“Orfeo” opens the Italian cultural season in Zagreb

The Italian Ambassador to Croatia, Pierfrancesco Sacco, opened the 2022 Italian cultural season with “Orfeo”, an opera by Nicola Porpora and performed at the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb. After its world premiere in Vienna on 22 January last, the opera has travelled to Zagreb thanks to the cooperation between the Italian Cultural Institute in […]

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Tehran: on show the best of Italian design

The Italian Ambassador in Tehran, Giuseppe Perrone, opened the preview of “Domus Design – Teheran 2022”, the international exhibition of Italo-Iranian design to be hosted in the Iranian capital from mid-March. The exhibition draws inspiration from the “Domus Design” exhibition that took place in Teheran in 1975 at the initiative of the Milan-based magazine which […]

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Pact for Export drives record Italian exports during the pandemic

Following 2020, a year marked by a global economic crisis which also took a heavy toll on Italy, the year 2021 has proved – albeit not across the board – crucial in consolidating global economic recovery. Italy, for its part, has witnessed growth in both GDP and employment, a significant contributor to rekindling exports. Buoyed […]

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Pact for Export drives record Italian exports during the pandemic

Following 2020, a year marked by a global economic crisis which also took a heavy toll on Italy, the year 2021 has proved – albeit not across the board – crucial in consolidating global economic recovery. Italy, for its part, has witnessed growth in both GDP and employment, a significant contributor to rekindling exports. Buoyed […]

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Brussels. Italian Ambassador in Flanders to promote Italian trade

Italy’s Ambassador to Belgium, Francesco Genuardi, recently spearheaded a mission to Antwerp, Flanders. The mission, the first of several scheduled across a number of Belgian provinces, sought to foster integrated economic and cultural diplomacy within the scope of broader efforts to bolster trade with Belgium. With trade between Italy and Belgium on the rise, Antwerp […]

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Holocaust Day. Hong Kong hosts Klezmer concert

Marking January 27’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong is to host a Klezmer music and Yiddish song concert. Guest performers include sax player and leading contemporary Klezmer musician Gabriele Coen, pianist Pietro Lussu and, with three feature performances, singer Barbara Eramo. Seeking […]

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Mexico: drawings and paintings inspired by the Divine Comedy

The Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City hosts an original exhibition consisting of a series of drawings and paintings by Gerardo Suzán, inspired by the Divine Comedy and the three canticles Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. In the first section, “Tres Tiempos (Three Times)’’, organized by the Fundación Lodie por el Arte y la Cultura, in […]

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Tel Aviv: the Shoah in Italian comics

To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, in partnership with Mama Comics, presents “Illustrated Memory. The Shoah in Italian Comics”. It is a digital event – running from 17 January to 2 February – that every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday will offer the possibility to discover how Italian cartoonists related […]

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Fulci, legend of diplomacy. He taught us the honour of serving Italy

When they ask me where I served in the military, I reply: in New York, with Francesco Paolo Fulci, the “iron ambassador”, the diplomat defined as a legend by Madeleine Albright. Once, he told her with proud courage: “I am not a sergeant of the marines but the ambassador of Italy.” She ended up admiring […]

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Fulci, legend of diplomacy. He taught us the honour of serving Italy

When they ask me where I served in the military, I reply: in New York, with Francesco Paolo Fulci, the “iron ambassador”, the diplomat defined as a legend by Madeleine Albright. Once, he told her with proud courage: “I am not a sergeant of the marines but the ambassador of Italy.” She ended up admiring […]

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Italy condems the recent bombing in Yemen

Italy strongly condemns the aerial bombing on a prison in Saada, in the Yemeni territory controlled by Houthi rebels, which caused dozens of victims. It is urgent to stop the Yemeni conflict, which is causing suffering and victims among the civilian population. The parties must return to the negotiating table immediately under the aegis of […]

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Address by Undersecretary Della Vedova at the Conference on the future of Europe

Speaking at the third plenary session of the Conference on the Future of Europe, Undersecretary Benedetto Della Vedova underscored how a European common political space is emerging from the difficulties of these past few years. Undersecretary Della Vedova called on the Plenary to take into serious consideration and carefully discuss the recommendations made by citizens […]

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