The Italian ambassador to China, Massimo Ambrosetti, spent the whole day in Macerata last Saturday at the invitation of the Father Matteo Ricci International Foundation. The aim of his visit was to get to know the reality of the Macerata area up close and to identify the projects on which to collaborate to increase Italy-China relations in the spirit and in the footsteps of the religious man born in the Marche region in 1552 and who died in Beijing in 1610.
Ambrosetti was welcomed by the Foundation's president, Dario Grandoni, and members of the institution's board of directors, and received a greeting from bishop Monsignor Nazzareno Marconi, who gave him the recently written book on the life of Father Matteo Ricci.
Also present at the meeting were the Mayor of Macerata Sandro Parcaroli, the Councillor for Culture Katiuscia Cassetta and the Quaestor's delegate Patrizia Perone. During the meeting, Ambrosetti emphasised the importance that the Chinese attach to Italy and its culture compared to all other countries because Matteo Ricci's life in China has left an indelible mark on the nation's memory.
The ambassador had words of appreciation for the Foundation's projects, confirming the support of the Italian embassy in China for all future initiatives in the cultural, historical and tourist fields. He visited the House of Matteo Ricci, in Ferrari alley, where he was given a preview of the project to enhance the site, which will be a focal point for many Chinese who ask to visit the birthplace of the Macerata missionary.
Ambrosetti, before attending the performance of "Turandot" at the Sferisterio, first in the Gran Sala Cesanelli and then in the gallery of the Arena, met the association's superintendent Flavio Cavalli, Atim's acting director Stefania Bussoletti, the rector of the Marche Polytechnic University Gian Luca Gregori, the head of the Marche Region's Cultural Heritage and Activities sector Daniela Tisi, several entrepreneurs and representatives of the Macerata Opera Festival's various sponsors.
On the occasion, Ambrosetti invited the municipal administration and the Sferisterio Association's top management to a closer and more fruitful cooperation with the embassy for the promotion of the Macerata territory's excellences, especially in the cultural and educational fields, also in view of the forthcoming visit of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella to China, after that of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
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