La Valletta – Art and restoration, a focus on the Opificio delle pietre dure of Florence

“The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist” (1608), kept at St. John’s Cathedral in La Valletta, is Caravaggio’s major artwork of the Maltese period and was restored by the Opificio delle pietre dure (Workshop of Semi-precious Stones) of Florence. The Opificio’s Superintendent, Marco Ciatti, will be present at the conference organised by the Italian Institute […]

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Argentina – Museums and cultural landscapes focus of discussions in Buenos Aires

Museums and cultural landscapes will be the focus of attention on Mar. 14 at a roundtable in Argentina. The event, organised by the Institute of Italian Culture (IIC) in Buenos Aires as part of the Year of Italy in Latin America, is a day of study in preparation for the next ICOM (International Council of […]

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Zagreb – Focus on the influence of Italian opera on the Risorgimento

The Italian Institute of Culture in Zagreb, with the Bogdan Orizovic Library, have scheduled a moment of reflection on the Italian Risorgimento with a lecture by Monica Priante entitled “How Opera Became a Tool for Political Propaganda”, which will be held in Zagreb on Thursday. The promoters of the event said the Risorgimento was at […]

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Wolfsburg – The city of Volkswagen hosts “The New Light of Emigration” exhibition

The words of sociologist Milena Gammaitoni: “In the field of sociology, building reality with its different identities, both individual and collective, can also be achieved through artistic experiences that, seen as ‘finite provinces of meaning’, synthesise, recall and evoke images, sensations and collective ideas of how we were, are and could become,” could very well […]

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Gentiloni-Bassil: Lebanon is a Country of utmost importance for the stability of the region

Foreign Minister Gentiloni received the visit of Gebran Bassil, the Foreign Minister of Lebanon, this morning in Rome on the sidelines of the Foreign Affairs Council meeting that was held in Brussels.Discussions focused on the weight that the Syrian crisis has on the development of Lebanon – which hosts over 1.5 million Syrian refugees, representing […]

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MEDIA ACCREDITATION NOTICE – Recall – CHANGE IN SCHEDULE – Ceremony for the activation of the ‘Unite for Heritage’ Italian Task Force, created to protect cultural heritage (Baths of Diocletian, February 16, 2016)

The ceremony to mark the activation of the ‘Unite for Heritage’ Italian Task Force, established to protect cultural heritage sites, has been postponed to 11:45 am on Tuesday, February 16 at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome – Hall X. Accredited journalists, photographers and TV crews should enter the premises from the entrance at Viale Enrico […]

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DEI – Chile: Astaldi and Cimolai win contract for super-telescope

The ACE consortium, constituted by Astaldi (65%) and Cimolai (35%) in partnership with the EIE Group, won a contract to design and produce the dome and the main structure of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which will be erected on Chile’s Cerro Armazones. It will be the world’s largest structure of this type, with […]

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Italy-Unesco Agreement signed

‘Blue helmets’ of culture set up in Rome to protect the world’s artistic heritage. Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni and Unesco Director General Irina Bokova have signed an agreement to create an Italian task force and a training centre in Turin. The “Unite for Heritage” task force will consist of specialised personnel (civilian experts […]

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Italy and Serbia boost scientific cooperation

“Italian – Serbian Cooperation on Science, Technology and Humanities” is the title of the third e-book in the “Serbia-Italy” series, published by the Italian embassy in Belgrade, the Association of Italian and Serbian Scientists and Scholars (AIS3) and the University of Belgrade. The book presents the results of projects performed under the Executive Protocol on […]

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Cologne – Architecture and art, German students describe the “Piazzas of Palermo”

Students of the Architecture Department of the Cologne Polytechnic enrolled in the master’s course  entitled “Design and Construction Strategies” have analysed five ‘Piazzas’ in Palermo with the aim of understanding their functionality, social impact, potentials and problems. The results will be displayed in the exhibition entitled “The Piazzas of Palermo”, which will be open on […]

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Pretoria – “Origini Italia”, a project in search of roots and a professional future

“Origini Italia” is a training course advertised on the website of the Italian Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, although there are many embassies around the world offering the same course, from Washington to Santiago passing through Ottowa. It is open to enrolments until March 31. It is a path along which to grow, acquire training […]

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Mexico – Siena fresco exhibition to open in Mexico City

“‘Cor Magis’. The common good. Frescoes of the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena” is the title of an exhibition to be held in Oaxaca from Mar. 6 to June 3, 2016. The exhibition is dedicated to the frescoes of the ‘Sala dei Nove’ (Hall of the Nine), of the Palazzo Pubblico (city hall). The event is […]

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