Italy takes centre stage at Washington Book Festival

Italy scored an extraordinary success at the 2016 National Book Festival, organised by the Library of Congress and held on September 24 at the Washington Convention Centre. Over 220,000 people visited the festival in one day. Two events put Italy under the spotlight this year. First, a special panel in the international section of the […]

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Israel – The Basilica of Bethlehem, a docufilm to show Italian restoration work

The documentary “Restaurare il cielo” (Restoring Heaven) tells the story of the epochal restoration of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. It shows the work of a group of Italian restorers that has been working on the recovery and the protection of the Church, a monument enshrined as a World Human Heritage site. The […]

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The Netherlands – Amsterdam hosts a course on Italian design

The Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam organised a round of six panels on the “History of Italian Design from the Post-War Years to Today”. The initiative is part of the 16th Italian Language Week in the World, whose theme this year is fashion and design. Marco Nember, founder and director of Fondazione Blue439, conducted the […]

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ACCREDITATION NOTICE – 14th Session of the Italo-Russian Economic, Industrial and Financial Cooperation Council (Farnesina, 5 October 2016)

Farnesina will host the 14th Session of the Italo-Russian Economic, Industrial and Financial Cooperation Council co-chaired by Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, and the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Arkady Dvorkovich. The meeting will be attended by high-level government officials and  representatives of major Italian and Russian  businesses. The sessions […]

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Farnesina offers condolences on the passing of Nemer Hammad

Upon learning of the passing of Nemer Hammad, Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) representative in Italy and later Palestinian Ambassador to Italy until 2005, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation offers its sincere condolences to his family and to the Palestinian government. A tireless activist and diplomat, Nemer Hammad dedicated his life to the […]

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Syria : Minister Gentiloni receives UN Envoy De Mistura at the Farnesina

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, received the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan De Mistura, at the Farnesina today. During the talks, Minister Gentiloni confirmed Italy’s support for the work of the United Nations and condemned the continuous bombing, through which the Assad regime has been striking for days on end […]

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Slovakia – “Viva Italia!” ends with a concert

The exhibition, “Viva Italia! Italian Art of the 20th and 21st centuries,” sponsored by Slovak Minister of Culture, Marek Madaric, and  Mayor of Bratislava, Ivo Nesrovnal, is about to end after running for  three months in the prestigious Civic Gallery in  Bratislava.  A musical finissage by clarinetist Nicola Sulfonet, composer Davide Pitis, and performer Paolo Albani will take place […]

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Russian Federation – Photo exhibition to celebrate Italian cinema

A photographic exhibition celebrating Italian cinema, “Viva l’Italia! Il cinema made in Italy visto dall’obiettivo di Angelo Frontoni” (Viva l’Italia! Italian cinema through the lens of Angelo Frontoni), is about to open in Moscow at the Manege, a historical palace across from the Kremlin. The exhibition, taking place from October 3 to October 8,  is […]

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USA – A “Cover Revolution!” hits the publishing world

A revolution is underway across Italian bookshops: in recent years, a wind of change has swept across the shelves where historical fiction collections used to be displayed. Many publishing houses asked a group of world-renowned Italian illustrators with a very original style to reinvent book covers. The Italian Cultural Institute in New York organised the […]

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Innovation Week opens in Trieste

The Macro-Regional Innovation Week (26-30 September), organized by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and Trieste’ AREA Science Park, will look at  the Danube, Adriatic-Ionian and Alpine macroregions.  Over 70 speakers and 250 participants, of which 80 are young people from the Western Balkans, will participate in different seminars and workshops during the Week. They will contribute […]

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Farnesina hosts debate on the challenges to European security

On 29 and 30 September the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) is hosting the 9th “Transatlantic Security Symposium” dedicated to “Europe’s Security Governance and Transatlantic Relations”, organised by the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) with the support of the MAECI, the Public Diplomacy Division of NATO, the United States Embassy, the Compagnia di […]

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India: today Undersecretary of State Della Vedova received the Indian Minister of Food Processing Industries Badal at the Farnesina

Today at the Farnesina Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs Benedetto Della Vedova received India’s Minister of Food Processing Industries, Ms Harsimrat Kaur Badal. The meeting aimed to ratify, the Undersecretary said, “the relaunching of economic, trade and industrial cooperation between the two Countries” following the meeting of 4 September with Indian Foreign Minister, Sushma […]

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