Statutes and Board of Directors

The Swiss Pro Venezia Foundation was constituted on 3rd July 1972 in response to an appeal to the international community launched by UNESCO and the Council of Europe for help to save Venice from the disastrous effects of the great flood of November 1966.

The Foundation is based in Bern, at Marius Gfeller, lawyer and notary public, Thunstrasse 24, 3005 Bern.

Pro Venezia’s mission is defined as follows:

The Swiss Pro Venezia Foundation was set up to collect funds for the safeguarding of the cultural heritage of Venice, to employ them for this purpose in the framework of the international aid effort and to ensure that Swiss initiatives to this end are well coordinated. To achieve its goal Pro Venezia informs the public of the importance and the scope of the international effort to save Venice, participates in the research undertaken to establish the principles and the scientific basis underlying safeguarding action, collects public and private funds for the restoration of religious and other monuments of historical or artistic significance and of other cultural works, and also takes part in these restoration operations. In the eyes of the world, the Foundation represents Switzerland’s commitment to safeguarding the cultural heritage of Venice.
 

The Board of the Fondazione Svizzera Pro Venezia (Swiss Pro Venice Foundation) is made up of personalities from all over Switzerland who care about safeguarding Venice and its immense artistic, historical and natural heritage.

Alongside the Foundation, the association of the Amici di Pro Venezia (Friends of Pro Venice) has been set up. This is open to all those who ideally share the activities and aims of the Foundation and who follow and support its activities.

 

DEEDS OF FOUNDATION

  • Stiftungsurkunde. Deed of Foundation of the Fondazione Svizzera Pro Venezia dated 3rd July 1972. Click here to see the text
  • Federal Political Department (= Ministry of Foreign Affairs): Proposal of 9th May 1972 to the Federal Council (= Swiss Government) to set up the Fondazione Svizzera Pro Venezia. Click here to see the text

 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
 

Honorary Chairman:Alma Bacciarini †
Chairman:Giordano Zeli*
Vice chairman:Paola Piffaretti* 
Secretary: Swiss Pro Venezia Foundation, c/o AS Accounting Services SA, Via Magatti 6, CH-6001 Lugano
Directors:

Walter Anderau, Lorenz Bühler, Fulvio Caccia, Spartaco Chiesa*, Rudolf Dudler*, Francesco Galli*, Ernst Iten, Gaspare Nadig*, Peter Nobel, Ivano Proserpi*, Kathy Riklin, Leo Schubert, Marco Solari, Maurizio Solaro del Borgo*

*members of the Executive Committee

Auditors:               S&A Tax & Audit SA, Via Massagno 10, CP754, CH-6903 Lugano
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