Nave Amerigo Vespucci, which started on 9 May from Genoa, crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the eastern coast of the United States for the new chapter of the Amerigo Vespucci World Tour – Campaign in North America 2026 with which it continues to bring in the world beauty, identity, dialogue between peoples and culture of Italy and Italians.
Announced in September 2025 by the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, on the occasion of the press conference of the Vespucci World Tour 2023-2025, the “World Tour Amerigo Vespucci – Campaign in North America 2026”, an initiative of the Ministry of Defense and the Navy produced by Defense Services S.p.A. (the company in house of the Ministry of Defense that values in a dual key the assets of the Dicastery), is inserted in the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the 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.
The U.S. Navy, in 2021, invited the Navy to take part in SAIL250, the global gathering of great sailors and military ships that, with stops in Baltimore (SAIL250 Maryland), New York (Sail4th 250) and Boston (Sail Boston), brings together the most important naval units in the world. In New York, on July 4, Nave Amerigo Vespucci will take part in the most important event of the celebrations, the International Naval Review 250 that will bring the most beautiful sailing ships of the world to climb up the Hudson River from the Verrazzano Bridge, passing in front of the Statue of Liberty, to the George Washington Bridge.
Ship Amerigo Vespucci has reached today the port of Baltimore, the largest and most populous city of Maryland.
After 47 days of sailing from Genoa, Nave Vespucci has obtained new primates: with the last crossing of the Atlantic it has exceeded the record of the 2.899 miles traveled with sailing, beating the record of the addestrative campaign of 1992.
The Captain of Vascello Nicasio Falica – Commander of Nave Amerigo Vespucci – chose with the crew to travel 500 more nautical miles hunting for the winds, thus extending the route with respect to the direct crossing, and thus managing to sail 12 consecutive days only sailing.
Vespucci – with the arrival in Baltimore – also reached 3,661 nautical miles, establishing the new primacy as the longest route crossed by the ship since 1952.
In Baltimore Nave Amerigo Vespucci is moored at the waterfront of Tide Point, in the area of Locust Point, along with other boats that will take part in the SAIL250 Maryland parade from 25 June to 1 July accompanied by the return of the famous acrobatic patrol of the American Navy the “Blue Angels”, at the airport Martin State (open to the public). Sunday, June 28 at 7 pm in the underboard dock will hold the concert “From Vespucci to America: A Musical Journey by internationally renowned Italian pianist Cristiana Pegoraro in homage to the celebrations of America250. The event is organized by the General Consulate of Italy in Philadelphia at the conclusion of a cycle of conferences on the Italian contribution to the American Declaration of Independence and the subsequent constituting process of the United States.
Also in Baltimore Nave Vespucci will embark students of the First Class of the Naval Academy of Livorno, for the usual training campaign, which will end in Italy with the landing in Taranto. On board, the students will live the “baptism of the sea” and will prepare to become Officials of the Navy according to the secular traditions of the Italian marine, alternating sailing activities and technical training to activities of Naval Diplomacy, within the official program of celebrations for the 250th anniversary of the Independence of the United States.
On 1 July Vespucci will leave Baltimore for New York City, the second and most important stage of the Amerigo Vespucci World Tour – Campaign in North America 2026, where on 4 July, the day on which the anniversary of American independence will take part in the Sail4th250 the biggest event, organized in the port of New York, which will see to parade over 50 heel ships and more than forty naval units in the most spectacular marit.
Nave Amerigo Vespucci is very awaited both by the great Italian-American community living in New York and not only by the Americans themselves because of the relationship that historically binds Vespucci – and Italy – to the United States: the Ship School of the Navy bears the name of Amerigo Vespucci, the famous navigator and explorer of Florence who first realized that the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus were part of a continent.
The meeting between Nave Vespucci and the USS Independence aircraft carrier unit in 1962 in the Mediterranean Sea has become famous. «Who are you?», he replied «Nave scuola Amerigo Vespucci, Marina Militare italiana», obtaining in return: «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 greeting confirmed that fame: «You are still, after 60 years, the most beautiful ship in the world».
In New York at the end of the Nave Vespucci parade will be moored at Pier 86 where the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is located and will be open to the public for visits on board.
To visit Nave Amerigo Vespucci in Baltimore, New York and Boston there are no reservations required, in accordance with the organizational rules of Sail250, just show up directly on the spot. Access will be allowed on the basis of the maximum capacity of the ship and according to the organizational arrangements provided for each port. All visitor information is available on www.tourvespucci.it and on the official sites of Sail250Maryland, Sail4th240 and SailBoston.
After the New York celebrations Nave Vespucci will take a course to Boston where from 11 to 16 July he will take part in Sail Boston and then continue for Canada where he will be the protagonist of the Rendez‐vous naval de Québec, a prestigious international gathering of ships hosted by the port of Québec City from 23 to 26 July 2026 and to follow from 29 July to 3 August, before a new ocean crossing, will stop in Montreal.
On his return to Italy Nave Amerigo Vespucci will stop in Cagliari, in Taranto, in Venice on the occasion of the fifteenth edition of the Trans-Regional Seapower Symposium (T-RSS). The last stop will be in Trieste, on the occasion of the Barcolana, the most participated sailing race in the world with over 2000 boats held every year in the Gulf of Trieste (the 58th edition will be held on Sunday, October 11, 2026) and the arrival of the Marina Militare Nastro Rosa Veloce, the longest regatta of the Mediterranean, for the first time in Trieste.
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