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April 26, 2011
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- Public success in Genoa for the exhibition "Raphael Rubattino" at Palazzo San Giorgio
- About 13,000 visitors visited the exhibition which will close its doors Saturday
 It is getting a well attended the exhibition "Raphael Rubattino - a Genoese ship owner and the unit 'of Italy, which the Port Authority of Genoa has promoted and set up at its headquarters in Palazzo San Giorgio from the end of November and which will end next Saturday. The final budget - announced the Port Authority - will be about 13,000 visitors.
- The exhibition was organized within the celebrations for the centenary of the Unification of Italy and in the occasion of the second centenary of the birth of Rubattino Raffaele, to know the story of human history and a great Genoese, a hero of the Risorgimento , remembered mainly for the delivery of its ships to Garibaldi for the shipment of one thousand, but in fact present in all the most significant economic and political events of the time.
- Unique characteristic of the exhibition is its novelty in the Italian scientific, dealing with issues that have never been, nor in Genoa or anywhere else, attention for dissemination to the general public. It is a unique opportunity for visitors to approach and understand the business culture of Liguria, but also the history of Italian seafaring an excursus original and unpublished.
- The exhibition, curated by Paolo Piccione, has, in addition to painting portraits and busts made, among others, Rivalta, Morelli, Troubetzkoy, Cevallos, Barabino, Dini and Civiletti, many documents, letters, photos, posters, equipment board the ships, jewelry, coins and a figurehead. The exhibition presents for the first time ever, by the Archaeological Superintendence of Tuscany, a treasure trove of jewels and gold coins that was recovered from the wreck of one of the steamers Rubattino: the Pollux, rammed and sunk in 1841 off the coast of the island after a collision with the steamer from Naples Mongibello. Sources say that this baby probably would have funded the revolutionary upheavals of the Risorgimento.
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