Warsaw – An exhibition to celebrate the Italian Cultural Institute’s first 80 years

The Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw is celebrating its 80th birthday with an exhibition of drawings by great Italian artists, on loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The exhibition also includes letters and articles regarding the opening of the Institute, on 12 November 1934. Forced to close at the outbreak of the Second World […]

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Oman – Italy takes centre-stage at Royal Opera House in Muscat

Italy will be taking centre-stage at the next season of the Royal Opera House in Muscat, with performances of Macbeth (Teatro dell’Opera di Trieste), Falstaff (Teatro La Scala) and Don Pasquale (Teatro Comunale di Bologna), as well as a concert by Riccardo Muti in March 2015. As the Italian Ambassador to Muscat, Paola Amadei, pointed […]

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Expo: An opportunity for growth, says Mogherini – “A showcase for Italian excellence and for a renewed effort to combat malnutrition”

EXPO 2015 will be the biggest global event for the coming years, with 147 official participants and more pavilions than the Shanghai edition. It will be “a unique opportunity for our agri-food industry, an encounter between the most dynamic businesses in the sector”. These were the comments of Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini as she presented […]

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Buenos Aires – Lucilla Galeazzi to perform Italian folk music

Lucilla Galeazzi, a composer, researcher and lecturer specialising in Italian folk music, will be giving her first concert in Argentina on Saturday 21 June 2014. The event is being organised by the Umbria Centre in Buenos Aires, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Embassy, in collaboration with the Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos […]

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Ljubljana – Events celebrating the city’s links with Italy a great success

Ljubljana’s links with Italy have been showcased in a number of recent events organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in the Slovenian capital. Highlights were the exhibitions on “The Brain. Inside story”, featuring recent discoveries in neuroscience, and “Emona: A City of the Empire”, celebrating the city’s first two millennia. Both opening events were attended […]

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Tel Aviv – Italian cultural events are a great success

Italian music and theatre events have been a great success in Tel Aviv. The events, which included the first ever Italy-Israel Jazz Festival to mark UNESCO’s International Jazz Day, were organised by the Italian Cultural Institute “to disseminate Italian culture, in its various sectors, throughout Israel”. Read more, in Italian.

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London – Italians in tour for Pontignano Conference

Ten young people, 5 of them Italian, are in London for the Pontignano Fellowship Scheme, an exchange programme organised in the run-up to the Pontignano Conference. The theme of this year’s Conference, which will take place in Pontignano, near Siena, from 3 to 5 October 2014, is “Better together or better apart?” Italian and British […]

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“Italy and space” – Parmitano and Cristoforetti meet the UN in Vienna

Italian astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano were guests of honour at “Italy and Space”, the event organised in Vienna by Italy’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. The event was organised with the support of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the collaboration of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Italian […]

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Intervento conclusivo del Sottosegretario Della Vedova alla Conferenza LGBTI: “Le persone LGBTI nella realtà odierna”

(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato) · A conclusione di questa intensa – e spero per tutti – utile e fruttuosa giornata di lavoro, permettetemi di riassumere alcuni dei punti che sono emersi. · Il quadro che si va delineando – a tre anni dalla pubblicazione del Rapporto dell’Alto Commissario per il Diritti Umani […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore: Romania: punta a investimenti automotive, turismo, infrastrutture (in translation)

Romania: punta a investimenti automotive, turismo, infrastrutture Si è tenuta a Sibiu, storica città della Transilvania, una conferenza internazionale sulle opportunità di investimento. La località è economicamente attiva con diversi parchi industriali di cui due particolarmente importanti (settori: componentistica auto e macchinari industriali, tessile, agroalimentari, elettrotecnica) ed è anche una delle principali mete turistiche del […]

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La Farnesina condanna il sequestro dei 3 giovani israeliani

The Farnesina condemns the kidnapping of 3 young Israelis and appeals to the kidnappers for their immediate release. These actions are an unacceptable attack on the Israeli people and undermine their confidence in the peace process. And more: they also damage the Palestinian people’s legitimate aspiration to see their rights recognised, as President Abbas said […]

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Dei/Sole 24 Ore:Brasile: apre a import da Italia di salumi breve stagionatura (in translation)

Brasile: apre a import da Italia di salumi breve stagionatura Le Autorita’ brasiliane hanno comunicato l’approvazione del nuovo certificato sanitario per l’esportazione dall’Italia verso il Brasile di prodotti derivati dalle carni suine. In particolare, le Autorita’ locali hanno riconosciuto la regionalizzazione della malattia vescicolare, come proposto dal nostro Ministero della Salute, e quindi autorizzato l’ingresso […]

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