Twenty-five years after the inauguration of its current headquarters, the Embassy of Italy in Washington celebrated the creators of the "Palace on the Potomac" in recent days during an evening dedicated to Piero Sartogo and the importance of the role of Italian architecture in the United States. The Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Mariangela Zappia, emphasized how the Embassy headquarters, combining tradition and innovation, "best represents the identity and values of Italy, strongly rooted in its history, but always projected into the future. Our atrium, always full of light thanks to the glass vault," Zappia pointed out, "recalls the Italian piazza: in fact, the building designed by Piero Sartogo was born as a place of work, but also as a space for meeting and exchanging ideas, as well as a permanent exhibition of Italian design. The evening highlighted some important aspects of the work of architect Sartogo, who died in 2023, and his work in Rome, Milan, New York and Washington, and the main stages from the design to the construction of the Italian Embassy, which has remained virtually unchanged since the day it opened, were retraced. Stages retraced in the volume "The Palace on the Potomac. The Embassy of Italy in Washington," edited by Ambassador Gaetano Cortese, which illustrates the history , structure and furnishings of the building offering also a rich photographic apparatus.