San Paolo: female images in Italian art

The Italian Cultural Institute in San Paolo is organising a series of conferences on women in Italian art. It will cover both artists like Artemisia Gentileschi, and the muses that inspired great artists like Leonardo, Raffaello, Tiziano, and Bernini. Within a cycle of five online meetings, Luciano Migliaccio, Professor of the History of Art at […]

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Zagreb: 21 photos of Italian piazzas during the lockdown

The Italian Ambassador in Zagreb, Pierfrancesco Sacco, and the new director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Gian Luca Borghese, opened the exhibition in Croatia of the virtual photographic exhibition “Piazze [In]visibili / [In]visible Piazzas”, 21 photos of Italian piazzas taken during the lockdown. The art project, hosted at Galerija Ružić, Sl. Brod in Zagreb, is […]

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Minister Di Maio participates in the informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the European Union (Gymnich)

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, will be in Brdo today and tomorrow to attend the informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the European Union (Gymnich). The meeting will focus on Afghanistan and its rapidly deteriorating political and security situation, as well as the risks to which the stability […]

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Meeting between Minister Di Maio and the Malian Minister, responsible for the humanitarian action, solidarity, refugees, and displaced people, Oumarou Diarra

Yesterday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met the Malian Minister responsible for humanitarian action, solidarity, refugees, and displaced people, Oumarou Diarra, at the Foreign Affairs Ministry. Minister Di Maio, who did his first mission in Sub-Saharan Africa as Foreign Affairs Minister in Mali, stressed Italy’s commitment to the Country […]

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Tanzania, Ambassador Lombardi presents “Business Incubator”

Italy’s Ambassador to Tanzania, Marco Lombardi, spoke at the presentation of a project of the MZumbe University, in Dar es Salaam, for the creation of a “Business Incubator”, in collaboration with the Catholic University of Milan and E4IMPACT Foundation, chaired by Letizia Moratti and whose membership includes MAPEI, WeBuild, Intesa San Paolo.     During […]

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Brussels: “Fragments of Sandro Trotti’s World” exhibition

The Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels, in collaboration with the Marche Studies Centre, presents the exhibition “Fragments of Sandro Trotti’s World”. The exhibition will open until 18 September at the Institute. Born in 1934 at Monte Urano, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, the painter soon moved to Rome where he concentrated on experimenting with […]

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Minister Luigi Di Maio participates in the ceremony in honour of the US veteran Martin Adler

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, attended the ceremony in honour of US veteran Martin Adler. In 1944, Adler, who took part in the Allied offensive in Italy, rescued three children he found hidden inside a wicker basket.

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Minister Luigi Di Maio holds talks with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, held a telephone conversation with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi. The agenda included support and cooperation between Italy and the United Nations in Afghanistan on the humanitarian situation, assistance to Afghan refugees in neighbouring countries, multilateral coordination and the role of […]

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Riga: a journey through Italian art from the 16th to the 21st centuries

The Embassy in Riga has reopened the museum exhibition season with the exhibition “Self-Reflection”, a journey through Italian art from the 16th to the 21st centuries. The result of cooperation between the Uffizi Galleries, the Art Museum Riga Bourse and the Embassy, the exhibition, which is hosted in the splendid Venetian-style main hall of the […]

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Algiers, a masterclass on film criticism

The Italian Cultural Institute of Algiers has collaborated in the organisation of an online masterclass on film criticism, scheduled from 12 to 16 September 2021 and aimed at students and professionals of Algerian cinema.  The event is part of online meetings on film criticism entitled “Jil Cilima” (from 11 to 18 September 2021) organised by […]

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Italian archaeological mission in Azerbaijan, new excavations

Excavations by the Italian archaeological mission in Azerbaijan have resumed as part of the GaRKAP (Ganja Region Kurgan Archaeological Project) funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The main objective of the archaeological project is to learn about the history of the populations of western Azerbaijan from the 4th to the […]

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Sparkle launches Metamorfosis II, the first “Green” Data Centre in Greece

Sparkle announces the launch of Metamorfosis II, the first “green” data centre in Greece and one of the largest and most advanced in Europe. With this new opening, Sparkle brings the number of data centres managed in Greece to four: three in Athens – interconnected by a proprietary fibre optic network that traverses the industrial […]

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