Vicenza. The great Alpini Gathering of next May 10-12 was officially presented on Thursday morning in the main hall of Palazzo Folco in Vicenza. Thousands of Brescian Black Feathers are expected at the event.
The mayor of Vicenza, Giacomo Possamai, defined the Gathering as «a celebration, but also a unique occasion of memory, of transmission of values, of reflection and of culture» and, in a city «beautiful and cheerful thanks to the 30 thousand flags that dress it” he invited the people of Vicenza to be ready: “let everyone put their own piece in it”.
The mayor and Maurizio Pinamonti, president of Adunata Alpini 2024, made their citizenship debut to «not suffer the Gathering, but experience its overwhelming atmosphere».
«I am proud to host the 95th National Alpine Gathering – said Lino Marchiori, president of the ANA Vicenza “Monte Pasubio” Section – in what is an Alpine city of great and long tradition. The work was a lot, but the enthusiasm and commitment were even more and now, with what will be a huge gathering, Vicenza is the heart of Italy.”
«The motto of this gathering is the Alpini’s dream of peace – concluded the national president of ANA, Sebastiano Favero– and it is a motto that comes from the heart. To those who speak of a contradiction between a corps of arms and the dream of peace, I reply that peace is built day after day, by acting. Ours is an arms association that volunteers and, in the memory of our representatives, builds peace, builds it by doing. Above all volunteering, in fact, with 2.4 million hours spent serving the community, not only in disasters and emergencies. It is no coincidence that the World Summit of Nobel Prize winners, in 2019, awarded the ANA the Man of Peace prize, for the social commitment and sacrifice always demonstrated”.
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