Israel – Haifa celebrates Marcello Mastroianni’s greatest films

Israel celebrates Marcello Mastroianni’s greatest films twenty years after his death. Sixteen films of one of the most important figures of Italian cinema will be screened at the Cinematheques of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Herzliya, Holon and Sderot, thanks to the ADAMAS (Roma-TEL AVIV) Cultural Association, in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institutes in Tel […]

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Malta – Music, Italy takes centre stage in Malta’s International Organ Festival

The Malta International Organ Festival, which ran from 19 November to 9 December 2016, featured internationally renowned musicians performing music composed or adjusted for the king of keyboard instruments: the organ. Through the cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute in La Valletta, Italy participated in three of the Festival’s concerts. Moreover, Italy was assigned the […]

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Conference of the Directors of Italian Cultural Institutes – “Vivere all’italiana”, the new integrated promotion strategy illustrated at the Farnesina

Art, cinema, design, food: Italy increases its stakes on the points of excellence of the Italian Way of Life in projecting its image around the world. “Vivere all’Italiana” (“Italian way of life”) is the name of Italy’s innovative integrated promotion strategy abroad, which will be illustrated at the Farnesina this morning. The occasion is the […]

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Change of Access for the Press – Conference of the Directors of Italian Cultural Institutes in the World (Farnesina, 19 December 2016)

The Conference of Directors of Italian Cultural Institutes in the World will take place at the Farnesina on 19 December 2016. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International   Cooperation Angelino Alfano will open the conference. He will be followed by the Minister of Cultural Property and Cultural Activities and Tourism Dario Franceschini, the President of the Dante Alighieri Society Andrea Riccardi, the […]

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Alfano: meets with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, Davor Ivo Stier

Today the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, received at the Farnesina the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, Davor Ivo Stier. The talks focused on the excellence of bilateral relations. “Italy is Croatia’s second-largest trade partner,” said Minister Alfano, underscoring that “there […]

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Alfano: talks on the phone with Turkish Foreign Minister

  “Italy firmly condemns today’s bombing in Kayseri and expresses its closeness to the families of the victims and its solidarity to the Government and the people of Turkey,” Angelino Alfano, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, told the Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, during a telephone conversation.   “Reinforcing cooperation in combating […]

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Alfano: “Syria, 25 million euros to support humanitarian activities”

“Also in 2017 we will not fail giving our support to the victims of the conflict in Syria. The Italian Government has allocated 25 million euros to finance humanitarian activities in the Country and in the region,” said Angelino Alfano, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. He continued: “It is our wish and […]

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Afghanistan – Breast Cancer Diagnostic Centre opens in Kabul

Italy continues to stands by Afghan women with the opening of a Breast Cancer Diagnostic Centre at the Istiqlal Hospital in Kabul. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the Afghan Minister of Health, Firozuddin Firoz, Italy’s Ambassador, Roberto Cantone, the Director of the Italian Cooperation Office, Rosario Centola, and health experts Arif Oryakhail and Marino Martin. Some […]

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Argentina – Italian Cultural Institute in Córdoba promotes work by Franco Nonnis

Following the positive experience in the city of Ledesma (Jujuy), the Cultural Councillorship of the Province of Jujuy in Argentina, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute in Córdoba, showcases some of the works of Sardinian artist Franco Nonnis. The “Fuga” exhibition will run until 31 December at the Centro Cultural Hector Tizón in San […]

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Australia – Italian contemporary art on show with Merlatti Collection

Australia focuses its attention on Italian contemporary art. The opening of the exhibition of the Merlatti Collection, on show at the Italian Cultural Institute in Melbourne until 10 January, was a great success. The exhibition displays the most important works in the collection of Silvano Merlatti, an Italian art collector residing in Melbourne. In opening […]

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Latin America – Legality and security: strategies, shared experiences, and cooperation perspectives

Today the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) is hosting the Conference entitled “Legality and security in Latin America: strategies, shared experiences, and cooperation perspectives”, organised as part of the celebrations of the 150th Anniversary of the foundation of the Italo–Latin American Institute (IILA). The Conference unites the Ministers of Justice of many […]

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Brussels – Statue of St. John the Baptist returned to Italy

The Italian Embassy in Belgium informs that on 15 December a work of art illegally taken from Italy’s artistic heritage was returned to the Country in Brussels. The work of art is an almost 1-meter-high white Carrara marble statue of St. John the Baptist attributed to the16th Century artist Gerolamo Galizzi, a.k.a. Gerolamo di Santacroce […]

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