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

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Napoli | 04 March 2011
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: 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 – 4th floor ), the official programme of the initiatives to be held in Turin for the 150th 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 150th 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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From Rabat to Turin, the Tricolored Totem for Peace

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Roma-Napoli | 02 March 2011
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: 150° of the Italian Unity

On  2 March  2011 Michele Capasso, president of Fondazione Mediterraneo met the president of the Moroccan Parliament Abdelwahed Radi  in Rome and the mayor of Turin Sergio Chiamparino in Naples, playing the role of “carrier” of the Totem for Peace.

The President of the Chamber of Representatives of the Moroccan Kingdom  Abdelwahed Radi – Secretary-General of the Moroccan socialist party – has formally handed over the Totem for Peace  to the  mayor of Turin Sergio Chiamparino. Since 4 March 2011, Radi is the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean: an institution joined by the delegations of 43 Countries, established in 2003 at the Fondazione Mediterraneo.

On the same day, President Capasso met the mayor of Turin Sergio Chiamparino in Naples, with whom he has agreed to realize the "Tricolored Totem" on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Italian Unity.

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The Tricolored Totem for Peace will be raised in Turin to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Italian Unity

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Torino | 24 January 2011
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: 150° of the Italian Unity

A  Totem for Peace with the colours of the Italian flag will be raised in Turin, in 2011, on the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th Anniversary  of the Italian Unity. The news was given in Naples by Michele Capasso, president of Fondazione Mediterraneo during the presentation of the initiatives for the Shoah Day.

The International Committee of Fondazione Mediterraneo – entrusted with the implementation of the Totems for Peace worldwide – has permitted to build a Totem aimed at paying tribute to the 150th  Anniversary of the Italian Unity. The Totem, that will be unveiled by the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano, will be 16 meters high, built in reinforced concrete and  thoroughly tricolour, in honour of the national flag colours.

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Youth and challenge of the globalization

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Fès | 12 December 2011
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Fez Forum 2011

The Fez Forum is being organized this year by the Moroccan Interdisciplinary Center for Strategic and International Studies (CMIESI), the Fondazione Mediterraneo (FM) and the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (MPA), in collaboration with a number of partners among which the League of the Arab States. This forum to provide an opportunity for young people of our world, specialists, academics, politicians, diplomats, international civil servants, and actors of the civil society to get together with the aim of debating, exchanging views, analyzing and reflecting on essential issues that affect our contemporary societies.
For the Fondazione Mediterraneo: the president Michele Capasso, Pia Molinari and Driss Guerraoui (members of the foundation, youth area).

 

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