“The sea has an extraordinary value for Italy, a value that we have not always considered and always recognized and now we are in the phase in which we must rediscover it. So for the first time this government has equipped itself with a minister for sea policies, who is Senator Nello Musumeci, with an inter-ministerial committee where all the ministers who have direct and indirect competences on the sea sit and these ministers are creating a system, they have equipped themselves with a sea plan, which is the strategic reference document and we are now in the phase of implementation, but precisely the novelty is the fact of creating a system. I would say that the main challenge facing Italy is to follow the route of rediscovering the maritime vocation and therefore to spread awareness beyond the coastline, beyond the cities that are washed by the sea and to reach the hinterland where instead there are extraordinary energies, which are those of our entrepreneurs, who depend on the sea but are not always aware of it”. This was said by Admiral Pierpaolo Ribuffo, Head of the Department for Sea Policies, on the occasion of the awards ceremony – today at Palazzo Gambacorti in Pisa – of the third edition of the ‘Pagine d’aMare’ literary review, promoted and organized by the Minister for Civil Protection and Sea Policies, Nello Musumeci, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and, for 2026, with the Municipality of Pisa.
“It is also extremely important from a symbolic point of view that this ‘Pagine d’aMare’ event is held in Pisa, which is one of our Maritime Republics. ‘Pagine d’aMare’ is a traveling exhibition, so we have already had an edition that was held in Amalfi and another that was held in Venice, now we have Pisa, the next one will be Genoa because we want to retrace and recall in some way our history and our future”.