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2012 with Amerigo, naming the future

Amerigo Vespucci“The year 2012 will be the year of Amerigo. The symbol of this event will have its slogan in Naming the Future,” saied the mayor Matteo Renzi, in his presentation on the traditional Christmas greetings to the city in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio.

”Vespucci – said Renzi – was the man who has discovered that there were the United States, but it was the first to have had knowledge that a new land and gave it its name. Even for us should be important to name the challenges that lie ahead. 2012 could be the year when, in the name of a great Florentine, each of us tries to live every day with curiosity, with pride, but especially with the opening in the knowledge of those who think that giving a name to future is a great chance to Florence.”

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