The Italian Summer Festival Season: A tour of Italian festivals

On Sunday, 21 June, the Festival of Music will feature the first important concert with an audience after the COVID 19 emergency, besides being the beginning of the “Italian Summer Festival Season”, a suggestive tour of the principal Italian Festivals with a programme for 2020 announced to the World, thanks to the collaboration between the […]

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A tour of Italian festivals showcasing entertainment, culture and regional diversity

On Sunday, 21 June, the Festival of Music will feature the first important concert with an audience after the COVID 19 emergency, besides being the beginning of the “Italian Summer Festival Season”, a suggestive tour of the principal Italian Festivals with a programme for 2020 announced to the World, thanks to the collaboration between the […]

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Shanghai Consulate: “xiao bangongshucai” inaugurated

The Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai is tinged with green: today Consul General Michele Cecchi unveiled the “xiao bangongshucai” (small office garden) with which one of the founding principles of sustainability is also adopted in the Consulate, so everyone must do their part. COVID-19 pandemic has shown how much our individual behaviour, our daily […]

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IIC Copenhagen: “Io è un altro”, Masbedo’s video art

The Italian Cultural Institute in Copenhagen presents the new video art project of the Italian duo MASBEDO, a commission designed to be disseminated via the Instagram profile of the Institute. The project comes from the desire expressed by the Italian Cultural Institute to help keep the fundamental relationship that art has with life open, using […]

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Embassy in Washington: meeting with Italian companies

Today, the Italian Embassy in Washington organised a second virtual meeting with the main Italian companies’ top management for investment and turnover operating in the US. The meeting, chaired by Ambassador Varricchio and organised by the Economic-Commercial Bureau of the Embassy with the participation of the coordinator at ICE Bureaus in the US and of […]

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The work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the repatriation of our compatriots continues: around 97,600 Italians have returned

The work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a safe return home of compatriots stranded abroad continues. About 97,600 citizens have returned from the beginning of the COVID-19 emergency thanks to the work of the Crisis Unit and the diplomatic-consular network, which have activated 1075 air, sea and land operations from 120 countries. Today, […]

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Minister Di Maio on a mission to Turkey

Minister Luigi Di Maio is on mission to Turkey today to meet his counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. Bilateral relations between Italy and Turkey, the Libyan crisis, Turkey-EU relations and the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean are among the topics on the agenda.                 

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Covid-19: Del Re, Italy has guaranteed refugee accommodation

“Despite the limitations imposed by the pandemic emergency, Italy has continued to ensure the protection of asylum seekers, taking all necessary measures to guarantee that restrictions on the movement of the entire population were compatible with international obligations”. This was underlined by the Vice Foreign Minister Emanuela Del Re at the virtual press conference presenting […]

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Italian Cultural Institute of Valletta “Through Landscapes” – photographic exhibition by Stefano Amantini

Italian Cultural Institute of Valletta “Through Landscapes” – photographic exhibition by Stefano Amantini. Fully online exhibition: from 22 June to 5 July, a photo is published every day on the Institute’s Facebook and Instagram pages. The photographer’s world is not very crowded. In his vision, only few travelers will cross it, a human presence that is […]

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IC Rio: “Migrazioni e intolleranza” (Migration and Intolerance) by Umberto Eco

The vision expressed by Umberto Eco in the four papers collected in the book Migrazioni e Intolleranza (Migrations and Intolerance), is the theme of the meeting organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Rio de Janeiro on June 23rd, as part of the series Dialoghi Italo-Brasiliani (Italo-Brazilan dialogues), which aims to bring together writers, intellectuals, […]

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IIC Buenos Aires: meeting with writer Claudia Durastanti

The Italian Cultural Institute resumes its cycle of meetings with writers Quadrante Sud. Nuove rotte letterarie Italia-Argentina (New literary routes Italy-Argentina). The Quadrante Sud project was born in 2019 in cooperation with the Turin International Book Fair, with the aim of promoting meetings, circulation and translation of contemporary Italian literature in Argentina, and vice versa, […]

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Med Dialogues: dialogue with the UN Special Envoy Syria

The Med Virtual Dialogues initiative proposes today at 3:00pm a dialogue between Paolo Magri, Director of Ispi, and the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir O. Pedersen. Mr. Pedersen has been appointed as Special Envoy for Syria in October 2018. He takes this position after decades of political and diplomatic experience, having served both the […]

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