Opens its doors in Bagheria, on Aguglia Street, the Giorgio and Giovanni S. Santangelo Library
and Archives “Ignazio Buttitta”
Saturday, March 16 at 11 a.m.
The Buttitta Foundation will also have its own headquarters in Bagheria. It will be inaugurated Saturday, March 16, at 11 a.m. on the premises of Via Aguglia No. 2, the new headquarters of the Giorgio and Giovanni S. Santangelo Library and Archives “Ignazio Buttitta.”
The opening of the premises will be attended by the mayor of Bagheria, Filippo Maria Tripoli, Culture Councillor Daniele Vella, Foundation President Ignazio E. Buttitta, Professor Emanuele Buttitta and Dr. Nara Bernardi of the Friends of Ignazio Buttitta Association.
<<Our headquarters in Bagheria is proposed not only as a place of preservation of a precious book heritage – says President Ignazio E. Buttitta – but also and above all as a center of study and research, as a space for meeting and dialogue between men and cultures according to that spirit of openness for the other and dialogical confrontation that characterized the lives of Ignazio Buttitta and Giovanni Santangelo>>.
<<After the reopening of the Putìa – says Mayor Tripoli – keeping the spotlight always on such a high cultural figure in our city is a source of great pride for us>>.
<<We are pleased to host, finally, the Buttitta Foundation also in Bagheria, in municipal premises – says Councillor Vella – It will be a forge of culture and meetings being able to count on professionalism of the Buttitta family of high cultural and human depth>>.
Admission is free while seats last.
