{"id":1345,"date":"2014-12-15T11:10:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T09:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2014\/12\/onorificenza-attard-2\/"},"modified":"2014-12-15T11:10:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T09:10:31","slug":"onorificenza-attard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2014\/12\/onorificenza-attard-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AMBASSADOR CONFERS ITALIAN DECORATION UPON THE LATE MR. PAUL ATTARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>On 1st December 2014, the Ambassador of Italy Giovanni Umberto De Vito conferred posthumously the decoration \u2018Cavaliere dell\u2019Ordine della Stella d\u2019Italia\u2019 on late Mr. Paul Attard.<BR><BR>During a sober ceremony held at the Italian Cultural Institute, the outstanding role Mr. Paul Attard played in strengthening the collaboration between Italy and Malta was recalled. As President of the Foundation of St. John\u2019s Co-Cathedral Mr. Attard was instrumental in several bilateral projects to restore and preserve Malta\u2019s cultural heritage. His contribution to Italo-Maltese cultural relations was significant also in the restoration of the Chapel of Santa Caterina of Italy in Valletta.<BR><BR>The decoration upon Mr. Attard was received by his son, Col. David Attard, who attended the ceremony together with family relatives. <BR><BR><A href=\"\/resource\/2014\/12\/84430_f_amb61SundayTimesofMalta1.pdf\">Sunday Times of Malta<\/A><BR><BR><IMG alt=\"Ambassador confers Italian decoration upon the late Mr. Paul Attard \" src=\"\/resource\/2014\/12\/84431_f_amb61Onorificenza5.jpg\" border=\"0\"><BR><BR><IMG alt=\"Ambassador confers Italian decoration upon the late Mr. Paul Attard \" src=\"\/resource\/2014\/12\/84432_f_amb61Onorificenza6.jpg\" border=\"0\"><BR><BR><IMG alt=\"Ambassador confers Italian decoration upon the late Mr. Paul Attard \" src=\"\/resource\/2014\/12\/84433_f_amb61Onorificenza7.jpg\" border=\"0\"><BR><BR><IMG alt=\"Ambassador confers Italian decoration upon the late Mr. Paul Attard \" src=\"\/resource\/2014\/12\/84434_f_amb61Onorificenza8.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/P><P>\u00a0<BR><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On 1st December 2014, the Ambassador of Italy Giovanni Umberto De Vito conferred posthumously the decoration \u2018Cavaliere dell\u2019Ordine della Stella d\u2019Italia\u2019 on late Mr. Paul Attard.During a sober ceremony held at the Italian Cultural Institute, the outstanding role Mr. Paul Attard played in strengthening the collaboration between Italy and Malta was recalled. As President of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblavalletta.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}