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Ceremony
Rome, Chamber of Deputies, Gruppi Parlamentari Hall, October 6, 2016.
The Award
The Italy-USA Foundation promoted at the Italian Parliament the new edition of the America Award; it is a prestigious recognition of great civil and institutional work. The award is mainly seen as a means to acknowledge and encourage initiatives and work aimed at favoring relationships between Europe and the United States of America. Clearly famous, eminent figures that have distinguished themselves in their work and have achieved the utmost excellence in their respective fields of interested and activities, and important results in favor of transatlantic friendship, will be considered. The 2016 ceremony was held in Rome at the Chamber of Deputies, on Thursday October 6, at 5 PM, with the journalist Attilio Romita. The Italy-USA Foundation, in the frame of the America Award, also conferred three medals of the Italian Parliament to the American students Shelby Leigh Bradley, Gillian Rose McMurray, Emelia Trop, and a special award in memory of Antonin Scalia, associate justice of the US Supreme Court.
Winners
Alessandro Benetton, president 21 Investimenti
Marco Bianchi, Fondazione Umberto Veronesi
Arrigo Cipriani, Harry’s Bar
Christian De Sica, actor
Dario Franceschini, minister of Culture
Giovanni Malagò, president CONI
Tony Renis, songwriter, music producer
Ronald Spogli, former US ambassador to Italy
Beatrice Trussardi, president Fondazione Nicola Trussardi
Alessio Vinci, journalist

ABOUT US
The Italy USA Foundation is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan institution established to bear witness to the friendship between Italians and the American people.
CONTACT
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00187 Roma, Italia
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