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    24 April 2013
    PARIS – Evening to honour Pistoletto at Italian Embassy

    Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the leaders of the Arte Povera movement, and to whom the Louvre will open its doors through 3 September, donated a piece of his “Terzo Paradiso” to the gardens of the Italian Embassy in Paris, where an evening in honour of the sculptor was hosted on 23 April by Ambassador Giandomenico […]

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    24 April 2013
    SEOUL – Italian jewelry showcased

    Italian jewelry was showcased at Jewelry Fair Korea 2013, in an exhibition curated by the ICE-Agency Office in Seoul in which the four main Italian jewelry producing districts (Valenza, Arezzo-Firenze, Vicenza and Caserta-Napoli) were represented. Read more, in Italian.

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    24 April 2013
    POLONIA – Works from Farnesina collection exhibited

    Works from the Farnesina Collection of Contemporary Art were displayed in an exhibition in Torun, Poland entitled “Artisti della collezione Farnesina – Carla Accardi – Smarrire i fili della voce”: 30 pieces by the Sicilian artist in various periods of her development. Read more, in Italian.

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    23 April 2013
    Puntland: 15 4x4s for local police and short-wave radio station

    Brand new vehicles and a fundamental instrument for radio communication to lead the population of Puntland toward a future of renewed development: a ceremony was held in Garowe, the capital of the North East region of Somalia, on 21 April for the official presentation of 15 Toyota 4x4s to the local police and of a […]

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    23 April 2013
    Deputy Minister Dassù at the 2nd National Forum of the Valore D Association

    Deputy Minister Marta Dassù spoke this afternoon in Rome at the 2nd Forum nazionale dell’Associazione Valore D dedicated to the theme “Toward a new equilibrium. Profit. Respect. Leadership”, an annual encounter with institutions and major representatives of economic, academic and corporate spheres on gender issues. Women in diplomacy – an encouraging trend The Deputy Minister […]

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    23 April 2013
    NATO ministerial – Monti: multiply efforts toward democratic transition in Lybia

    NATO’s participation in the training of Libyan security forces and the reintegration of armed militias was one of the proposals on the table of the Atlantic Alliance foreign ministers meeting in Brussels this morning a few hours from the attack on the French embassy in Tripoli. Premier and interim Foreign Minister Mario Monti expressed Italy’s […]

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    23 April 2013
    MAPUTO – Amb. Vellano awards “Nosside” poetry prize

    Preparations are under way in the capital of Mozambique, Maputo, for International Book Day. The Italian embassy has planned an event dedicated to poetry, with a group of “friends” of the Italian language and culture, at which Ambassador Roberto Vellanowill announce the winner of the “Nosside” international poetry prize sponsored by UNESCO. Read more, in […]

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    23 April 2013
    PANAMA – Imprese italiane protagoniste a Expocomer (in translation)

    Si e’ svolta la scorsa settimana a Panama, alla presenza del presidente Ricardo Martinelli, la XXXI edizione di Expocomer, la fiera multisettoriale piu’ importante della regione centroamericana. Per l’Europa hanno partecipato imprese italiane, spagnole, britanniche e francesi.In particolare, per l’Italia erano presenti una decina di imprese principalmente nei settori dell’abbigliamento, alimentare, vinicolo, bigiotteria e smaltimento […]

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    23 April 2013
    THE ITALIAN OLYMPICS – Finals in Florence

    The event Italian Language Days will take place at Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April, along with the finals of the Italian Olympics, an on-line competition on grammar, spelling and vocabulary aimed at promoting the study of our language. The project is sponsored by the MIUR with the support of the […]

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    23 April 2013
    RABAT – 200th birthday of Verdi, staging of Traviata

    Morocco paid tribute to Giuseppe Verdi on the 200th anniversary of his birth, with 4 performances of Traviata by the Orchestre Philarmonique du Maroc, featuring soprano Silvia della Benetta and tenors Valter Borin and Roberto Capovilla, at Rabat’s Mohammed V national theatre. Read more, in Italian.

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    23 April 2013
    PANAMA – Italian firms leaders at Expocomer

    Ricardo Martinelli was present last week as Panama hosted the 31st edition of Central America’s most important multi-sector trade fair, Expocomer. Participating European firms included those of Italy, Spain, the UK and France. Italy made an especially strong appearance with dozens of firms, mainly from the sectors of apparel, food, wine, costume jewelry and waste-removal. […]

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