Livorno celebrates the Amerigo Vespucci, the world's most beautiful ship, with an exhibition

From Aug. 3 to Oct. 30, 2022, the City Museum at Livorno ’s Bottini dell’Olio will celebrate theAmerigo Vespucci, the Italian Navy’s training ship, with an exhibition. A photographic exhibition titled The Most Beautiful in the World featuring some 50 photos by Maki Galimberti and Massimo Sestini, through which it is intended to show a never-before-seen face of the famous sailing ship, launched in the Castellammare di Stabia shipyards in 1931. Author ’s shots of the men and women who made up the prestigious crew, filmed in their daily activities. The exhibition is promoted by the City of Livorno together with L.E.M. under the patronage of the Region of Tuscany and the Navy, and is curated by Carla Bardelli.

The title of the exhibition takes its cue from the phrase of the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Independence, which crossed the Vespucci in 1962 in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. With flashes of lightning the ship was asked to identify itself. The response was “Training ship Amerigo Vespucci. Italian Navy.” The American commander replied, “The most beautiful ship in the world.”

It is a 101-meter sailing ship with twenty-nine olona canvas sails, still sewn by hand. An Italian excellence in the world, a friend of the people of Livorno, who for generations have watched her several times a year in port, she wants to become through the City Museum exhibition, a symbol of the friendship that binds the city to the prestigious Naval Academy.

For more info: www.museodellacittalivorno.it

Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Full 5 euros, reduced 3 euros. Free for Officer Cadets and Officers of the Livorno Naval Academy.

Livorno celebrates the Amerigo Vespucci, the world's most beautiful ship, with an exhibition

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