Nave Amerigo Vespucci, currently moored in Maryland in Baltimore for SAIL250 Maryland, will reach New York waters on Thursday 2 July.
It will be moored at the bottom off New Jersey until the morning of 4 July, the day when it will take part in the Sail4th250 – International Naval Review, the great parade on the Hudson River on the occasion of the 250-year celebrations of the independence of the United States.
Over fifty large sailing ships and naval units from all over the world will go up the river from the Verrazzano Bridge to the George Washington Bridge, passing in front of the Statue of Liberty. It will be one of the most significant moments of the new chapter of the Amerigo Vespucci World Tour – Campaign in North America 2026, started in Genoa on 9 May, with which the Nave Scuola della Marina Militare continues to bring in the world beauty, identity, dialogue between peoples and culture of Italy and Italians.
Announced by the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, the World Tour Amerigo Vespucci – Campaign in North America 2026 is an initiative of the Ministry of Defense and the Navy, produced by Defense Services S.p.A, which is part of the official program of celebrations of the 250 years of independence of the United States.
The project is developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Culture, the Minister for Sport and Youth and the Minister for Disability.
They support the project Vespucci World Tour – Campaign in North America 2026: ITA – Italian Trade Agency, Fiera di Verona-Vinitaly e Enel.
At the end of the parade, Nave Amerigo Vespucci will remain moored until Wednesday, July 8, at Pier 86 (the dock of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum) where he will be involved in a dense program of institutional commitments hosting on board some special events. In particular on board, during the World Tour Vespucci – Campaign in North America 2026, Italian excellence will be celebrated in the world with the presentation of the next edition of Vinitaly. USA and within the event “Vespucci & America’s Cup: the two icons of the sea meet in New York” will be welcomed and exposed exceptionally the trophy, coming from New Zealand, the America’s Cup, one of the most anticipated international sporting events that will be held in Italy next year, symbol of the great sailing. On board will also be an event organized by the city of Genoa, city from which last May 9 the Vespucci World Tour – Campaign in North America.
In the days of rest in New York are expected on board Nave Amerigo Vespucci: the Secretary of State for Defense Matteo Perego of Cremnago – on delegation of the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, the Minister for Sport and Young People Andrea Abodi, the Chief of State of the Navy Admiral Giuseppe Berutti Bergotto, the General Commander of the Carabinieri General of Corpo d’Arghi Luca Andreoli.
They will also be present: the President of Sport and Health Marco Mezzaroma, the CEO of America’s Cup Partnership Marzio Perrelli, the President of ITA – Italian Trade Agency Matteo Zoppas and the President of Veronafiere and Vinitaly Federico Bricolo.
For Nave Amerigo Vespucci it is the ninth visit to New York; the first in 1933, when it reached the city at the end of its first ocean crossing after leaving Gibraltar, followed by the second visit that was after the war in 1951; the most recent visits were in 2000 and 2017, confirming the solid link between Italy and the United States.
Starting from the very name of the ship, which bears that of Amerigo Vespucci, the famous navigator and Florentine explorer who first realized that the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus were part of a New World, a continent that in his honor was called America. It was then always the United States to consecrate Nave Amerigo Vespucci as “the most beautiful ship in the world” when, in 1962, in the Mediterranean Sea, the American carrier unit USS Independence asked “Who are you?” and received in response “Nave school Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Navy”, obtaining the famous greeting: “You are the most beautiful ship in the world.” Sixty years later, in 2022, crossing the American carrier USS George H. W. Bush, the radio message confirmed that fame: “You are still, after 60 years, the most beautiful ship in the world.”.
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