Sydney, Italy’s great (and hidden) beauty on display

The Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney is organising a history and art course to uncover the great beauty of Italy’s lesser known UNESCO World Heritage sites. Guide Kathleen Olive, art historian with a PhD in Italian Studies, will take you on a virtual tour across the sites that are off the beaten track but just […]

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Teheran, the special report by “Internazionale” dedicated to Iranian literature

Today, the Italian Embassy in Teheran, with the “Internazionale” and the Iranian magazine “Na Dastan”, held a reading event at the residence of Ambassador Giuseppe Perrone featuring Iranian contemporary literature which was the focus of the special report on the Rome-based magazine’s issue N. 1441 in the week from 23 December 2021 – 5 January […]

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Prague showcases Hortus, the fountain of the seven circles of heaven

The “Hortus” Fountain by artist Agostino Iacurci drawing inspiration from the myth of Paradise, is made in enamelled Impruneta terracotta, and is located inside a seven steel-and-neon ring structure reminiscent of Dante’s seven circles of heaven and is exhibited in the Baroque Chapel of the Italian Cultural Institute until the 4th of February. Thanks to […]

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Melbourne hosts the Milano Design Film Festival

This year, the Italian Cultural Institute in Melbourne will open the 17th edition of the Milano Design Film Festival with a long documentary by Carlos Saura ”Renzo Piano: Architect of Light” and with the film ”The Importance of being an Architect” on Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel, partners and co-founders of the famous Milan-based ACPV […]

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Syria. Little Mustafa is on his way to Italy

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation expresses its deep satisfaction at the imminent arrival in Italy of the family of Mr. Munzir al-Nazzal and little Mustafa, the Syrian refugees portrayed in the photograph by Turkish artist Mehmet Aslan, the winner of the “Siena International Photo Award” 2021. In the wake of the wave […]

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Belgrade: the latest in Italian cinema hits the Balkans

Starting January 24 next, Belgrade’s Yugoslav Film Archive is to host the first edition of CinemaItaliaOggi Balcani. Set to become an annual event, the film festival will showcase the best in latest Italian cinema releases. Ten critically acclaimed Italian movies from the past three years are due for screening until January 29. In February, a […]

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Thanks to SIMEST-managed Italian Foreign Ministry Fund 394, tie manufacturers Marinella open London store and launch e-commerce website

Loans issued through Fund 394 – managed by SIMEST under agreements with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – have allowed classic quality Italian tie manufacturers Marinella to boost their internationalisation strategy via investments aimed at strengthening foreign-market brand presence. Marinella’s twin goals involve boosting their international offering by opening a store in […]

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Note of the Foreign Ministry – Di Maio – Blinken phone talks (Rome, January 19, 2022)

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio pursues talks on Russia-Ukraine agenda. In the latter part of today the Minister was on the phone to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, welcoming mutual exchanges between the two countries – as testified by both governments’ shared pursuit of dialogue with Moscow, albeit pursuant […]

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Note of the Foreign Ministry – Di Maio – Le Drian phone talks (Rome, January 19, 2022)

Today Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio was in phone talks with France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian. The Russia-Ukraine agenda and international and European coordination in respect thereof held centre stage during the talks. Minister Di Maio firstly stressed Italy’s concern at developments along the Russia-Ukraine […]

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Haifa: conference on “Lost female painters”

The Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa is organising the second of a series of four conferences, entitled “The mystery of the lost painters”. The conference, to be held online today and curated by researcher Shuli Feuer Scheinwald, zeroes in on two female artists, included in the group of the major Italian Renaissance painters. The first, […]

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New Business Matching Platform launched in India

The Embassy of Italy in New Delhi has organised, together with CDP (Cassa Depositi e Prestiti), a virtual event for the launch, in India, of CDP’s Business Matching Platform, which will allow Indian and Italian enterprises to connect and grow by setting up new partnerships, in order to boost business opportunities in the two countries. […]

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Tel Aviv, webinar on climate change impact

The Embassy of Italy in Israel and the Italian Cultural Institute of Tel Aviv have organised a series of online scientific meetings in partnership with The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (a faculty of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev), centred on the relationship between man and mountain, called “So Harsh, So Fragile: […]

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