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To Lerici the eightieth anniversary of the conquest of the Blue Tape by the Rex will be celebrated
On all it will dominate a shape of 85 meters for 35 of the ocean-going liner
July 24, 2013
Next Sunday to Lerici (La Spezia) the official inauguration of the eightieth anniversary of the conquest of the Blue Tape by the Rex ocean-going liner will hold under the guide of the commander lericino Francesco Tarabotto who with the crew, composed from many lericini, carried to term the enterprise carrying Italy on the summit of the seas.
The anniversary will be celebrated by the municipality of Lerici, from the Harbour Authority of and from the Marine society of Mutual Aid with numerous initiatives that will continue for all the August month, with exhibitions, meets, presentations of books, dances years thirty. On all it will dominate a shape of 85 meters for 35, devised and planned by Marco Condotti, that it will reproduce on the reef of Mazzini Descent the Rex, giant of the seas illuminated from tens of thousands of lights: the structure is composed from 10 kilometers of pulling cables and, five kilometers of luminous cables and 50,000 points light led; an only project to the world, realized for this occasion from the Mariano Light company of C#lecce.
Prepared in the yards of Sestri West, to Genoa, in 1932 the Rex is the larger ocean-going liner never constructed in those years in Italy. The next year the victory for fastest crossing of the Atlantic, from Europe to North America, in four days, 13 hours and 58 minutes, adjudicating themselves the trophy and tearing the record to the German ocean-going liner Bremen.
"To eighty years from this historical enterprise that has been profitable us it celebrates in the world - the mayor of Lerici has declared, Marco Caluri - we have intentional to remember with a series of initiatives, the figure of commander lericino Tarabotto and the crew that has carried to us on the summit of the seas". "The Rex - spezzina has agreed the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority, Lorenzo Forcieri - evokes a Italy of the primates in many fields: of the economy, of the technology as well as, naturally, in the field of the shipbuilding and in the tourism in which Spezia and the Liguria they have always primeggiato. He is to this Italy of the excellence that we must return if we want to fight the crisis, to get back on top and to return to grow".
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Next Sunday to Lerici (La Spezia) the official inauguration of the eightieth anniversary of the conquest of the Blue Tape by the Rex ocean-going liner will hold under the guide of the commander lericino Francesco Tarabotto who with the crew, composed from many lericini, carried to term the enterprise carrying Italy on the summit of the seas.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
