HRH Crown Prince to head Kingdom's delegation to Italy

, Sept. 3 (BNA): His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister will head the Kingdom's official delegation on Friday, September 4, to Italy to participate in Bahrain's National Day celebration at Expo Milano2015, in the presence Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa president of Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) also general commissioner of Bahrain Pavilion at Expo Milano2015 as well as senior Italian officials and participants of the international expo. Bahrain's flag will be hoisted and the Kingdom's Royal Anthem will be played by the Police Music Band which will tour the main corridors of the expo. The Music Band of Mohammed bin Faris will perform a collection of Bahraini folk songs. The Bahrain National Pavilion "Green Architectures" at Expo Milano2015 (Feeding the Planet: Energy for Life) will continue to receive visitors until the end of October. Through the National Pavilion, BACA aims to exhibit on a total space of 2,000 square meters the unique agrarian cultural heritage of the Kingdom. The pavilion was conceived to display an endless array of natural scenery comprising fruit gardens and trees that blossom on various seasons. The national pavilion includes ancient artefacts depicting agricultural traditions dating back to several thousands of years. Bahrain's Pavilion inalso aims to spread awareness about the significance of farming heritage of the Kingdom, the ambassadors of the national pavilion are: Alia Al Moayyed, Khalid Al Muharraqi, Narjis Qamber, Reem Al Mu'alla and Ahmed Talib. They represent various sectors and specialisations, including nutrition, arts, architectural engineering, design and environment, all of which are domains related to the main motto of the Expo which is: Feeding the Planet: Energy for life. To boost the spectacular cultural experience of visitors, the Bahrain Pavilion contains a special coffee shop which offers a selected ensemble of Bahrain recipes. Bahrain also participates with a cookbook at the expo to revive memories of folk foods. The traditional ringlet Bahraini sweet won the top world position in the category of confectionaries classified by several gourmet specialists who discover new flavors as part of the expo events. The pavilion ushers attire are exquisitely designed by Bahraini designer Hind Matar to harmoniously fit in with the architectural shapes of her own design in the pavilion and to reflect the motto of the pavilion "Green Architecture" to showcase ancestry and innovation at the same time. Built out of white prefabricated concrete panels, the pavilion will be moved to Bahrain at the end of the Expo and once rebuilt will serve as a botanical garden. The prefabricated components of the buildings, visible through the seams that connect them to one another, loosely refer to the inherent and distinguished forms of the archaeology of Bahrain. Archaeologies of Green, the pavilion of the Kingdom of Bahrain, at the Expo Milano 2015 is a poetic interpretation of the cultural agrarian heritage of the country, which stems from the ancient civilizations of Bahrain. With ten distinctive fruit gardens, containing trees that will be fruit–bearing at different moments throughout the six-month duration of the exhibition, the pavilion also features archaeological artifacts that celebrate the millennia long tradition of agriculture and perpetuate the many myths of Bahrain as the location of the Garden of Eden and the land of the million palm trees. Italian "Wallpaper" magazine and German "Baunetz" magazine praised the Bahrain Pavilion's exceptional design and green gardens.