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In a message sent to the Mayor of Turin Sergio Chiamparino, the President ofthe Province of Turin, Antonio Saitta, and the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso, President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano expressed his satisfaction for the realization in Turin of the Tricolored Totem for Peace by sculptor Mario Molinari.


Napolitano expressed "deep appreciation for this important initiative with which Turin wanted to remember the 150th Anniversary of the Italian Unity".

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On May 4, was opened in Turin the Tricolored Totem for Peace by the Italian sculptor Mario Molinari, during the visit of President Napolitano for the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy.
Great participation of the public for the inauguration ceremony of the monumental work "Tricolored Totem for Peace", including the young people of the civil service, the Moroccan community of Turin, the Moroccan Consul Nourredine Radhi. Numerous messages were received, including that of the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, the President of the Republic of Malta Gorge Abela, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini and the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, who applauded this initiative by sharing its high aims.

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Completed in Turin the monumental work by Molinari.

Councillor for Culture and for the 150th Anniversary of the Italian Unity at the Municipality of Turin prof. Fiorenzo Alfieri and the President of Fondazione Mediterraneo prof. Michele Capasso, during a press conference held in Turin, presented the Tricolored Totem for Peace, which will open Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at 18:00, between Corso Lecce and Corso Regina Margherita, on the occasion of the visit of President Giorgio Napolitano.

On this occasion Councillor Alfieri remembered the artistic importance of Mario Molinari, artist known in the world and President Capasso retraced the story of the Totem for Peace and the symbolic value of the Tricolored Totem for Peace in Turin, as a representation of unity for the 150th Anniversary of the Italian Unity.

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