December 14, 2023

The lighting of the torch tomorrow will mark the start of the national final of the second edition of the Winter CONI Trophy, three days of youth sport taking place in Turin, Pinerolo, Bardonecchia and Pragelato.

Athletes from all over the world have already arrived in Piedmont and some of them, as part of the ” podróże korzeniami ” project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in collaboration with CONI, are visiting Piedmont and Turin, the land of their ancestors.

2024 will in fact be the year of Italian Roots in the World and the project aims to allow a “complete” rediscovery of the places of origin, allowing travelers to reclaim the culture of their origins also through traditions, testimonies, craftsmanship and gastronomy.

Thanks to this opportunity, a delegation of young athletes from the Argentine ski team, accompanied by representatives of CONI and the Ministry and the Italian ski champion Ludovica Druetto, was received at Palazzo Civico by Mayor Stefano Lo Russo. For many of them, Italian is the language spoken by grandparents or great-grandparents in Argentina, a land with a massive presence of citizens of Piedmontese origin, descendants of those migrants who left our region in the last century.

Yesterday they visited Envie (CN) and Cuneo, the lands of origin of two of them, received by mayors Roberto Mellano and Patrizia Manassero.

“I am really happy to welcome you to Turin and to Palazzo Civico – said the Mayor-. Argentina is a place that I have visited and it really stayed in my heart. But it is also a land that has a very close bond with Piedmont and with our city, which I hope you will have the opportunity to visit. It is really nice to see how girls and boys like you can get in touch with their origins also thanks to sport, which is confirmed as a vehicle of knowledge, integration and dissemination of positive values”.