The Amerigo Vespucci promotes Italy on worldwide and Mediterranean tours

After successfully completing an around-the-world voyage, the Italian navy's Amerigo Vespucci is present connected a circuit of its location country's main ports.

The vas near Genoa connected 1 July 2023 and returned to Italy astir 2 years later, reaching Trieste successful March.

Once it reached home, it began an 18-stage circuit that volition decorativeness connected 10 June. This travel includes stops successful Italy's largest ports arsenic good arsenic others successful Durres, Albania, and Valletta, Malta.

As with the satellite tour, the Mediterranean limb volition spot the vessel — which is named aft a celebrated explorer — beforehand an immersive accumulation called Italy Village.

Set up successful the ports that the vessel visits, the accumulation volition archer visitors astir the boat's mission, Italian civilization and the spot of the oversea arsenic a awesome of union.

The unsocial schoolhouse ship

On routes betwixt Brindisi and Reggio Calabria and betwixt Livorno and Genoa, cadets of the First Class of the Naval Academy spent clip connected the Vespucci arsenic portion of their grooming programme.

Young sailors aged betwixt 12 and 17 were besides onboard, acknowledgment to a collaboration with the Italian Sailing Federation.

Captain Giuseppe Lai personally benefitted from specified an acquisition erstwhile helium was young.

Long earlier commanding the Vespucci connected its 2nd round-the-world voyage, helium sailed connected it arsenic a student.

"At the Naval Academy, the run connected the Vespucci is done astatine the extremity of the archetypal year," helium told Euronews.

"For me, arsenic for each my classmates, it was the archetypal clip we went connected a vessel and lived beingness onboard. Going backmost determination arsenic a skipper makes you relive immoderate of the aforesaid emotions, due to the fact that it is simply a vessel that has remained crystallised successful its aesthetics, astir identical to erstwhile it was launched," the skipper said.

"Seeing the trainees connected committee contiguous made maine spell backmost successful time, and it is simply a beardown inducement to walk connected to them those lessons that each of america has absorbed successful our careers," helium added.

The Vespucci's round-the-world tour

On its satellite tour, the Vespucci travelled to 30 countries successful 20 months, with implicit 400,000 visitors coming onboard.

"A round-the-world voyage aboard the Vespucci is astir apt the astir beauteous acquisition a navy commandant tin have," Lai continued.

"In its 94-year history, the vessel has lone been circular the satellite twice. It is simply a unsocial feat, and an tremendous privilege: it allows you to observe different cultures and, astatine the aforesaid time, to marque Italy known to the world," helium said.

The ship's history

Built successful 1930 successful the Regio Cantiere Navale di Castellammare di Stabia shipyard and launched successful February 1931, the Vespucci entered work successful the Regia Marina a fewer months later.

Ever since, she has trained Italy naval officers and represented Italy successful the world.

The ship's motto, which is engraved connected the stern, is present proverbial: 'Not helium who begins but helium who perseveres'.

The Vespucci is 101-metres agelong and implicit 15-metres wide with 3 masts and 2,635-square metres of sails.

The hull is made of steel, the decks of teak and the interior of precious woods. A large modernisation was completed successful 2016, equipping it with a caller diesel-electric propulsion system. Whenever possible, however, it is inactive the upwind that propels her.

At 94-years-old, she is present the Italian navy's longest serving ship.