“There are only about two hundred votes left to be the first “FAI Place of the Heart” in Friuli Venezia Giulia Region of Italy.
This hoped-for result would allow patrons to be involved in the renovation of the building that has never been finished. All citizens (especially students) are invited to share and consider voting for the Memorial by April 10, when the FAI Census expires” is the appeal of Prof. Julius Fabbri IV3CCT (pic aside).
FAI (https://fondoambiente.it/il-fai/mission/) is a non-profit foundation established in 1975, using the National Trust as a model, with the aim of protecting and enhancing Italy’s historical, artistic and landscape heritage.
Now, the request addressed to the Antarctic chasers, followers & lovers is to vote for it!
Just go to: https://fondoambiente.it/luoghi/mavi-memoriale-dell-antartide-valle-italia-cepparo-bove?ldc and click on Vote with 1 click, that’s it!
The initiative promoted by Prof. Julius Fabbri IV3CCT (aka II3BOVE WAP-271), wants to be a stimulus to the delegation that the next 23 Jun – 3 Jul 2025, in Milan, Italy, will join the 47th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting and the 27th Meeting of the Committee for Environmental Protection and discuss/approve the proposal of turning what remains of the Giacomo Bove Base into a Historic site in Antarctica (HSM). (The pic aside, shows Giacomo Bove Base at the time of its construcion-1976)
The National Memorial of Antarctica (MnA) hosts 9 flags: Argentina, Chile and England claiming territorial sovereignty. USA; Poland; Ecuador; Peru and Brazil for the Antarctic Specially Managed Area n.1 and Italy. Despite its international importance, it is abandoned, but your vote will revive it. The MnA was created by students together with their teacher of natural sciences in the high school at Cervignano del Friuli (UD) Italy, with the aim of being the starting point for designating what remains of the Giacomo Bove base in Antarctica, as Historic Site or Monument (HSM).
Inaugurated in 2018, the MnA is a scale 1:1 remote reconstruction (ex situ conservation) of the ruins of the first Italian Scientific Base built in 1976 by Cav. Renato Cèpparo in Valle Italia on the Antarctic Peninsula (a strategic location of naturalistic value) and named after Giacomo Bove an Italian explorer.
Inside the Memorial, located in the garden of the Malignani high school, there is an olive tree, a symbol of peace. The MnA was created thanks to the generous donation of stones by the entrepreneur Ermes Godeassi of Strassoldo-Italy. The exhibition panel was offered by CrediFriuli. Sponsors are: Giacomo Bove and Maranzana Cultural Association (AT); MIC Ministry; UNESCO Club of Udine, FAI of Trieste, Italian Geographic Society; CAI; CONI; Alpini (ANA), Sailors (ANMI); Civil Protection, Radio Amateurs (ARI); Municipality of Cervignano del Friuli (UD).
Objectives:
1) To sensitize diplomats to nominate it as historical site in Antarctica (HSM)
2) To transmit the values of the FAI to young people
3) To reach 2501 votes to participate in the competition and recover the Memorial.
The MnA was presented in Switzerland at POLAR18 in Davos and at the Archaeological Museum of Naples as part of a national UNESCO competition which it won. Two (scale 1:50) models of the Giacomo Bove Base and the Memorial, are also hosted by a in Ushuaia Museum.
TNX Prof. PHd Julius Fabbri IV3CCT_II3BOVE