Ligabue has always attributed great value to culture, in all its nuances. Giancarlo Ligabue, father of the current Presidente and C.E.O. Inti, person of great commitment, curiosity and culture, is the entrepreneur who first developed the Group’s business with a strategic management vision that is both global and noble, with attention for the environment in which it operates and for people, and with respect for history and traditions aimed at harmonious and constructive integration. Those were the 1970s; today many things may have changed, but not the commitment that drives the company.
“Gain knowledge and share it” is the
formula that boosts the commitment
undertaken in these past decades: in
2000 the Ligabue Study Centre received
the Unesco award in Paris for popularising
science: 70 documentaries produced,
more than forty edited volumes
and publishing of the biannual Ligabue
Magazine, as well as scienti c and cultural
contacts and exchanges (and lending
of valuable objects) with around ten
Italian museums.
The transition from Study Centre to Foundation
took place in a series of conventions,
events, meetings and debates: in
Rovereto on 2016 during the Festival of
the Archaeological Cinema and before
this in the Florence archaeological museum,
which hosted (September 2015-
March 2016) the exhibition “The World
that Wasn’t There” with Pre-Columbian
works of art from the Ligabue collection.
The exhibition was organized by the Ligabue
Study and Research Centre and by
Ligabue SpA, with the Superintendency
of Florence.
The cultural commitment of the Ligabue
Foundation is now being strengthened,
continuing collaboration with Venice University
and with prestigious cultural centres
in the city. The Veneto Institute of
Science, Literature and Art is currently
hosting the exhibition “Before the Alphabet”
(20 January – 25 April 2017), organized
by the Giancarlo Ligabue Foundation
and exhibiting for the rst time hundreds
of nds from the Ancient Near East belonging
to the Ligabue collection: tablets,
seals, works of art dating back to the IV-III
century until the rst centuries BC: a collection
on cuneiform writing systems before
the use of the alphabet.
“The magazine for people who travel the world”. This is the motto that, since 1982, has accompanied each release of Ligabue Magazine, a publication directed at those who are curious about and interested in humankind and the planet that sustains us. In these years the magazine has undergone changes, with enhanced text, images and graphics, but it still retains its original spirit.
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