being proud for the speech gived by Pia Molinari about his poetical work, in occasion of award ceremony.
In this occasion Jacopo Molinari gifted the artist with the volume on the work of Mario Molinari.

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THE AMBASSADORS OF THE REBIRTH PAID HOMAGE TO THE URN WITH THE REMAINS OF UNKNOWN MIGRANT

Napoli | 13 May 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Totem for Peace

The president Michele Capasso along with the “Ambassadors of Peace” paid homage to the “Totem of Peace with the urn of Unknown Migrant” in the Maritime Station of Naples.
“The Totem of Peace is an universal symbol and Casale di Principe is proud to host in the next few months this important artwork of the artist Molinari: it will be dedicated to Don Peppe Diana and all the victims of mafia”.
The guys of the project “The Ambassadors of the Rebirth” expressed their approval for the artwork and commemorated the migrants who lost their lives in the Mediterranean and deposed flowers on the monument.

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WORLD LEADERS TO GATHER IN NAPLES FOR UNKNOWN MIGRANT DAY

Napoli | 28 April 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Totem for Peace

In October; homage paid at monument at maritime station.

(ANSAmed) - NAPLES - Eight heads of state and government will on October 3 pay homage to the Unknown Migrant at a monument in Naples. The announcement was made by Fondazione Mediterraneo president Michele Capasso. In recent days Capasso received Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) secretary-general Sergio Piazzi, who paid a tribute to the monument located in the city's maritime station. The monument that commemorates the continuing tragedies of migrants who die trying to cross the Mediterranean received praise from EU MPs on the choice of location for its ''symbolic importance, as it is from the square facing the Naples maritime station that millions of people departed last century for a better future''. Piazzi put in the urn at the monument a document attesting to the participation and patronage of the initiative. The plan for the monument, notes a statement from Fondazione Mediterraneo, was presented during the PAM plenary session in Palermo on October 29, 2011. The announcement was then made of a ''Day Dedicated to the Unknown Migrant'' on October 3, approved by the Chamber of Deputies. It is to pay tribute to the memory of the migrants that on July 2, 2014, Fondazione Mediterraneo's international committee (which has PAM observer status) decided to dedicate to them the 'Totem of Peace' containing the remains of the Unknown Migrant. The work by the sculptor Mario Molinari was placed in the square in front of the maritime station of the Naples port. Fondazione Mediterraneo gave the work to the Coast Guard of the port authorities for the 150th anniversary of their founding (1865-2015) to acknowledge the work of the 11,000 men and women who risk their lives every day to rescue the migrants whose boats capsized. The urn with the remains from Lampedusa was made of wood from the boats used by the migrants, the same as was used for the altar at which Pope Francis officiated over mass on the island. It was put in the ''Totem of Peace by Lampedusa Coast Guard commander Giuseppe Cannarile as an act of solidarity towards the victims by Coast Guard personnel.

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