Art honour for UNIC’s support of Pompeii project
29/11/2018
Named ‘Mecenati (Art Patrons) of the XXI Century’, the 2018 edition of the awards ceremony took place at the European Parliament in Brussels on November 28.
A scientific committee named UNIC as the winner of a special award at the event for the work it has done to support the restoration of an tannery unearthed during the excavations of the town of Pompeii, near Naples. Pompeii was buried under volcanic ash in the year 79 and the excavations have shown that making leather was part of everyday life there at that time.
A project to restore the tannery began in 2008 and has continued in stages since then, always with the support of UNIC.
UNIC director general, Fulvia Bacchi, travelled to Brussels for the award ceremony. Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano, secretary-general of the European leather industry’s representative body there, COTANCE, joined her at the event.
Later, Mr Gonzalez Quijano, said that the Pompeii project had yielded new evidence of the European leather industry’s cultural heritage. He said this legacy has now reached a high level of excellence in terms of environmental performance, social accountability and business ethics, which any observer of Europe’s leather industry can witness today.
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