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Monday to Genoa will be introduced the volume "the Marine Stations of Genoa. Travels and passages"
It tells a history of the capital of Liguria seen through a particular magnifying glass
February 23, 2012
Next monday to hours 17,00 near the Hall of Prima Classe of the Marine Station of Bridge of the Thousands to Genoa will be introduced the volume "the Marine Stations of Genoa. Travels and passages - The Maritime Stations of Genoa jib. Travels and passages" (Sagep Editori). They will take part Ferdinando Lolli (Marine president Stazioni Spa), Edoardo Monzani (Marine managing director Stazioni Spa), Danilo Cabona (ISCUM - History Institute of the Material Culture), Matteo Fochessati (Wolfsoniana), Anna Castellano (president Sagep Editori) and Luigi Leone ("the Century XIX").
The Marine Station of Bridge of the Thousands, inaugurated in October 1930, and that of Andrea Doria Bridge, realized some years after in order more better supporting the intense naval traffic, saw to pass direct emigrating towards "the Merica", the passengers of the most famous ocean-going liners of the history of the Italian marineria, and also many personages of the world of politics, the culture and the show: in order to make only some names, Harry Truman, Orson Welles, Igor Stravinsky, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Elia Kazan.
The volume, cured from Marine Stations Spa with the aid of beyond 200 historical and current images and of accurate witnesses realized by Silvia Barisione, Danilo Cabona, Fabio Capocaccia, Matteo Fochessati, Edoardo Monzani, Enrico Pinna and Andrea Verdiani, tells a history of Genoa seen through a particular magnifying glass, that it leave from the XIX century and is articulated for all the ‘900.
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