Vegetazione Parco Migliarino, San Rossore, Massaciuccoli (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)
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Vegetazione Parco Migliarino, San Rossore, Massaciuccoli (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)Marconi radio station:on 19 November 1911, the first radiotelegraphic communication was transmitted from this place: Guglielmo Marconi (Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909), in the presence of King Vittorio Emanuele III, sent his regards to Glace Bay, in Nova Scotia. Marconi chose this area precisely because it is characterised by a marked depression in the ground, which makes it a large natural satellite dish. For this reason, after the war the Americans also installed a large radio centre called 'The ear of the Mediterranean' in this place. In 1921, following radical expansion works, the Marconi radio station became the most powerful transceiver station in Europe and was used for intercontinental communications. From 1919 to 1924 the station was used by the Italian Royal Navy to extend communications to boats at sea. The management was then entrusted to a private company, 'Italo Radio', until 1930, when the radio station passed under the direct management of the Ministry of Postal Services. In that period, the Centre experienced its maximum splendour; in 1931 the radio signal that turned on the lights of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro departed from the centre, as a demonstration of the reliability and importance of intercontinental radio communications.
