News of resumption of settlement construction raises concerns in Farnesina

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation is concerned by the news that the Israeli government has resumed the construction of settlements on the West Bank. At this time, the call is for Israelis and Palestinians to make every effort to resume the Peace Process with the support of the international community. The Farnesina […]

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Paraguay: Beta Studio wins consultancy project for recovery of Lake Ypacarai

Beta Studio, in association with the Thetis engineering company, has won a contract worth about 1 million dollars for consultancy services for the reclamation of Lake Ypacarai, an important natural and tourism resource for Paraguay. The project is financed by the Inter-American Development Bank. The Padua-based engineering company, which provides advice and technical services for […]

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Chile – A personal show in August featuring works by Alejandra Rojas Contreras

The paintings of Italian-Chilean artist Alejandra Rojas Contreras will be on display in Santiago from 6 to 29 August at a personal exhibition entitled “Algo Pendiente”. The exhibition was organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Santiago in collaboration with our Embassy in Chile. Algo Pendiente is the second exhibition organised by the Italian Cultural […]

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Montreal – Canadian jazz meets Italian folk: Sicilian Jazz Project and Pilar

Canada’s Sicilian Jazz Project will be performing with Italian singer Ilaria Patassini, known as Pilar, at the “Pilar and the Sicilian Jazz Project” concert on Saturday 1 August 2015. The concert, sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal, will take place at the Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts in Ottawa. The event is […]

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Poland: Salini-Impregilo and Astaldi win two contracts

Salini-Impregilo and Astaldi have won two important contracts in Poland. Salini-Impregilo will work on the planning and construction of a 20.27 kilometre stretch of the A1 motorway south of Warsaw near the city of Katowice. The contract is worth about 170 million euro and works will last for 33 months. Astaldi, with its Turkish partner […]

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The Secretary General, Michele Valensise, has summoned the Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation, Giancarlo Kessler

The Secretary General of the Farnesina, Michele Valensise, summoned the Ambassador of the Swiss Confederation, Giancarlo Kessler, today to express Italy’s keen concern over the measures introduced by the cantonal authorities of Ticino and affecting Italian cross-border workers. The measures infringe the European agreement on 1999 on the free movement of people, are clearly discriminatory […]

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Cartoline dall’altra Italia: From Salerno to Dundee – the biologist fighting tumours

Laura Spinelli is a biologist from Campania Region. Aged 33, since 2008 she has lived in Dundee, in Scotland, where she works as a cancer research scientist currently specialising in tumour suppressors. Dr Spinelli is featured in the latest instalment of “Cartoline dall’altra Italia”, the web series produced by the 9colonne media agency with support […]

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Shanghai – Works by Andy Warhol and Mimmo Rotella shown together for the first

Andy Warhol and Mimmo Rotella will be shown together for the first time in the “You are art – Andy Warhol + Mimmo Rotella Art Exhibition” in Shanghai. Organised by the MetaMorfosi Cultural Association and Shanghai’s Resource Valley IMC in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, the exhibition will run for 3 months and feature […]

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Uruguay – Celebrating the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with “Sudamericanamente”

The history of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in Latin America in the early years of the 20th century is the theme of the “Sudamericanamente” exhibition being held in Montevideo from 15 August to 18 October 2015. The event is being organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in the Uruguayan capital and by the archive […]

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Rio de Janeiro – Discovering Edoardo Demartino: from sailor to court painter

Seascapes and naval battles painted with remarkable realism, in an exhibition featuring sailor-turned-artist Edoardo Demartino that runs until 20 September 2015 in Rio de Janeiro. Hosted by the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (MNBA), the exhibition was organised by MNBA and IBRAM/MinC and the Diretoria do Patrimonio Historico e Documentação da Marinha in collaboration with […]

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Toronto – Homage to De Sica with exhibition and retrospective

Toronto is hosting a homage to Vittorio De Sica, the great Italian film director and actor, with the multi-media exhibition “Tutti De Sica”. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Bologna Film Archive in collaboration with Tiff Cinemateque, the exhibition will run until 17 September 2015. Read more, in Italian.

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Chile – First staging of Rock Opera Stabat Mater

Chile welcomes the first staging of the rock opera Stabat Mater by Italian composer and performer Franco Simone. The event, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with our embassy in Santiago, will take place on 27 July. Videos that are part of the opera will also be screened, with the artists themselves offering […]

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