Sofia – Prize for film on St. Mark’s Basilica

The documentary film “L’anima di Venezia: la Basilica di San Marco” took first prize in the Archaeology and History category of 2014’s VII edition of the Sofia Film Festival on Cultural Heritage. The film, which tells the story of the world famous monumental basilicawith its splendid Byzantine mosaics, was screened along with another three documentaries […]

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Italy-Austria – Growth in bilateral cooperation

Bilateral cooperation between Italy and Austria is on the rise. Italian ambassador in Vienna Giorgio Marrapodi recently made a visit to the authorities of Upper Austria, where he met with Governor Josef Puhringer and Mayor of Linz Klaus Luger, with whom he discussed reciprocal cooperative relations between Italy and that part of Austria in terms […]

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Argentina – Buenos Aires celebrates Art Nouveau

“Art Nouveau in Buenos Aires and the Italian architects of the Centennial” is the title of a seminar organised for 9 June by the Italian Cultural Institute of the Argentine capital with curators Willi Pastrana, Ivan Malesaniand Alejandro Figueroa. During the year of the Centennial (1910) the emerging middle class contracted Italian architects to build […]

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Italy-Usa – Journey through narrative and film in Washington

Nobel laureate for literature Mario Vargas Llosa, 3-time Oscar-winner Vittorio Storaro and award-winning writer Alessandro Barrico sat on a panel together last Friday at one of the US’s most beautiful universities – Washington’s Georgetown – for a “Voyage through the Fantastic World of Narrative and Cinema” , as part of the “Italian Culture – The […]

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Intervento del Ministro Mogherini al Comitato dei Ministri del Consiglio d’Europa

(fa fede solo il testo effettivamente pronunciato) Presidente, Segretario Generale, Colleghi, vorrei innanzitutto ringraziare la Presidenza austriaca per l’eccellente lavoro svolto e augurare alla prossima Presidenza azera un’attività proficua. Vorrei anche ringraziare il Segretario Generale Jagland per il suo ottimo rapporto sullo stato della democrazia, dei diritti umani e dello Stato di diritto in Europa. […]

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The coffin of Andrea Rocchelli arrived at Ciampino at 17:00

The coffin carrying the body of Andrea Rochelli arrived at Rome’s Ciampino airport at 17:00 on a flight arranged by the foreign ministry’s Crisis Unit. Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini was among those awaiting arrival of the plane, which also carried the family members and colleagues of the photo-reporter killed in Ukraine.

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Italy-Romania: Mogherini in Bucharest, Italian presidency a new phase for EU

Italy is working to see to it that its duty presidency will mark a turning point in the European Union, Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini said in bilateral meetings today in Romania, which offered an opportunity to reconfirm Rome’s excellent relations with Bucharest. From now until the end of the year, community institutions are […]

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Diplomazia Economica Italiana – 28 May: Latest World News, compiled in collaboration with Il Sole 24 ORE Radiocor

Dubai: 2014 Gulf furniture market valued at 2.73 billion USD The 2014 interior furnishings market of the United Arab Emirates at valued at 2.73 billion USD, according to the data that emerged at the International Design Exhibition (INDEX), where more than 700 vendors from 44 countries (up 15% over last year) displayed their wares. Italy […]

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Recall – Giornata della trasparenza – Inaugurazione nuova Collezione Farnesina (Farnesina, 29 maggio 2014)

On Thursday 29 May 2014 at 9:30, Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini will join Minister for Culture Dario Franceschini at the foreign ministry in Rome in inaugurating the new mounting of the Farnesina Collection, within the framework of the 3rd annual Transparency Day. The “Farnesina Art Collection” was set up in 2001, and has […]

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Italy-Romania, Mogherini in Bucharest – Talks centred on bilateral relations and international agenda concerns

The status of bilateral relations and major international agenda concerns, beginning with the Ukraine crisis and the consequences of Sunday’s European vote, will be the focus of the talks Minister Federica Mogherini has planned for today in Bucharest with Romanian leaders.

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Quito – UN praises Italy for restoration of San Francisco convent

The UN praised Italy for its contribution to the restoration and enhancement of the San Francisco convent complex in Quito. Participants in a recent ceremony for the presentation of its management plan included, among others, Ecuadoran Minister for Culture Francisco Velasco, Director of the INPC (international institute for cultural patrimony) Maria Josè Armijos, UN country […]

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Japan – The Uffizi in Tokyo from October

The Uffizi Gallery will be “on tour” in Japan from 11 October to 14 December. The Tokyo residence of Ambassador DomenicoGiorgi hosted a press conference for the presentation of the initiative, which will be mounted at the city’s metropolitan museum and include over 70 workds by Italian Renaissance and Mannerist masters Boticelli, Andrea del Sarto, […]

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