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On 21 June the "World-wide Day of the Hydrography" will be celebrated
In occasion of the celebration Istituto Idrografico of Marina has organized a day "to open doors"
June 14, 2012
Like every year next the 21 june will celebrate the "World-wide Day of the instituted Hydrography" from the shareholders' meeting of the United Nations. The date remembers the birth, in 1921, of the International Hydrographic Bureau (IHB), with center in the Principality of Monk, that it has the task to coordinate, to harmonize and to promote the hydrographical activity world-wise.
In occasion of the celebration Istituto Idrografico of Marina (IIM) has organized one day "to doors opened" near its center to Genoa in order to allow with the citizens to see what happens behind the high wall of the ancient fortress, where the civil and military staff works in order to guarantee a sure navigation to who he goes for sea. The visitors will discover how much job and engagement then demand the construction of a chart having the opportunity to discover ancient Saint George Hard, already center of the Astronomical Observatory, of which some of the ancient used instruments will be able to be admired. The visit, with business hours dalle9.30 to the 12,00 and from the 14,30 to the 16,30, will finish inside with the produced delivery of a gadget for the occasion of the institute.
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