Agrigento
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Province of Agrigento (Sicilia)
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On 3 december 2015, the Garden of the Righteous of Agrigento was inaugurated in the archaeological park of the Valle dei Templi, between the Temple of Concordia and the Temple of Juno.
During the ceremony, Father Pino Puglisi, the priest killed by the Mafia in 1993, was honored with a olive tree. The initiative was supported by the Academy of Mediterranean Study in collaboration with the archaeological park "Valle dei Templi".
The authorities and the mayor of Agrigento, the academics, many educational institutes and Gabriele Nissim, Chairman of Gariwo, participated in the inauguration.
A tree for Father Pino Puglisi
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People honoured in this Garden
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| Father Pino Puglisi the priest killed by the Mafia in 1993 |
| Rosario Livatino [biography on external website] was an Italian magistrate who was killed by mafia |
| Khaled al-Asaad the keeper of Palmyra |
| Italian Coast Guard women and men that risk their lives to save the ones on the run from hunger and violence |
| Piersanti Mattarella italian politician, he was assassinated by Mafia while he held the position of President of the Regional Government of Sicily |
| Paolo Borsellino italian judge, he is considered as one of the main symbols of the battle against the Mafia, together with his colleague and friend Giovanni Falcone |
| Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa italian general, he was assassinated by the Mafia in Palermo with his wife and his bodyguard |
| Moshe Bejski The man who created the Garden of the Righteous |
| Pietro Rossano [biography on external website] a man of dialogue |
| Giovanni Falcone, Francesca Morvillo and the faithful body guard [biography on external website] symbol of the fight against the mafia |
| Boris Giuliano [biography on external website] the policeman killed by Cosa Nostra |
| Pasquale Pistorio [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous - biography on external website] businessman engaged in the help of children |
| Marianella Garcia Villas [biography on external website] collaborator of Oscar Romero, always engaged in the battle for human rights |
| Victims of Foibe Massacres [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous] |
| Blessed Giovanni Battista Scalabrini [biography on external website] |
| Hans Scholl [biography on external website] |
| Giuliano Guazzelli |
| Giuseppe Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo |
| Alganesh Fessaha a woman to the rescue of migrants in Africa and Lampedusa |
| Sophie Scholl the white rose that stood up to Nazism |
| Jacob and Elisabeth Kunzler [biography on external website] husband and wife from Switzerland; they lent aid to the Armenians |
| Calogero Marrone [biography on external website] he saved hundreds of Jews by providing them with false documents |
