The Foundation
The Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Florence, dedicated to promoting intercultural dialogue and enhancing cultural heritage as tools for peace and understanding among peoples. For 35 years, the Foundation — established and supported by a Florentine hospitality company — has worked to transform tourist hospitality into a mission focused on fostering mutual knowledge and understanding among cultures.
It is within this context that the Life Beyond Tourism philosophy was born: promoting the vast opportunities for dialogue among cultures in areas of high cultural significance, such as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. This approach extends to all contexts where people from different cultures meet, turning every journey into a concrete opportunity for exchange, relationship-building, and shared growth. Through the Life Beyond Tourism® movement, the Foundation transforms the travel experience into an opportunity for encounter, learning, and mutual development.
Our Mission
To contribute to the development of peace worldwide by fostering encounters and understanding among people of different cultures, ethnicities, and religions. We organize international meetings, cultural activities, and educational programs that encourage exchange and collaboration among young people, academics, and professionals from around the world.
With this activity, extended today to 111 countries on 5 continents, the Foundation conceived the ethos Life Beyond Tourism, in order to offer a virtual platform for the mutual knowledge among cultures based on the fundamental elements such as: Travel, Youth, Interculturality, Cultural Heritage, Dialogue, Knowledge, Respect.
Operational plan
Mission
Contribute to the development of Peace in the WorldInstruments
Culture, science, applied research as powerful reasons for meetings, education, aggregation, understanding, particularly among the young, with Florence and Tuscany as international centres of culture and, consequently, centres of meetings among the Young.Objectives
To favor opportunities of encounters among young people belonging to different cultures and Countries in order to enable their mutual knowledge and through this mutual understanding; to contribute to the development of friendship among Peoples.Opportunities
Organization of international meetings;Support to the Florentine and Tuscan Cultural Heritage;
Contribution to education;
Promotion, development, realization of initiatives, research, education, publications, awards, scholarships, etc.
Life Beyond Tourism® contributes to the dissemination and affirmation of universal values such as respect and harmony among peoples, and transformation of touristic experience into a precious moment of knowledge and encounter for intercultural dialogue.
It enables to get to know the spirit of the place with its cultural expressions and traditional knowledge, in its past, in its present and in its future perspectives.
It has a new vision of Tourism, also the mass one, which underlines its strategic aspect rather than the consumeristic one.
Museum of Expressions of Gratitude
In the heart of Florence, along the ancient Via del Giglio, the Museum of Expressions of Gratitude of the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation is housed in Palazzo Coppini, a building that embodies centuries of urban and architectural history, from its medieval origins to the elegant renovations of the 19th century. Restored and repurposed from its original function as a lodging facility, the palace was chosen by the Foundation as the home of an international cultural center dedicated to fostering dialogue among civilizations.
The museum hosts a rich collection of over 8,000 volumes in 53 languages and 13 alphabets, along with an extraordinary array of gifts offered over time by friends and experts associated with the Foundation—expressions of their gratitude and tangible testimony to more than 35 years of activity.
Completing the exhibition are numerous awards and honors received from prestigious governmental and academic institutions around the world, with whom the Foundation collaborates in its mission to promote the enhancement of cultural heritage as a tool for dialogue and mutual understanding.
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Manifesto in three languages
DETYRA E FONDACJONIT ROMUALDO DEL BIANCO
eshte te jape kontribut per te krijuar integrim nderkombetar; Fondacjoni jone organizon
ne Firenze, takime dhe iniciativa nderkombetare nepermjet te cilave te rinj te kulturave
te vendeve te ndryshme mund te takohen dhe te njihen per te favorizuar nje njohje
reciproke e miqesi, per te dhene kontribut keshtu ne zhvillimin e paqes ne bote.
罗穆阿尔多·德·比安科的基金会宣言 通过独特的探索和研究重新发现社会价值 一．
MISIJA FONDACIJE ROMUALDO DEL BIANCO
je pridonijeti stvaranju međunarodne integracije;
naša Fondacija organizira, u Firenci, međunarodne susrete i inicijative preko kojih se mladi različitih kultura i iz različitih zemalja mogu sresti i upoznati da bi pospješili uzajamna poznanstava i prijateljstva, i time pridonijeli razvoju mira u svijetu.
POSLÁNÍ NADACE ROMUALDO DEL BIANCO
je přispívat k rozvoji mezinárodní integrace.
Naše nadace pořádá ve Florencii mezinárodní setkání a další iniciativy, při nichž se mohou seznámit mladí lidé z různých zemí a kultur.
Chceme tak napomoci jejich vzájemnému poznání a přátelství a tak svým způsobem přispět k upevnění míru ve světě.
LA MISSION DE LA FONDATION ROMUALDO DEL BIANCO
Il s’agit de crèer une contribution à l’intègration internationale; notre fondation organnise à Florence des rencontres et des initiatives internationales à travers lesquelles les jeunes de cutures et pays divers puissent se rencontrer et se connaitre afin de favoriser la rèciprocitè des connaissances et des amitiè, ceci contriburaient au devellopement de la paix dans le monde.
AZ ALAPÍTVÁNY CÉLJA,MISSZIÓJA
Hozzájárulni a nemzetközi integráció megteremtéséhez. Alapítványunk ezért olyan találkozókat szervez Firenzében, illetve hasonló események szervezését kezdeményezi külföldön is, amelyeken különbözõ kulturájú fiatalok találkozhatnak, megismerhetik egymást, kölcsönös ismeretségeket és barátságokat alakíthatnak ki, ezáltal hozzájárulva a világbéke megteremtéséhez.
LA MISSIONE DELLA FONDAZIONE ROMUALDO DEL BIANCO
è contribuire a creare integrazione internazionale;
la nostra Fondazione organizza, in Firenze, incontri ed iniziative internazionali attraverso i quali giovani di culture e paesi diversi possono incontrarsi e conoscersi
per favorire una reciproca conoscenza e amicizia, quindi per contribuire allo sviluppo della pace nel mondo.
ロムアルド・デルビアンコ財団宣言文 – 公共性の価値と特殊研究機関におけるその発見
IEVADS ROMUALDO DEL BIANCO FONDA MISIJA
ir veicināt starptautisko integrāciju.
Fonds organizē Florencē starptautiskās sanāksmes un aktivitātes priekš jauniešiem,
kuru laikā personas no dažādām valstīm un kultūrām var satikties, iepazīties un labāk saprast viens otru, tādā veidā arī veicinot starptautiskās zināšanas un sadraudzību, un, tātad, veicinot mieru šajā pasaulē..
POSŁANNICTWO FUNDACJI ROMUALDO DEL BIANCO
MISIUNEA FUNDAŢIEIROMUALDO DEL BIANCO
este de a contribui la realizarea integrării internaţionale.
Fundaţia noastră organizează la Florenţa întâlniri şi activitǎţi cu caracter internaţional, prin intermediul cărora tineri din ţări şi de culturi diverse se pot cunoaşte şi împrieteni, prietenia şi cunoaşterea reciprocă contribuind la dezvoltarea păcii în lume.
ЗАДАЧИ ФОНДАРОМУАЛЬДО ДЕЛЬ БЬЯНКО
Главной целью деятельности Фонда является создание международной интеграции; наш Фонд организует во Флоренции встречи и различные мероприятия международного уровня, которых молодежь разных стран различных культур может лучше узнавать друг друга, развивать и укреплять дружбу и сотрудничество, способствует укреплению миру во всем мире.
ZADATAK FONDACIJEROMUALDO DEL BIANCO
je da doprinese stvaranju međunarodne integracije;
naša Fondacija organizuje, u Firenci, međunarodne susrete i inicijative pomoću kojih mladi iz različitih zemalja, različitih kultura,
mogu da se sretnu i upoznaju, razviju obostrano prijateljstvo i time doprinesu razvoju mira u svetu.
POSLANIE NADÁCIEROMUALDO DEL BIANCO
Poslaním nadácie je prispieť k medzinárodnej integrácii;
naša nadácia organizuje vo Florencii medzinárodné stretnutia a aktivity, prostredníctvom ktorých sa mladí ľudia z rôznych krajín a odlišných kultúr môžu stretávať a poznávať, aby vzájomne podporili svoje vedomosti a
priateľstvo, a tým prispeli k rozvoju mieru vo svete.
稽巷硝亀 季 搾肖坪 仙舘 識情庚
MISIJA FUNDACIJE
ЗАВДАННЯ ФОНДУРОМУАЛЬДО ДЕЛЬ Б’ЯНКО
Головною метою діяльності Фонду є створення міжнародної інтеграції; наш Фонд організовує у Флоренції зустрічі та різноманітні заходи міжнародного рівня, на яких молодь різних країн і різних культур може краще пізнати одне одного та розвивати й зміцнювати дружбу і співробітництво, що сприяє зміцненню справи миру у всьому світі.
THE MISSION OF THE ROMUALDO DEL BIANCO FOUNDATION
is to contribute to International Integration.
The Foundation organises international meetings and activities in Florence for young people through which persons from different Countries and Cultures may meet, get acquainted and understand each other in order to favour mutual knowledge and friendship and, hence, contribute to promoting world peace.