{"id":5015,"date":"2026-06-11T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T23:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2026-06-11T13:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:10:55","slug":"celebration-of-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-italian-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2026\/06\/celebration-of-the-80th-anniversary-of-the-italian-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"CELEBRATION OF THE 80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On<strong> 2 June 2026,<\/strong> a reception was held in Wellington, at the prestigious \u201cDominion Museum Building\u201d, to celebrate the <strong>80th anniversary of the Italian Republic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Around 350 guests attended the reception, including representatives of politics, culture, economy, business and civil society as well as from the Italian community and the Diplomatic Corps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the performance of the Italian and New Zealand national Anthems by soprano Charlotte Secker, The Ambassador of Italy in Wellington Cristiano Maggipinto, and the Deputy Secretary for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Australia Paula Wilson at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, who represented the New Zealand government emphasised the excellent state of bilateral relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reception offered guests the opportunity to take part in the celebrations in an evocative and engaging setting, further enhanced by an exclusive display of prestigious vehicles symbolizing Italian excellence: four Ferraris, three positioned outside the venue and one inside, alongside an Alfa Romeo, a Fiath Abarth, a Vespa, and a Moto Guzzi. This carefully curated selection celebrated the value of Italian engineering, design, and manufacturing tradition, hallmarks of Made in Italy that are recognized and admired around the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many thanks to: Massey University and all its leadership for hosting our National Day Reception at the prestigious and historical \u201cDominion Museum Building\u201d; to \u201cBella Italia\u201d for catering our event; to \u201cCampari\u201d for sponsoring; to \u201cFerrari Club\u201d, \u201cAlfa Romeo Club\u201d, \u201cMotorazzi\u201d and \u201cGazley motors\u201d for arranging an amazing display of vehicles celebrating Italy\u2019s creativity, style, and industrial excellence.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8Adam Gregory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 2 June 2026, a reception was held in Wellington, at the prestigious \u201cDominion Museum Building\u201d, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Italian Republic. Around 350 guests attended the reception, including representatives of politics, culture, economy, business and civil society as well as from the Italian community and the Diplomatic Corps. Following the performance [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambwellington.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}