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**Obbiettivo:** Ask and answer simple questions about the role of the United Nations in the world. ** Fare Adesso: **   = = A [|New York] hanno sede le Nazioni Unite e il palazzo che le ospita conosciuto come “Palazzo di Vetro” merita certamente una visita per la sua bellezza e la sua importanza. Nonostante l’edificio si trovi a New York, una volta passato attraverso il cancello del palazzo di vetro, ci si ritrova in territorio internazionale. E’ situato nel quartiere chiamato Turtle Bay, nella zona est di Midtown ed è possibile coniugare una visita alla sede dell’Onu con una piacevole passeggiata lungo l’East River, dal momento che il palazzo si trova proprio all’estremità est dell’isola. The UN turns 70 UN protecting our planet UN Stories TRAILER NICOLE KIDMAN: THE INTERPRETER = illUmiNations: Protecting our Planet = = Leonardo DiCaprio (UN Messenger of Peace) at the opening of Climate Summit 2014 =
 * Com'è chiamato il palazzo delle Nazioni Unite?
 * Dov'è il palazzo delle Nazioni Unite?
 *  Perché merita una visita?

Le nazioni Unite  30 Diritti Umani U.N. TRIVIA FUN   UNITED NATIONS TRIVIA GAME  Wikipedia on the [|UNITED NATIONS] We will entered into international territory when we visit the [|United Nations Headquarters]  located in Turtle Bay. If you walk inside the boundaries of the U. N. (between 1st Ave and the East River from 42nd Street up to 48th Street) you are, in fact, walking in an area governed not by the United States, but by the U.N., which has its own police and fire department and its own postal service. As you enter the <span style="color: #f6921e; font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;">[|U.N. Visitors Center] <span style="color: #6d6e70; font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, you pass an impressive line of flags, 193 in all, representing all of the member countries. They are laid out in alphabetical order starting with Afghanistan and finishing with Zimbabwe. Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd’s anti-gun sculpture titled //<span style="color: #6d6e70; font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Non-Violence //<span style="color: #6d6e70; font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> sits outside as a symbol of international peace.
 * <span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; text-align: center;">NEW YORK: United Nations Tour for kids **
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Tours, available in 20 languages, take visitors to the **General Assembly Hall** -- the setting for the largest gatherings of world leaders in history, and the **Security Council Chamber**, where nations seek the arbitration of world opinion in an effort to resolve disputes. Also featured are objects of interest and works of art donated by member nations and friends of the organization: from artifacts which survived the atomic blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki to ancient statuary, and from a model of Sputnik to a moon rock carried to Earth by the Apollo 11 space mission, and much more.

Visitors will also enjoy works of art by such noted artists as Marc Chagall, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, and Norman Rockwell. The UN Postal Administration sells unique stamps, collectors' items that can be obtained and posted only from the UN Building.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">** The Knotted Gun ** <span style="color: #6d6e70; display: block; font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;">Non-violence sculpture, donated to the U.N. by Luxemburg Sculptor Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd created the famous bronze sculpture Nonviolence, also known at The Knotted Gun, to honor singer-songwriter John Lennon and his vision of a more peaceful world. Initially placed at the Strawberry Fields memorial in Central Park across from the singer’s former home, the piece was relocated to the plaza at the entrance to the UN in 1988, a gift from the government of Luxembourg. The Knotted Gun has become a global icon of non-violence, with replicas located the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, at the waterfront in Cape Town and in the Peace Park in Beijing, China.

<span style="color: #6d6e70; font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The NY Headquarters, built in 1952, consist of four buildings: the Secretariat building, the General Assembly building, the Conference building and the Dag Hammarskjold Library, which was added in 1961. Rather than holding a competition for the buildings, the United Nations Board of Design was created, an international committee of architects that included Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer and Wallace K. Harrison, among others.

<span style="color: #6d6e70; display: block; font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> U.N. Security Council

<span style="color: #6d6e70; font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The other main highlight of the tour was the General Assembly, the main conference hall where all 193 member States of the U.N. meet to discuss international issues. It features a large golden wall that sits just behind the podium and upper booth areas that are reserved for the official translators (as seen in the movie The Translator with Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn). <span style="color: #6d6e70; display: block; font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"> U.N. General Assembly <span style="color: #6d6e70; font-family: HelveticaLTStdRoman,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Along the tour, there are also a number of exhibits that represent the three main goals of the U.N. – peacekeeping and security, upholding and maintaining human rights, and social and economical development. Other exhibits serve as reminders of the international catastrophes that have taken place in the past due to war and conflict. You can see a status of St. Agnes that was found face-down in the ruins after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Also on view is the official document of the U.N. rejecting the denial of the holocaust.

St. Agnes statue The tour is a great way to get an intimate view of how the U.N. functions and how it conducts international business on a daily basis. It also provides a sense of hope and solidarity, knowing that right here in New York, the U.N. is working to build a more peaceful and prosperous world. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 12px;">The bronze statue, “Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares” was a 1959 gift from the then Soviet Union. Made by Evgeniy Vuchetich, the image represents the figure of a man holding a hammer in one hand. In the other he wields sword that he is making into a plowshare, symbolizing man’s desire to put an end to war and convert weapons into peaceful tools that benefit humanity. The title of the piece echoes a phrase from Isaiah 2:3: “And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”
 * <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares **

The U.N. buildings are currently undergoing their first renovation since they were built. It is an extensive renovation that started 2009 and is scheduled to finish in 2013. Only the infrastructure of the buildings are being updated; the buildings, for the most part, will remain unaltered in honor of the international style and symbolic nature of the U.N. Headquarters. Access to the visitors center is free and open to the public daily from 9:00am – 5:30pm. Public tours will continue through the renovation and are now being conducted from the General Assembly building. For more information about tours prices and times click [|here].

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