SAN FRANCISCO - Even before the year 2012 had drawn to a close, the Consul General of Italy in San Francisco, the Honorable Mauro Battocchi, teamed up with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, to announce the beginning of "2013 Year of Italian Culture" in the United States, and specifically in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The announcement was made in grand style at a press conference held at San Francisco's City Hall on December 12th. The Consul General and Mayor were flanked by current and former Italian legislators, while the leaders of the various organizations from the Italian Community posed on the grand staircase in City Hall in a show of solidarity.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano