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The ”Silver Dolphin” Mediterranean Award Special Edition 2011 was conferred on Giovanni Morra’s Bagno Elena.
The Awarding ceremony took place on Friday 23rd September 2011 at Bagno Elena.
The award was given by Michele Capasso.
«Thanks to the active and silent engagement of Giovanni Morra and his children Mario and Antonella, the BAGNO ELENA at Posillipo - with TERME PAUSYLIA - is a unique and precious place for well-being and life quality: it is the example of a family which is confident in the renascence of Neapolitan entrepreneurial class and which, by its love for the sea, continues the tradition of the bathing establishments on piles. This important action is an example for the tourist renascence of Naples and for the preservation of “Sea Resource”.
This is the main reason which pushed the international Jury of the « Mediterranean Award » - made up of representatives of 43 Euro-Mediterranean Countries- to confer on Giovanni Morra’s Bagno Elena the «Silver Dolphin- Special Edition 2011» of the Award, which is considered one of the most prestigious at the international level.

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The Mediterranean Award for Interfaith Dialogue was attributed to Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino.
The Awarding ceremony took place on Friday 23rd September 2011 at the Sala Giunta of San Giacomo Palace.
The award was given by Senator Leonzio Borea and by the mayor of Pietrelcina Domenico Masone.
On that occasion, on the very day of San Pio celebration, a memorandum of understanding was signed by the Commune of Pietrelcina and the Fondazione Mediterraneo, according to which every year there will be meetings on interfaith dialogue and the prize-giving ceremony for this section of the Award will be held every year at Pietrelcina, with the name of “ Mediterranean Award San Pio da Pietrelcina for Inter-faith Dialogue”.

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The Mediterranean Award Special Edition 2011 – City for Peace was attributed to the mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris.
The Awarding ceremony took place on Friday 23rd September 2011 in the Sala Giunta of San Giacomo Palace.
The award was given by Pia Molinari and Michele Capasso.
« A sign of esteem and challenge so that, under the direction of the Mayor Luigi de Magistris, the European Thought and the Mediterranean Spirit may be realised through a renewal of the City of Naples based on active competence and social involvement ».
This is the main reason which pushed the international Jury of the « Mediterranean Award » - made up of representatives of 43 Euro-Mediterranean Countries- to confer on the City of Naples and on the Mayor Luigi de Magistris the « Special Edition 2011 – City for Peace » of the Award, considered as one of the most prestigious at the international level and « attributed every two years to personalities and institutions which have given a strong contribution to the dissemination of culture and of social solidarity ».
In the previous editions the « Mediterranean Award Special Edition » was attributed, among others, to the Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz, to Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, to the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music.

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The ceremony of inauguration of the “Totem of Peace” by the sculptor Mario Molinari was held at Thermae Pausilya (Pausilya Thermal Baths).
Among those present - with Giovanni, Mario and Antonella Morra – the of Southern Italy Harbour Master Admiral Picone, the president of the Tribunal of Naples Carlo Alemi, the mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris, the vice president of the Province of Naples Gennaro Ferrara, the secretary general of the Port Authority Emilio Squillante, the secretary general of UCOI Michele di Gianni, the president of Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso with Pia Molinari - responsible for the project “Totem of Peace across the World” - and Claudio Azzolini – responsible for institutional relations -, professors Marco Salvatore and Dauphin Colemann, Emanuele and Luciana Vittorio, Rosario Bianco, the consuls of Venezuela, Malta, Albania, Cyprus, Pakistan and other representatives of the diplomatic and consular corps.
The totem was blessed by Don Antonio from the Church of Santa Maria del Parto, with a particularly touching ceremony.

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The president of Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso handed over to the mayor of Naples Luigi de Magistris the “ Tricolour Totem of Peace” by the sculptor Mario Molinari, expressly made for the president of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy.
The “Totem of Peace” was symbolically handed over by the President of the Province of Turin Antonio Saitta, by the ambassador of Palestine to the European Union Leila Shahid and by the Councillor of Moroccan Prime Minister Driss Guerraoui.
President Saitta sent a letter for the occasion.
The Totem will be given to the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano.

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