THE MAISON DE LA PAIX

 

 CASA UNIVERSALE DELLE CULTURE

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture is a place strongly representative, in which will convey the knowledge of the different identities and cultures, structuring permanently initiatives aimed at the spreading of peace, necessary for the shared development.

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture (MdP) is a project conceived by Michele Capasso, approved by many Countries and international organizations. It is an architecture that keeps the memory of many Peace activities which created history, often more than the wars, but it is – above all – a space "to build” Peace.

The architectonical complex has an important symbolic worth: it represents the Countries of the World engaged in the Peace process and the Countries victim of the conflicts.

Proposed by the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the “Maison des Alliances” – together with the main adherent organizations, such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the League of Arab States, the "Anna Lindh" Euro-Mediterranean Foundation and others, the MdP represents a referent point for all the ones who dedicate their lives to peace.

The symbol of the MdP is the "Totem for Peace", an artwork by the Italian sculptor Mario Molinari which the Fondazione Mediterraneo is promoting all around the world, creating the network of the "Cities for Peace".

The first seat of the MdP was inaugurated on the 14th of June 2010 (Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture) in the historical building of the Grand Hotel de Londres in Naples.

The action of the Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture aims at improving the main activities of the "Universal Forum of Cultures" in: Barcelona (2004), Monterrey (2007), Valparaiso (2010) and Naples (2013).

The Maison de la Paix performs most of the initiatives jointly with the Maison de la Méditerranée.

 

PIETRO GRASSO RICEIVED THE MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR LEGALITY

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Gaeta | 04 February 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Pietro Grasso, as Antimafia National Direction Head, has received- during the 18° Antimafia National Summit held in occasion of the tenth anniversary of the death of the judge Caponetto – “MEDITERRANEAN AWARD RAFFAELE CAPASSO FOR LEGALITY” (medal of honour) 2012”.

On that occasion, the President of the Fondazione Caponnetto Salvatore Calleri together with the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso, and more than 500 delegates and students participating in the venue, announced the establishment of MOMOC (The Mediterranean Observatory on Mafia and Organized Crime).

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THE 2013 MEDITERRANEAN CINEMA AWARD TO “DEDA” (WAITING FOR MUM) BY NANA EKVTIMISHVILI

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Trieste | 26 January 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

At the Trieste Film Festival, with whom the Fondazione Mediterraneo has been collaborating since1995, the 2013 Mediterranean Cinema Award for the best short film was awarded to “Deda” (Waiting for Mum) by Nana Ekvtimishvili. The film focuses on a man’s voice calling his mother and was awarded by a jury of young people.

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22nd Edition of Trieste Film Festival

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Trieste | 20 January 2011
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

With about 200 films, many of which as international and national previews, the Trieste Film Festival is the main Italian event concerning the cinema of Centre-Eastern Europe, this year at its 22nd edition, rendering homage to the master of Slovakian cinema Dušan Hanák.

Thanks to the variety and interest of its programme, including feature films, short films and documentaries participating in the competition, retrospectives, homages, the festival is nowadays recognised as an event not to be lost as well as a show off for the cinema of the “New Europe”.

The Fondazione Mediterraneo has been cooperating with the Trieste Film Festival since 1995, granting the Mediterranean Cinema Award to the best short film.

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24TH EDITION OF THE TRIESTE FILM FESTIVAL

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Trieste | 17 January 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

With approximately 200 titles, many of which were shown as international and national previews, the Trieste Film Festival has come to be known as the key event for central-east European cinema. Films compete in the full length feature films, short films and documentaries categories, but the festival also includes retrospectives and tributes and it is now a major venue for film lovers who consider it the show case for “New Europe” cinematography.

The Fondazione Mediterraneo has been collaborating with the Trieste Film Festival since1995, where it awards the Mediterranean Cinema Award to the best short film competing.

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ARCHITECT CAPASSO IN FLORENCE FOR THE “FISHBONE” IN BRUNELLESCHI’S DOME

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Firenze | 26 January 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Michele Capasso, architect, reminisced about his research in 1979, when as a young architect, he demonstrated the model used by Brunelleschi for the construction of the Dome. He was attending an event to celebrate the discovery of a model of the Dome which makes clear reference to the “fishbone system” used to raise the dome with stone blocks reaffirms Brunelleschi’s technique thanks to excavations carried our by the Cathedral Works.

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