together with a group of young Italians
just as smiling to explain
better the sense of these smiles there
I have to tell a story this
obviously not all of us mobile
we have this tool now always
with us
yes now, get it scared for
land
it probably breaks and too and you
this year to do to break a
cell phone probably just
it will happen in you different types of
emotions, amazement or annoyance
I would end up there so now I said a kick
to these screens
maybe the reaction would be a little different
you will probably get angry too
organizers even more because
I would create damage to something that is not
only mine but somehow belongs to
this structure is also would create a
give to the people who will follow me
yes now you are here and with a little one
nemi directed towards the tower and created
of the damage to this tower the reaction
I think it would be even stronger from
your part no as never
because this obviously they do not
it would only concern me in mine
cell phone that has a value absolutely
relative or these screens that have a
value for the university for the
community of people who are here this
it’s a value not just for all of us for
the city of Pisa for Italy
it probably has value throughout
humanity is a concept that that
dates back that it is somehow created
constituted defined a long time ago
man has always had the need to
go beyond their own limits
its borders in many ways it
he told the few some certainly
expressing itself by expressing the city
through different languages and that
clearly language that in the centuries is
state of purpose
artistic was certainly one of the
first languages that man has
we have experienced many
testimonies of many forms of art
some way an elevation that man
he tried to reach by experimenting
languages concepts of symbols and this
obviously over the centuries it has
created so much beauty given that
that we define so many beauty today
places that if someone from there and touches them
some way by us too
one of us activates within us
feeling that even if we are never
We have never been p we know
that if someone creates damage to these
places with promises this beauty
compromise the harmony of these works
of art of this heritage creates a
problem to us too
this because even of this
heritage to us very often we have
created real reserves like i
museums where we have even collected
more works more different beauty of
different creators define them as well and
we have created real times e
this is obviously true for art
visual but it is true that for many
artistic languages
think of the music we celebrate today
still today in many ways the music that
they wrote many composers
musicians and that we still live in today
some places that are places for us
important fundamental
obviously think to writing the
literature and books and then to the
transmission of knowledge
but why this is activated
very often feeling of belonging
of bonding to this beauty
we want to decide is universal only
when this beauty turns into
something else
this is the Aleppo mosque in Syria
which was absolutely destroyed
barbarity of these terrorists
and of all the conflicts obviously in
act in those in those areas this
this image hurts you hurts
for many reasons obviously because
together with this image yes
they accompany psi four so that
obviously it makes no sense to see lives
broken but that we have that happened
something when stones break down
those stones ghilini collapsed a
piece of us too
of this we have so much experience in it
many ways
unfortunately in the history of man
we think here near Florence 1966
the famous flood that flooded
below above the city more recently
the earthquake in the earthquake in nepal
that destroyed with great
violence of the gods archaeological sites
extraordinary think about events
dramatic that have hit again
of our center of Italy this summer and
that once again not only have
struck so many lives but they did
come down so many places of art places
historical or not just natural events
together with the madness of man as in
Afghanistan in 2001 when the Taliban
that is, sero completely shine one
statue of buddha other over 20 meters
more recently for so many total fools
who have taken pigeonhole works of art
in Iraq in Syria because they took
articulated
because they wanted to destroy those
millennial works probably not
they did not even know what they were hitting
from a historical point of view
artistic since they are
we absolutely know well, let’s say that
kind of men we’re talking about yet
they understood one thing and beauty
making fear frightens them
knowledge knowing the values that there
I’m behind those places that have been
stored for thousands and thousands of
years
also simply active analysis
how many we witness in Italy I come
from a city
Rome that full of how you know of
heritage of works of art
yet there is someone who likes to
scrape them because this write on
colosseum for us to see these images
in a little surprise no because no one
it never does because it’s not all smeared
the call if like many walls or not
you will remember piazza di spagna hooligans
with a little too much beer in the body that yes
they are unleashed they broke through one
bernini fountain
because every day is not it’s not
dirty that fountain but it is instead
clean and no one allows himself to
dirty it for those within each of
we have that feeling there
I was talking to a team when something happens
which alters that harmony for beauty
let’s intervene let’s intervene immediately if
let’s get up, in fact, the angels are Florence
of the mud young volunteers like you
like us who simply heard
need to go there pull out works
art from the mud save the volumes of the
florence our national library
firemen who are doing a
extraordinary work together
other law enforcement agencies in the center
Italy rescuing from the collapsed churches
works of art that are still intact
simple citizens in kathmandu who have
lost everything but felt the need
to put one brick of Sister on the other
in one of the most archaeological sites
important
obviously the professionals who with the
their capacity
they manage to restore beauty
integrity of our prevert
banally remove a written but
remove it immediately because the written one
it can not ruin that beauty of
that place people who even give
his life as the director of the
museum and of the archaeological site of palmira
in Syria abducted by members of them has
given his life so as not to say where he was
hidden some artifacts that he gave
will fly destroys and even when
things can not be rebuilt like
in part of palmira well we men
sometimes we feel the need to
reproduce beautiful things even only
on a symbolic level how it was done
with the reproduction of this arc nalco
palmira mark gone destroyed that is
It was always the turn of some big ones
European capitals
Florence to place that bow there
It means
you can also destroy another 100 arches
but values, history, traditions
ideals that are behind that kind of
of history does not destroy them rai but the
same thing in Afghanistan they decided
not to rebuild a buddha thanks to
technology projected the image
of what was the road
here these are all the principle values
promoted by a large organization
international and this is a picture
just as in mind in London 1941
42 Nazis bombed the city makes a
certain effect of a great city that
we know so well
bombed and only 75 years ago it happened
also in those years some of the gods
ministers of education in some countries
anti-fascist anti-Nazi Europeans
they felt the need to do something
they too, obviously together with the world
of politics and diplomacy
who in those years tried to give one
response to this event of course
dramatic among the most dramatic of the
history of man for the world beh them
they thought that maybe it was in the
when they should have put
in the field a common effort also from
point of view of the education of the
culture of education because
they thought they thought that big one
disruption of values, ideals
that had created so much conflict
violence hate among men
it also depended on the formation of the
men themselves of education
of education that obviously had to
somehow start going
on the same track
and what did these gentlemen create
organization together with 20 others
countries
just after the war 45 46 20 25
countries in the world including some countries that
probably we Europeans do not
we would like to intervene on a project
like this such as saudi
arabian south africa were among the first to
say we need to build one
supranational organism that promotes
global protection strategies
of the artistic heritage of growth of the
level of population formation
of science development and the preamble
of the UNESCO constitution says
some words very simple but a lot
important then says that wars
begin the minds of men and in the
minds of the men they owe
build the defenses of the UNESCO break
very often it is perceived as
a very distant organization each
as we walk we see a loghino
especially in Italy attached to
some column some site entry
archaeological
it is not an abstract logo is a structure
which promotes many programs at the level
world and is involved in the
field of culture education
of the human and social sciences of the
natural sciences and in the field of
information communication one
of the most important commitments of UNESCO
for which obviously known of
more is the commitment linked to heritage
world in 1972
unesco the nations that have joined
over the time there has been a decline of over 170
they have established to create a list
world of sites of natural places
historical archaeological cultural that of
right
they had to be recognized by
extraordinary importance is not important
only for the specific country where that
hicks site is found throughout
humanity therefore today there are beyond
1,050 two sites of which 800 are 14 sites
cultural
so we think the historical center of
Rome historic center of Florence square
of the created and 203 natural miracles
always remaining in Italy the dolomites
let me
as you can see, several of these sites are
in danger in danger what kind of
danger what we saw before
often they are sites that are in zones
of war or danger due to and
possible climatic events that can
set off as it was in nepal la
destruction of these sites
but unesco over time has understood that
he had to valorize he had to light a
lighthouse not just on
what is defined as heritage
tangible material a place but also on
what has defined a heritage
intangible
what the intangible heritage are
all that series of forms of
tradition of artistic languages but
not only of know-how that man in
centuries has developed worldwide and
so for example since 2001, UNESCO has
started to define a list precisely
of intangible assets
among these the Italians the art of
cremona violin making violins e
something that does not belong only to
cremona or only Italy is an art now
centenary who has delivered one
extraordinary instrument the violin the
family then of the arches to the whole
world through which we express ourselves
through which we create some
emotions that speak precisely everything
the human race
what is unesco in these years like this
complicated it does a lot
in reality, how well understood it is
institution that is returning to being
central at international level
this is the unesco campaign
launched two years ago globally
unit united forests for the heritage that
what does this campaign work on
more fronts to re-ignite
that emotion we remember
try only when they take a
pick a statue when one arrives
earthquake and throw down a church here
that is an emotion instead
we must cultivate daily
probably to say us Italians in
even more detail
she is the world leader in triggering
the person who coordinates in the front line
activities to unesco actions a
international level it is putting
a signature on a piece of paper 36 of
paper very important for UNESCO but
also and above all for us Italians
the signature that was put on the year
last in Rome
and on that document he took one
commitment to us Italians a beautiful commitment
I do not know if you know we Italians have one
highly specialized group
within the carabinieri for the
protection of cultural heritage
wait a moment on the carabinieri who
center nuclear assets have to do with it
a lot and have also developed one
professionalism on the excellent lens
not only do they obviously help to recover
works of art stolen or otherwise ad
avoid crime
we say applied to the art world but
they are even giving a great help
also internationally and therefore
the director general of the unesco has
said signing that document we have
we need you
Italian Italy in yours
ability to make this happen
heritage that in some parts of the world
and endangered also by the
crime of terrorism
Well help us give us a hand and have
created what has been called the
task force of the blue helmets of culture
beautiful concept and it’s good to see and
know that for example there are also
young women
she is the only young woman
michelangela stefano of the task force
which is making a huge contribution
as a woman and as a professional at
recovery of masses of art we say
in commitments
small and she is particularly active
in the central Italy area and it’s beautiful
see how we are climbing let’s say
this collaboration coming up to
security council of nations
united
one of the places and take resolutions
absolutely central decisions a
world level
well and thanks also to the general of this
task force that the United Nations
recently and March approved one
resolution that will commit again
plus all the states that adhere to them
most of the world’s actions
in the commitment to the protection of heritage
and us we young Italians who
we can do and in 2011
I was in this room that the hall
main of unesco in paris
the unesco world at the headquarters in Paris is one
very nice room where everyone sits
representatives of the countries they have
adhered to UNESCO as I said before
over 160 170 and I do not go out every year
organize a moment meeting like this
to meet the young people of these
countries
in 2011 he was the delegate in Italy
that moment I understood that there was one
opportunity an opportunity to give a
non-diplomatic contribution from
carabiniere or professional from
archaeologist contribution as john
citizen who somehow tries
this emotion of which I spoke to you before
that coming back to rome
stimulated inspired by that from those
stories from those encounters with many
other days of other countries that
I tried with the same emotion
said well maybe we can do something
us here in Italy too and so we have
created a group of UNESCO young people
that is, we have put together together
300 young people between 20 and 35 years
the young student researchers
cultural manager professors who
they dedicate part of their time to them
obviously life in formula absolutely
voluntary
to help UNESCO in Italy a
implement initiatives and
projects that help us to
promote the values we are about
speaking
among these I mention only one project
that we have achieved thanks to
support for attention to
sharing our ministry
of the education that is bringing us into
all the schools of Italy in each
region we are bringing these themes
talking about unesco by young people a
young people who are doing it here too
to the track among other things and we are meeting
thousands of young people and we are trying to
awaken in them not just one
interest but also an awareness
that very often is not there
of the importance of what is one
statue a tower a museum that is not
only a place where things are
keep or where you can not do anything
because if you do something you can not ruin
also interact with those works of art
you can also interact with those museums
this is also ours
administrations perhaps facilitate say
live participatory of those places e
so guys the message is too
very simple things can be born
in a truly spontaneous way e
get to where you need it and
so how do you see the lady who has
put the signature on something like that
important met us and us
we have given our contribution to the
ours and brass in our beautiful ours
voice to that campaign that I told you
the unified layer moving at the level
international
and this was the photo two parties yesterday
we were in paris we went to paris a
present to all other states in
that room I showed myself before
our history and the amazing thing
they told us no one had ever
no one had made a committee
young people with 300 people in unesco that
helps our Italian institutions and
international organizations to promote these gods
among young people
so what they told us is there
is helping to reduce this distance
between our house so big but
then at the end maybe sometimes not very capable
to be close by telling people to
whom we want to be close to the young
so this is the message of the
history and the motivation of those smiles
yesterday we showed that in the end
we young Italians can also give
a contribution for our country and to
international level and not there
we never forget that it depends on us
change things
thank you
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