The training ship of the Italian Navy Amerigo Vespucci, with its 143 cadets on board, arrived today in the port of Lisbon. After touching Palermo, Tunis and Algiers, the Vespucci stops for three days in Lisbon, returning to the Portuguese capital and the Atlantic Ocean, from where she had been missing since 2019 and after spending three years in the Mediterranean.
“Normally this ship associates the training function of students for the practical activities of seafaring knowledge with an important action of external relations, in which the Vespucci also functions as a floating embassy”, Commander Massimiliano Siragusa told the Ansa. This public activity, which was greatly downsized in the years of the pandemic but is very important, implies a privileged relationship with the Italian communities abroad, embassies, cultural institutes, but also provides for the embrace of the local communities of the cities via away you touch on the voyage, added the captain of the vessel.
From Lisbon, where it will remain docked on the banks of the Tagus and will be open to visitors until next Saturday, the ship will set sail for Morocco, with expected arrival in Casablanca on 6 August.
Source: Ansa
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