There is a time when New York stops to watch the sea. It happened on July 4, when along the Hudson River one of the largest fleets of sailing ships ever gathered to celebrate the two hundred and fifty years of U.S. independence. In the midst of over fifty great sailing ships and naval units of the marines all over the world, to capture the looks there was Nave Amerigo Vespucci, the Nave school of the Italian Navy, known as the most beautiful ship in the world.

The parade, the Sail4th 250, took the Hudson from the Verrazzano Bridge to the George Washington Bridge, passing in front of the Statue of Liberty, in a show that united the sea, the sky and the city. For Vespucci it was the ninth visit to New York, a link with the city that lasts since 1933, when the ship first arrived at the end of its first Atlantic crossing.

The parade on the Hudson is one of the most significant moments of the new chapter of the Amerigo Vespucci World Tour – Campaign in North America 2026, starting from Genoa on 9 May. With this journey the Nave School of the Navy continues to bring in the world beauty, identity, dialogue between peoples and culture of Italy and Italians.

Announced by the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, the World Tour Amerigo Vespucci – Campaign in North America 2026 is an initiative of the Ministry of Defense and the Navy, produced by Defense Services, and is part of the official program of celebrations for the two hundred and fifty years of American independence. An occasion in which Italy presented itself in New York with its most elegant symbol, in a dialogue between two countries that rooted in history, starting from the very name of the Ship, that of the Florentine navigator Amerigo Vespucci, from which America takes its name.

To tell the ship was his commander, the Captain of Vascello Nicasio Falica, who explained what it means to lead a crew of about two hundred and forty people, who in summer arrives to four hundred with the students of the Naval Academy. “It is a ship where the team spirit, the ability to work together, is really one of the values on which we reward”, he said. «As commander I feel a part of the crew. It is a ship that without the crew does not sail”.

Launched in Castellammare di Stabia on February 22, 1931, the ship has the same task for ninety-five years, the formation of military personnel, starting with the students of the Naval Academy. “Every student of the Naval Academy, therefore every officer of Marina, received his baptism of the sea here”, Falica told, recalling his, in 1998. The other task, he explained, is naval diplomacy: “We can say that it is a real floating embassy, itinerant, that brings dialogue and international cooperation everywhere”.

It is precisely in the United States that in 1962 was born the title that accompanies Vespucci. «The USS Independence, an American carrier, meets this black and white ship in veiled, does not recognize it and asks: who are you?», the commander recalled. «The answer was: ship school Amerigo Vespucci. And the counterpart, communicating to light flashes, said, “You are the most beautiful ship in the world. This is what the Americans have told us, and we are proud.”.

On the link between tradition and innovation, Falica explained that the two things go hand in hand. The ship has satellite communication systems and electronic navigation, but does not give up habits of always. “We follow the navigation with GPS, but when we are in Atlantic, away from the coasts, at sunset the students still make astronomical observations,” he told. “They recognize the stars, measure their height and, with astronomical calculations, determine the point where the ship is located”.

Of the campaign just begun, the commander remembered two moments on all. The ocean crossing, twenty-nine days and four thousand miles travelled looking for the winds of the Aliseans as the navigators of the past, and the parade on the Hudson. “The passage under the Statue of Liberty, for us, represents the symbol of a very important value to defend, that is freedom,” he said. “It is also the symbol of the United States, a country that we have come to honor.”.

In the end, for Falica, the sense of everything lies in a word. “Nave scuola means transmitting skills, responsibility, passion for what we do,” he said. If the Vespucci arrived to ninety-five years, when the average life of a ship is thirty or forty years, it is the merit of the crew. “For me he is a single crew since 1931. People have changed, but the soul and spirit take care of it every day. He who lives here because he is in love, because he has passion for this ship and for what he represents».

After the parade, Nave Amerigo Vespucci was moored at Pier 86, next to the Intrepid Museum, for a series of institutional and cultural events, before returning the sea to the next stages of his journey.

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Two symbols of Italy in the world, one above the other. The most beautiful ship in the world and the Italian wine met on 5 July in New York, when on board Nave Amerigo Vespucci, moored at Pier 86, Veronafiere, Vinitaly and the Italian Trade Agency presented the first New York edition of Vinitaly. USA, scheduled on 26 and 27 October. A meeting that has joined the Navy School Ship, in the city for the celebrations of the two hundred and fifty years of American independence, and the most important Italian wine fair in the United States.

“The Vespucci as Made in Italy in the world and wine as a great art of Italian excellence, two ambassadors in comparison”, said Federico Bricolo, president of Veronafiere, who presented the event on the occasion of the arrival of the Ship in New York. “It is a Italy, the best Italy possible, the one that travels, that creates new relationships and that in the end helps us also that we do promotion activities to better promote the Made in Italy in the world”.

Bricolo told the next edition, the third of Vinitaly. USA and the first in New York. It will not only be a classic fair, he explained, but a hub of Italian wine, with formative moments, wine talk, comparisons with the operators of the field, Vinitaly International Academy and an area dedicated to wine tourism, in partnership with the Ministry of Tourism.

On the American market and the impact of duties, the president of Veronafiere did not hide the difficulties, but claimed the Italian wine estate. “The American market remains and will remain for a long time the most important market, of reference for Made in Italy and for the world of wine”, he said. “The rates have created problems, as well as a very strong euro, and have contributed to a moment of tension of sales, not only of Italian wine but of all producing countries. At this time of difficulty, however, Italy has managed to give better results of other countries, and there are denominations that are also growing”.

The force, Bricolo explained, is in the determination of the producers and in the Italian ability to innovate. “There is the great desire and great determination of Italian producers, who believe a lot in this market,” he said, recalling how the adesions at the fair were already close to the whole exhausted. “Unlike perhaps other countries, Italy knows how to innovate and knows what are the right products to present to a changing market”.

To close, we asked him which wine would choose Vespucci to celebrate a moment like this. “To celebrate, we need a sparkling wine, an Italian bubble, there are many, an excellence”, Bricolo replied, indicating in Italian Prosecco and bubbles the right toast for a similar occasion.

Erica Di Giovancarlo, director of the Italian Trade Agency in New York, also attended the event, which brought greetings from ICE President Matteo Zoppas, absent. “It is an honor to participate in the World Tour Amerigo Vespucci 2026, and it is exciting to be on this ship, the most beautiful ship in the world,” he said, recounting having seen the boats arriving in New York from Governors Island. Giovancarlo recalled the recent Summer Fancy Food Show, where Italy once again had the largest pavilion, and connected wine to the recognition of Italian cuisine as an intangible heritage of UNESCO. “There cannot be Italian cuisine without Italian wine”, he observed, announcing that at Vinitaly. USA will host its own pavilion dedicated to Italian wineries and will welcome major American buyers.

Stevie Kim, from Vinitaly International Academy, who illustrated the program of the event, articulated between the exhibition, the academy that forms Italian wine ambassadors and the wine2wine forum, this year dedicated to the theme of training as an instrument of influence on the market. One way, he explained, to put to the center the professionals who translate Italian wine to the world, from sommeliers to importers, to journalists and creators of content.

After the presentation, as from the tradition of every wine event, guests were able to taste on board a taste of the great Italian wine variety, with the mosaic of native vines that remain the distinctive trait of Italy in the world.

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There is a moment, on the evening of 5 July, in which on board Nave Amerigo Vespucci two stories long more than a century have been found close. On the one hand the most beautiful ship in the world, the Navy School Ship in the city for the two hundred and fifty years of American independence. On the other hand the trophy of the America’s Cup, the oldest international sports trophy still disputed, arrived from New Zealand and returned to New York, where everything had begun.

The event “Vespucci & America’s Cup: the two icons of the sea meet in New York”, part of the Amerigo Vespucci World Tour – Campaign in North America 2026, brought together sports, institutions and the Marina, in the presence of the Minister for Sport and the Young Andrea Abodi, of the State Secretary for Defense Matteo Perego of Cremnago, of the Chief of State Admiral of the Navy, Giuseppe.

To welcome was the commander of Vespucci, Captain of Vascello Nicasio Falica. “An exciting and long-awaited moment”, he said, recalling the honor for the school ship to welcome under their eyes the oldest trophy in the world of sailing. “A world full of values that the Navy and the defense promote and that Nave Vespucci embodies”, added, listing determination, team spirit, passion and respect for the sea, loyalty and healthy competition. Values that the ship has brought through the Atlantic, twenty-nine days of sailing almost entirely, looking south towards the circulation of the aliseans.

The meeting between the two icons was Marzio Perrelli, CEO of America’s Cup Partnership. “It is a privilege to be on board the Amerigo Vespucci, in the heart of New York, where a hundred and seventy-five years ago the history of the America’s Cup was born,” he said. “There could not be a better place, a better icon to bring together two legends, the most beautiful ship in the world with the oldest sports trophy in the world”. Perrelli retraced the trophy, when in 1851 America crossed the Atlantic and, against every pronostic, challenged and beat thirteen boats around the Isle of Wight, bringing back the cup then donated to the New York Yacht Club. From there the name, America Cup. “The future is of those who have the courage to take the wide, to go looking for the wind, to face the sea”, he said, giving appointment to the Gulf of Naples, where next year seven crews will compete to take home the cup.

Marco Mezzaroma, president of Sport and Health, explained what it means to host the America’s Cup in Italy. “It is always nice to come to New York, but it is even more beautiful to trample Italian soil, as we are doing right now on Vespucci,” he said. The competition, he remembered, will be held in Naples, and has already brought a transformation of the territory of Bagnoli, object of a great work of environmental and urban requalification. “It will be an event that will have a huge relapse, in economic terms but also social”, he explained, emphasizing that Italy, when it works seriously, can set aside political rivalries and collaborate among institutions.

Luca Andreoli, CEO of Defence Services, the company that produces the World Tour has been involved in the deepest sense of the project. Vespucci, explained, has added over the years a new skin to that of extraordinary ship and instrument of naval diplomacy, becoming a great container through which to promote the excellences of the Country. «Vespucci has accustomed us to set up initiatives that seem impossible, and that then not only are realized, but become extraordinary moments of sharing», he said, recalling the intuition from which the Tour, that of the defense minister Guido Crosetto was born. “We have a new extraordinary ambassador who will be able to tell the best of Italy in the coming years”.

To bring the voice of the Navy was Admiral Giuseppe Berutti Bergotto, Chief of Staff. “This pause has a special meaning,” he said, because it unites the celebrations for American independence and the Amerigo Vespucci 2026 World Tour, witness of the ability of Italy to present itself united in the world through culture, diplomacy and the economy of the sea. The admiral recalled a value that unites the ship and the cup, the team spirit. “Aboard a ship is the crew that does the mission, it is not the ship,” he said. “Even if we are not all champions, we must row towards the same direction.” And he announced that next year the Vespucci will be present in Naples, to accompany the America’s Cup.

The ancient link between the ship and the United States was at the heart of the words of the State Secretary of Defense, Matteo Perego of Cremnago. “Being on board the Vespucci Ship in New York makes me think of the thousands of Italians who arrived with a ship on these ports and built the history of this nation”, he said, recalling that seventeen million Americans have Italian origins. “Who knows how America would be called if there had not been Amerigo Vespucci”. The sea, he added, unites the two shores of the Atlantic in a historical phase in which the ties must be strengthened. “We bring here in America a piece of Italy today”.

The conclusions were entrusted to Andrea Abodi, Minister for Sport and Youth, who chose to start precisely from the meaning of the two hundred and fifty years that were celebrated. “We are here for a witness of friendship, for an act of love, respect and honor towards this wonderful ship,” he said. Then he focused on the three principles written in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, the right to freedom and the search for happiness. “I think that going by sea, both with Vespucci and the America’s Cup, and a little bit all this,” he observed. “The right to life, the right to freedom that the sea represents, the search for happiness that the sea is representing.”.

Abodi spoke of the America’s Cup as an event made up of feelings before even numbers, an occasion where, as in the Olympics, Italy is at the center of the world and hosts the world. He recalled the approach, with the stages of Cagliari and Nisida, and the true sporting challenge, that of next year in Naples, where Italy will defend with Luna Rossa the victory won in Barcelona. And it closed with the image that is most close to him, that of Bagnoli. “It is the beautiful sleeping that we are awakening, a wonderful piece of Naples, neglected and abandoned, that thanks to this appointment, in a few months regarding thirty years of waiting, will resume life”.

Under the feet the most beautiful ship in the world, in front of the eyes the oldest trophy of the sail, and around an Italy that is told through the sea. For one evening, in New York, sport, history and sense of belonging have been given an appointment on board the Vespucci, with the look already facing the Gulf of Naples.

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Nave Amerigo Vespucci arrived in New York, as foreseen by the World Tour and Campaign program in North America, and on the day when the port of the Big Apple and the Hudson become one of the stages of celebrations for the 250 years of independence of the United States. The Navy’s school ship is one of the units involved in Sail4th250, the program that brings together large ships, military ships and air vehicles in a naval review built around 4 July. Vespucci will travel to Pier 86, in the area of the Intrepid Museum, and will depart on July 8.

It is the ninth time that the Navy’s school ship arrives in the city: the first was in 1933, at the end of its first ocean crossing, then the return of 1951, after the war, and more recently the stages of 2000 and 2017. In the middle there is also the most significant precedent, that of 1976, when Vespucci participated in the celebrations of the Bicentenary of the United States. Fifty years later, Hudson and New York Port returned to the same scenario for the 250 years of American independence. The link with the United States has often been told through a phrase almost inseparable from the ship, that of the carrier USS Independence that in 1962 saluted it as “the most beautiful ship in the world”.

After the parade the ship will be visited: public visits are scheduled on 5 and 6 July from 12 to 17.30, and on 7 July from 12 to 14.30, with mandatory reservation through the system of the Intrepid Museum. Access is free, but the number of places is limited.

In the following days the bridge of the ship will be used also for Italian institutional appointments. Sunday 5 July Veronafiere, Vinitaly and ITA will present Vinitaly. USA, that is the attempt to strengthen in the United States a story of Italian wine that not only passes from the great brands already known, but also from the territories and productions less known to the American public. The same evening the trophy of the America’s Cup will be on board, also because the next edition of the competition will be held in Naples in 2027, with the Match scheduled from July 10.

The program will continue on Monday with a meeting of the Fondazione Francesca Rava and with an appointment promoted by the Municipality of Genoa, which will use the stage to present itself to tour operators and specialized press. On Tuesday, July 7, the ship will enter a more directly diplomatic context, with an event linked to the fifth United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit, dedicated to the protection of cultural heritage in peace operations. The Italian Representation at the UN announced the streaming link from the Amerigo Vespucci for the meeting on security, criminal threats and protection of cultural goods.

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Nave Amerigo Vespucci will be visited in New York for three days, during his stop at Pier 86, in the Hudson River Park area, next to the Intrepid Museum. Visits on board are scheduled on Sunday 5 and Monday 6 July from 12 to 17.30, with last entrance at 17, and Tuesday 7 July from 12 to 14.30, with last entrance at 14. Access is free, but not free: you must register in advance through the portal indicated on the official website of the Tour Vespucci, which refers to the reservation system of the Intrepid Museum. The seats are limited and the same organization states that the reservation does not automatically guarantee access, because security checks, queues and capacity limits remain possible on the pier.

The presence of Vespucci in New York is part of the Sail4th 250 program, one of the initiatives organized for the 250th anniversary of the United States. From 4 to 8 July the port of New York and New Jersey will host dozens of great sailing ships and military ships from different countries, with public events, on-board visits and a great parade on the Hudson. The Vespucci will be moored in one of the most important points of the New York waterfront, Pier 86, the same of the museum from the carrier Intrepid: in those days that stretch of Manhattan will become one of the main places of the naval celebration, and the Vespucci will play a leading role.

The Marina Militare school ship was launched in 1931 in Castellammare di Stabia and is still used today for the formation of official students. It is 101 meters long, has three trees, over 2,600 square meters of sails and an ordinary crew of 264 soldiers, which during the training campaigns increases with the students of the Naval Academy. Visits to New York will not be guided, but the public can follow a route on board and talk to the crew members.

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On July 7, the Amerigo Vespucci school ship docked in New York will host the Italian Permanent Mission to the UN for a meeting on the protection of cultural heritage in peacekeeping operations, organized in the margin of the fifth United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit, the summit that brings together police leaders, ministers and institutional representatives to discuss the role of police in UN missions. The program also includes UNESCO, INTERPOL, UNODC, UNOCT, UNICRI, the Department for Peace Operations and Carabinieri.

In war, armies, infrastructure and civilians are not affected. Religious places, archives, archaeological sites, libraries and monuments are often destroyed, often also to directly affect the memory of a community. When a armed group knocks down a mausoleum or plunders a museum is not only doing cultural damage: it can try to erase a story, intimidate a population or finance its activities by selling objects on the illegal market. In 2017 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2347 on the destruction and trafficking of cultural heritage by terrorist groups in armed conflict contexts.

The case that has changed a lot the way he talks about it is Mali. In 2012, during the jihadist occupation of Timbuktu, mausoleums and religious places enrolled in the UNESCO World Heritage Site were attacked. In 2016 the International Criminal Court condemned Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi for the crime of war linked to the attack against ten historical and religious monuments: it was one of the first cases in which the destruction of the heritage was treated as an international criminal matter and not as simple collateral damage. The UN mission in Mali, MINUSMA, was the first major example of peacekeeping operation with explicit tasks related to the protection of cultural and historical sites.

The Vespucci will then insist on mandates, traceability, databases, police cooperation, staff training. It will also try to understand how to save a cultural site during a peacekeeping mission that does not have to do exclusively that, because the priorities are already so many and often lack resources, security and reliable information. It means knowing when a plunder is only a theft and when it is part of a precise criminal design; it also means having inventories and photographs before objects disappear; it means making soldiers, cops, customs, magistrates and cultural institutions speak without waiting for the crisis to be over.

Italy brings to this discussion a special experience, not only because it has 61 sites listed in the UNESCO World Heritage List, more than any other state, but because in 1969 it established the specialized department of Carabinieri for the protection of cultural heritage. The Italian data bank of illicitly subtracted cultural assets has over 7.2 million objects catalogued and more than 1.1 million images. And this tells how Italy has very developed tools, but also a huge problem to manage.

The international part passes mainly from INTERPOL. Its database on stolen works of art contains almost 57 thousand objects and is built on certified information provided by the competent authorities; the ID-Art app allows police, customs, collectors and market operators to verify more easily if a good is stolen. UNESCO is also working on a virtual museum of subtracted objects, designed to make visible what often disappears between property passes, borders and private collections.

You can follow the meeting through the appropriate streaming link.

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Nave Amerigo Vespucci is preparing to arrive in New York on the late evening of today, 2 July. Here it will remain until July 7, and while there will be the celebrations of the 250 years of American independence, but also several meetings and events related to the promotion of Made in Italy and relations with the United States.

After the New York stop, Nave Amerigo Vespucci will continue his North American journey in the wake of the great sailing and naval gatherings. The campaign, starting from Genoa on 9 May, will last 156 days: over 12 thousand nautical miles, 13 overall stops and 8 foreign ports before returning to Italy.

The first stage after New York will be Boston, where Vespucci will take part in Sail Boston, scheduled from 11 to 16 July. The event is part of the Sail250 circuit, the gathering of great ships and military ships organized for the 250th anniversary of the United States. The fleet will touch New Orleans, Norfolk, Baltimore and New York before closing the route to Boston, where ships from more than 25 countries are expected. For the 2026 edition there are approximately 60 ships and up to 4 million visitors along the waterfront; the last edition comparable, in 2017, had an estimated economic impact in approximately 180 million dollars. The Vespucci will be one of the international sailing ships present in the port: on the site of Sail Boston is indicated as “full-rigged ship” and assigned to the Seaport Pier 5.

After Boston the route will continue towards Canada: Québec City from 23 to 27 July, where the Rendez-vous naval de Québec will be held from 23 to 26 July: from 2008 Québec occasionally hosts this gathering to show the public Canadian and international ships. The port of Quebec City also has a special value because it is located on the San Lorenzo, the great river axis that connects the Atlantic within Canada and has played a central role in the country’s commercial and military history. This will be the seventh edition. Immediately after, from 29 July to 3 August, Vespucci will stop in Montreal, the last North American port before the return crossing, with Ponta Delgada and Cadiz as intermediate stages before the definitive return to Italian waters.

After the passage into the Atlantic, the ship is expected to Cagliari from 13 to 16 September and then to Taranto from 20 to 24 September. The next stage will be Venice in the days of the Trans-Regional Seapower Symposium, the two-year forum of the Navy that since 1996 brings together delegations of foreign marine, academic world, industry and research on maritime safety issues. The last stage will be Trieste, from 8 to 12 October, during the Barcolana: it is the most participated sailing race in the world with over 2000 boats held every year in the Gulf of Trieste (the 58th edition will take place on Sunday 11 October 2026). This year, Trieste will host for the first time also the Marina Militare Nastro Rosa Veloce, the longest regatta in the Mediterranean.

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New York is preparing to become the stage of great Italian excellence. On the occasion of the strategic overseas stage of the World Tour and the Campaign in North America, aboard Nave Amerigo Vespucci will take life a prestigious series of events. From Sunday 5th to Tuesday 7th July 2026, the historic sailor symbol of Made in Italy will host meetings of the highest level that will range from the promotion of Italian wine to the international security leadership, up to an exclusive conversation ideal with the oldest sports trophy in the world.

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The initiatives of Sunday 5 July: wine excellence and sea icons

The busy calendar of appointments will start on Sunday afternoon, starting at 15:00, with an important focus on the economy and agri-food culture. Veronafiere, Vinitaly and Italian Trade Agency (ITA) will officially present Vinitaly. USA. The meeting, focused on the strategic role of Italian wine in the relationship with the North American market, will bring together important Italian institutions to give space to comparison on quality, productive culture and territorial diversity, central themes of the next edition of Vinitaly. USA 2026, a reference appointment for those who want to tell and promote overseas excellence.

Then, at 18:30, will be held the evocative event entitled “Vespucci & America’s Cup: the two icons of the sea meet in New York”, which will see the prestigious participation of the Minister for Sport and Youth, Andrea Abodi. For the occasion, the trophy of the America’s Cup, considered to be the oldest international sports trophy, will be on board. Born in London in 1848 as an elegant silver jug, and became “America’s Cup” after the victory of yacht America in 1851, the trophy is today a true world icon of sailing, symbol of more than 170 years of challenges among the great yachts of the planet, innovation and passion for the sea. For the America’s Cup boarding is to meet another great protagonist of maritime history, in an ideal conversation between the ship that forms generations of officers and the trophy that has competed the sailing excellences of the world. The trophy will arrive in New York directly from New Zealand, whose team won the last edition and is the official holder of the title.

The appointments of Monday 6 July: solidarity and promotion of the territory

The day of Monday will open at 10:00 with a space dedicated to cooperation and the third sector, thanks to the conference organized by the Fondazione Francesca Rava. The meeting will be attended by Ambassador Giorgio Marrapodi, Permanent Representative of Italy at the United Nations in New York.

In the afternoon, at 17:00, the spotlight will move instead on the territorial valorization with the institutional meeting organized by the Municipality of Genoa, entirely dedicated to the presentation of the city to tour operators and specialized press of overseas. For the occasion will take place the mayor of Genoa, Silvia Salis.

The International Summit on Tuesday 7 July: diplomacy and security

The overseas stop will officially end on Tuesday. At 3:00 p.m., the ship will host a highly diplomatic and international event: the United Nations Chiefs of Police Summit. The event will be attended by the General Commander of the Carabinieri, General of Corps Salvatore Luongo, as official delegate of the Ministry of Interior.

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Nave Amerigo Vespucci, currently moored in Maryland in Baltimore for SAIL250 Maryland, will reach New York waters on Thursday 2 July.

It will be moored at the bottom off New Jersey until the morning of 4 July, the day when it will take part in the Sail4th250 – International Naval Review, the great parade on the Hudson River on the occasion of the 250-year celebrations of the independence of the United States.

Over fifty large sailing ships and naval units from all over the world will go up the river from the Verrazzano Bridge to the George Washington Bridge, passing in front of the Statue of Liberty. It will be one of the most significant moments of the new chapter of the Amerigo Vespucci World Tour – Campaign in North America 2026, started in Genoa on 9 May, with which the Nave Scuola della Marina Militare continues to bring in the world beauty, identity, dialogue between peoples and culture of Italy and Italians.

Announced by the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, the World Tour Amerigo Vespucci – Campaign in North America 2026 is an initiative of the Ministry of Defense and the Navy, produced by Defense Services S.p.A, which is part of the official program of celebrations of the 250 years of 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.

They support the project Vespucci World Tour – Campaign in North America 2026: ITA – Italian Trade Agency, Fiera di Verona-Vinitaly e Enel.

At the end of the parade, Nave Amerigo Vespucci will remain moored until Wednesday, July 8, at Pier 86 (the dock of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum) where he will be involved in a dense program of institutional commitments hosting on board some special events. In particular on board, during the World Tour Vespucci – Campaign in North America 2026, Italian excellence will be celebrated in the world with the presentation of the next edition of Vinitaly. USA and within the event “Vespucci & America’s Cup: the two icons of the sea meet in New York” will be welcomed and exposed exceptionally the trophy, coming from New Zealand, the America’s Cup, one of the most anticipated international sporting events that will be held in Italy next year, symbol of the great sailing. On board will also be an event organized by the city of Genoa, city from which last May 9 the Vespucci World Tour – Campaign in North America.

In the days of rest in New York are expected on board Nave Amerigo Vespucci: the Secretary of State for Defense Matteo Perego of Cremnago – on delegation of the Minister of Defense Guido Crosetto, the Minister for Sport and Young People Andrea Abodi, the Chief of State of the Navy Admiral Giuseppe Berutti Bergotto, the General Commander of the Carabinieri General of Corpo d’Arghi Luca Andreoli.

They will also be present: the President of Sport and Health Marco Mezzaroma, the CEO of America’s Cup Partnership Marzio Perrelli, the President of ITA – Italian Trade Agency Matteo Zoppas and the President of Veronafiere and Vinitaly Federico Bricolo.

For Nave Amerigo Vespucci it is the ninth visit to New York; the first in 1933, when it reached the city at the end of its first ocean crossing after leaving Gibraltar, followed by the second visit that was after the war in 1951; the most recent visits were in 2000 and 2017, confirming the solid link between Italy and the United States.

Starting from the very name of the ship, which bears that of Amerigo Vespucci, the famous navigator and Florentine explorer who first realized that the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus were part of a New World, a continent that in his honor was called America. It was then always the United States to consecrate Nave Amerigo Vespucci as “the most beautiful ship in the world” when, in 1962, in the Mediterranean Sea, the American carrier unit USS Independence asked “Who are you?” and received in response “Nave school Amerigo Vespucci, Italian Navy”, obtaining the famous greeting: “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 message confirmed that fame: “You are still, after 60 years, the most beautiful ship in the world.”.

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For centuries sailing ships were the means by which Europe crossed its borders. Before the steam routes and engines, they were the sailing ships to bring men, goods, armies and knowledge from one coast to the other of the Atlantic. With ships very different from each other, but all in wood and moved by the wind thanks to their sails, Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492, while Amerigo Vespucci contributed a few years later to understand that those lands were not a part of Asia, but a new continent for Europeans. This is why the story of the Ship Amerigo Vespucci School is not the simple story of a military ship: it is intertwined with a more ancient idea – and noble – of navigation, in which the sea was first ruled with the help of the wind.

The Amerigo Vespucci was born in fact from a choice that, already in the 1920s, could seem anachronistic. The Italian Navy, like all the marines of the world, was entering a new phase, where the ships depended more and more on the engines, the electrical apparatuses and an increasingly complex technology made of radar, sonar and various detectors. Despite this, when asked how to train the students of the Naval Academy of Livorno, the Staff decided that the first serious relationship of their students with the sea should still pass from a sailing ship. Because on a sailer, wind, currents, meteorology and onboard discipline are not abstract concepts, but things that are seen and subdued on their skin.

The decision arrived as it was finishing the operational life of the first Amerigo Vespucci, a motor cruiser and sail entered service in 1885 and adapted to school ship in 1893. For more than thirty years he had brought to the sea the students of the Royal Naval Academy, also in challenging campaigns through the Atlantic. In the middle of the 1920s, however, it was an old ship. In 1925, on the initiative of Admiral Joseph Syrianni, Minister of the Navy, he was decided to build two new school ships: Christopher Columbus and the Amerigo Vespucci. The project was entrusted to Francesco Rotundi, an officer of the Naval Genius, who designed two ships inspired by the vessels between the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The Vespucci, however, was not a museum copy of an ancient ship. It is a modern ship with the forms of a past era. The hull was made of steel, the plates were bolted, the engine apparatus was diesel-electric, but the appearance recalled the great war sailing ships, with the black flank crossed by two white bands from which different portholes and reminiscent of the battery bridges of the cannons. Christopher Columbus entered service in 1928. The Amerigo Vespucci was set on 12 May 1930 in the Royal Naval Shipyard of Castellammare di Stabia, launched on 22 February 1931 and delivered to the Royal Navy a few months later. On 4 July of the same year he left for the first training campaign in Northern Europe, under the command of Augustus Radicati of Marmorito, who had also been the last commander of the previous Vespucci.

Il Vespucci nel porto di Brindisi nel 1943

The name chosen for the ship refers to a story often very simplified: Amerigo Vespucci did not “discover America” in the sense that it is said in school. His role was another: after the trips beyond the Atlantic he understood, and he helped to make European scholars understand that those lands were not the eastern end of Asia, as Columbus had thought. They were a different continent. The name chosen for the ship also refers to the second part of the life of Amerigo Vespucci, less told but more useful to understand why it became a symbol of navigation. After travelling beyond the Atlantic, Vespucci returned to Seville and in 1505 he obtained the Castilian citizenship. Three years later he was appointed Piloto mayor of the Casa de Contratación, the office that in Seville controlled trade and shipments to American lands. His task changed: he was no longer just traveling, but forming the commanders, controlling the navigation tools and helping to redesign the official map of the new routes and coasts of the continent he had discovered.

Amerigo Vespucci died on 22 February 1512 and many still today credit him, as well as as as the one who discovered America as said before, even as the one who gave the name to America. But it was not his choice: in 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller proposed to call “America”, by the name of Vespucci, that newly discovered continent. And if today the most important and prestigious Italian school ship bears that name, it owes it to a man tied not only to navigation, but also to the construction of a new image of the world.

Even today the Vespucci works because it obliges those who climb on board to learn the sea. It is a 101-metre-long bompress ship, has three trees plus the bompress, 24 sails for over 2,600 square meters of sail surface and tens of kilometers of cables necessary to maneuver them. The crew consists of military with very different tasks, from navigation to machine, from health to logistics, but during the education campaigns the ship fills with pupils. It is then that complete sailing becomes really possible: they serve people on trees, people at maneuvers, clear orders, coordinated times. The training is not only about the sender or the nomenclature of the sails, but the teamwork to allow the ship to work.

The history of Vespucci is also the story of a survival. His twin, Christopher Columbus, had a very different fate: after World War II, he was ceded to the Soviet Union as compensation for war, renamed Dunay and employed in the Black Sea, before being removed in the 1960s after a fire. The Vespucci instead remained in service and continued to do what it had been built for, with interruptions due to war and extraordinary works. Over time it has been updated, restored, adapted to the new needs of the Navy, but never lose its main function.

This continuity explains why Vespucci has become something more than a school ship. He campaigned in the Mediterranean, North Europe, Atlantic, North America and South America; between 2002 and 2003 he made a circumnavigation of the globe, and between 2023 and 2025 he returned to make a long world tour. And then there is the most famous definition, “the most beautiful ship in the world”, born from a greeting attributed to the American carrier USS Independence in 1962. It is a phrase that almost everyone knows and has moved in many, but the Vespucci is not important because it is beautiful: it is important because it embodies the symbol of “Italianity” in the world, and it is an example of attachment to traditions, of craftsmanship of excellence and of refinement and elegance typically Italian.

Today this story has returned to North America with the “World Tour Vespucci – Campaign in North America 2026”, started from Genoa and also included in the celebrations for the 250 years of Independence of the United States. The “World Tour Vespucci – Campaign in North America 2026” is an initiative of the Ministry of Defense and Navy produced by Defense Services S.p.A. The project is developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Tourism, the Minister for Sport and Youth and the Minister for Disability. In this sense the Vespucci continues to do two works together: he trains the official students and, when he enters the port, becomes a form of Italian diplomacy abroad.

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