{"id":144,"date":"2023-04-03T19:15:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T23:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/chi-siamo\/la-sede\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:56:13","slug":"la-sede","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/en\/chi-siamo\/la-sede\/","title":{"rendered":"The Headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Consulate General is located at 1818 Market Street, Suite 910, Philadelphia PA 19103.<\/p>\n<p>HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN DIPLOMATIC DELEGATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE PRESENCE OF CONSULAR DELEGATIONS IN PHILADELPHIA<\/p>\n<p>Even before the end of the unification of Italy , various Italian States including the Republic of Genoa , the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia , the Papal State , the Duchy of Parma, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany entertained diplomatic or consular relations with the United States. In Philadelphia, Count Joseph Ravara was first appointed Consul in 1791 and later credited as General Consul of Genoa in the United States (see article in the newspaper in Philadelphia in 1791 which cites that Consul General Ravara was presented to President Washington and Secretary of State Jefferson).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esteri.it\/MAE\/ministero\/Servizi\/ArchivioStorico\/11Washington.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARCHIVES OF THE\u00a0DELEGATION OF SARDINIA AND\u00a0\u00a0OTHER ITALIAN DELEGATIONS TO THE\u00a0U.S.A. (1848-1901) (LINK)<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/countries\/genoa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A GUIDE TO THE U.S. HISTORY OF RECOGNITION, DIPLOMATIC, AND CONSULAR RELATIONS,\u00a0SINCE 1776: THE REPUBLIC OF GENOA (LINK)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Petizione-Console-Genova.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COPY OF THE PETITION TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF THE CONSUL GENERAL OF GENOA , JOSEPH RAVARA, BY THOMAS JEFFERSON TO THE PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON (LINK)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/A-Bridge-between-Two-Cultures-Richard-N-Juliani-PhD.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><strong>THE CONSULATE GENERAL FROM THE UNIFICATION OF ITALY TO THE PRESENT (by RICHARD N. JULIANI, Ph.D.)<br \/>\nSTORIA DEL CONSOLATO GENERALE DALL&#8217;UNITA&#8217; D&#8217;ITALIA AI GIORNI NOSTRI (DEL DOTT. RICHARD N. JULIANI)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/it\/chi-siamo\/la-sede\/public-ledger-storica\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-720 img-fluid aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Public-ledger-storica-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Public-ledger-storica-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Public-ledger-storica-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Public-ledger-storica.jpg 911w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(Photo: Italian Reservists at the Consulate &#8211; Last Call for WWI )<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Consulate General is located at 1818 Market Street, Suite 910, Philadelphia PA 19103. HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN DIPLOMATIC DELEGATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE PRESENCE OF CONSULAR DELEGATIONS IN PHILADELPHIA Even before the end of the unification of Italy , various Italian States including the Republic of Genoa , the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":142,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/2637"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consfiladelfia.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}