ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “Today we celebrate the National Day of Christopher Columbus, established in 2004 to honor one of the greatest Italians of which Italy can be gratified. With his extraordinary journey of 533 years ago, Colombo gave the world another world. He made an adventure that no one else had imagined before him. He sailed to the West, beyond the boundaries of the world at the time known. A “new Ulysses”, which did not shipwreck but which succeeded in one of the most glorious companies of all time. Enterprise that marked the passage from the Middle Ages to the Modern Ages, rewrote geography and changed political, cultural and economic relations among peoples. The journey of Colombo has laid the foundations of that indissoluble bond that unites the two shores of the Atlantic, Europe and America, and which represents the core of what we call the West. Not a physical or geographical space, but a system of values that we want to defend and preserve. Our mission is not to break down the statues of the past and erase the heroes who shaped our identity, but to add to that story our statues and our heroes, with pride and humility.” This is said in a message by Premier Giorgia Meloni on the occasion of the National Day dedicated to Christopher Columbus.
“Today we resend our identity and work to strengthen it, because without that identity we cannot return great and return to the West its role in the world – he adds. Today Colombo is remembered in many nations in the world, starting from the United States. The great Genoese navigator is the origin of the links that unite the Italian people to the American people. Tie me today more solid than ever, thanks to the valuable contribution of the Italian-American community to the development, prosperity and strength of the United States.” “Defend and celebrate Colombo means defending and celebrating our deep identity and what makes us, in the world, so loved, appreciated and respected,” concludes Meloni.
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