lay the first stone

"This is the government and legislature that have the ambition to lay the first stone and start building this blessed project," said Matteo Salvini, the infrastructure minister and head of the League coalition party.

Mary Forster - who was born a Raine - lived in the home until she got married and moved out in the 1940s and went on to lay the first stone of Spain's Field at Beamish at the age of 101.

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele speaks during a ceremony to lay the first stone of Chivo Vet, a veterinary hospital financed with the gains El Salvador has obtained from its bitcoin operations, in Antiguo Cuscatlan, El Salvador November 1, 2021.

The Senegalese American artist, whose full name is Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam, was in town to lay the first stone in a cornfield on 2,000 acres of coastal land given to him by the Senegalese government.

Following a meeting with Roma president James Pallotta on Saturday, Mayor Ignazio Marino says “our hope is to lay the first stone within the first six months of 2015.”