Addis Ababa celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of architect Arturo Mezzedimi

The Italian Cultural Institute in Addis Ababa – under the Cultural and Scientific Cooperation Agreement with the Università Iuav di Venezia and in cooperation with the EiABC – Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (University of Addis Ababa) – organized an event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of architect Arturo […]

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Della Vedova at the conference for the reconstruction of Ukraine

Undersecretary of State Benedetto Della Vedova will head the Italian delegation at the Ukraine Recovery Conference, scheduled to be held in Lugano on 5 and 6 July. The conference will focus on Ukraine’s future reconstruction prospects, both economic and infrastructural as well as social and humanitarian. The conference will be attended by Ukrainian Prime Minister […]

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Meeting between the Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia in Rome, Goran Aleksić.

Today, the Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ambassador Ettore Francesco Sequi, met with the Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia in Rome, Goran Aleksić. The Secretary General expressed his satisfaction over the close bilateral relations between Italy and Serbia, as confirmed by Minister Di Maio’s visit to Belgrade on 22 June 2022. During their discussion, […]

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​Canada – 11th edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival

The Embassy of Italy in Ottawa, the Diplomatic-Consular Network and ICE-Agenzia have co-produced the 11th edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF), which opened on 24 June 2022 and will run until 16 July. This year, the event returns to indoor and outdoor screenings, while also retaining its successful online programme. It is available […]

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Media accreditation notice – sustainability mobility event (Farnesina, 6 July 2022)

At 10.30 on Wednesday 6 July a sustainable mobility day will begin at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The event will see the “switch-on” of two new electric vehicle recharging pillars installed in the Cortile d’onore at the Farnesina. The “Emilia 4” four-seater solar-powered car will also be on show to the […]

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​Two works by Berengo Gardin enter the Farnesina Collection

A browse through the recent acquisitions by the Farnesina Collection reveals “Polesine, Veneto” (1971) and “Taranto” (1993) by Gianni Berengo Gardin (Santa Margherita Ligure, 1930) The first photograph is from a series on the Po Delta. It recounts an ancient landscape characterised by the “persistence of agricultural work in all its antiquity”, untouched by modern […]

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​Munich – Italian literature festival dedicated to “home”

ILfest – Italienisches Literaturfestival München, the Italian book and literature festival in Munich, is dedicated this year to the concept of home. Home as a space protected from external threats, but also a space that is different from the workplace. Or, in an even broader sense, home as in “our planet”. During the various events […]

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​Belgium – Mermec wins tender with Belgian railways

Mermec has won the tender published by Belgian railways (Infrabel) for the supply of railway infrastructure diagnostics trains. The contract is worth between 50 and 90 million euro, depending on the number of trains required. The product provided by the Italian company includes very high-technology trains that can travel at 200 km/h in “bimodal” fashion, […]

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​Dhaka — commemoration of the Italian victims of the terrorist attack of 1 July 2016

A ceremony commemorating the Italian victims of the brutal terrorist attack of 1 July 2016 took place today at the Embassy of Italy in Dhaka. The Farnesina’s Director General for Italians Abroad, Luigi Vignali, accompanied by the Ambassador to Dhaka, Enrico Nunziata, laid a wreath of flowers on the plaque commemorating our nine fellow citizens. […]

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​Libya: 95 people find protection thanks to Italy

Ninety-five vulnerable people forced to flee their country left Libya this evening, headed for Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. They include children, female victims of trafficking, survivors of violence and torture and people with serious health conditions, identified by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Libya, on the basis also of information from the Community of Sant’Egidio […]

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Copenhagen: meeting with the Strega Prize finalists

The Copenhagen Italian Cultural Institute hosted the sole foreign leg of the 2022 Strega Tour. Six of the finalist authors of its LXXVI edition attended the meeting: Mario Desiati, Claudio Piersanti, Marco Amerighi, Veronica Raimo, Alessandra Carati and Veronica Galletta. It was held in Italian, with translation into Danish, and organised by Stefano Petrocchi, Director […]

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The Italian Film Days in Bosnia-Herzegovin

The Italian Embassy in Sarajevo presented the annual Italian Film Festival in Bosnia-Herzegovina, featuring a vast film screening program in the Country’s largest cities between 27 June and 3 July 2022. “The Italian Film Days represent one of the most popular of our cultural promotions among the Bosnian-Herzegovinian public,” said the Italian Ambassador Marco Di […]

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