Italian Economic Diplomacy 22 May: latest world news
Brazil: tenders for railway licences and gas distribution expected in the coming months As part of the Brazilian Government’s investment programme, tenders are expected to be published in the next few months for licences to operate two railway lines: the Norte-Sul, with two sections running from Acailandia to Estrela d’Oeste, and Ferrograo, to be built […]
Read moreChina – Veronafiere in China: new deals on the Silk Road
New commercial avenues are opening up in China and throughout the Asian continent for the Italian Exhibition System. Veronafiere is playing a major role on the Silk Road so much so that its President, Maurizio Danese and Director General, Giovanni Mantovani are currently in China, visiting Beijing and Shanghai. They met with the Italian Ambassador […]
Read moreUnited States – San Francisco to host a lecture on Etruscan cities and Bologna on May 25
A lecture entitled “The Founding and Development of Etruscan, Roman and Medieval Cities. The Example of Bologna”, organised and hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco, in conjunction with the Municipality of Bologna and Cultura Italiana, will be held on May 25. The lecture will show how everything revolved around the sacred nature […]
Read moreFrance – Italian Cultural Institute in Paris features Luchino Visconti’s “Death in Venice”
The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Paris has scheduled the screening of one of Luchino Visconti’s masterpieces to celebrate Venice in the French capital, that is hosting an exhibition entitled “Serenissima. Venezia in festa, da Tiepolo a Guardi” running at the Cognacq-Jay Museum until 25 June. The IIC will launch the third event of the […]
Read moreDavide Tranchina’s revealing snapshots of the island of Montecristo
Situated in the Tyrrhenian Sea and part of the Tuscan Archipelago, Montecristo is one of the wildest and inaccessible Italian islands. In his “40 days and 40 nights in Montecristo” photographic exhibition, Davide Tranchina reveals a land as fascinating as it is enigmatic. Curated by Irene Campolini and Luca Panaro, the exhibition is due to […]
Read moreSigned at the Farnesina the MoU between the IILA and the FAO on food security and rural development in Latin America
On Friday 19 May, at 2:45 pm, the Farnesina hosted the signing ceremony of the Memorandum of Understanding between the IILA (the Italian Latin American Institute) and the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) on strengthening cooperation on issues of food security and rural development in Latin America. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) […]
Read moreItalian Economic Diplomacy, 19 May: latest news from the world
USA: Renexia wins Maryland wind power contract Renexia (Toto Group) and its North American subsidiary company, US Wind, have won a contract to supply wind power to the State of Maryland. The contract is part of an auction the Italian group won in 2014 to develop a wind farm project off the coast of Baltimore. Once the planning and […]
Read morePortugal – ‘Treasures of the Vatican Museums’ exhibition lands in Lisbon
Lisbon’s Museu Nacional de Arte Antica has organised the exhibition “Madonna. Tesouros dos Museos do Vaticano”, with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. The event will open on May 19, and will run until September 10. The curators are Alessandra Rodolfo and Jose’ Alberto Seabra Carvalho. This is the first time that a selection […]
Read moreUnited States – “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema” event to open with film “Indivisible”
The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City will soon host “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema”, the major film festival dedicated to Italian contemporary cinema in the United States. The Festival’s 17th edition will run from 1 to 7 June, 2017 and offer New York audiences a selection of the most important Italian films of 2016. The opening night will feature […]
Read moreSerbia offers a full immersion in the music of Puccini
The Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade, in association with the National Theatre of Belgrade, presented a concert-lesson dedicated to Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. The guest of the evening was Milan-born Maestro Alberto Veronesi, one of Italy’s most renowned Italian orchestra conductors specialised in Puccini’s repertory and president of the Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago. […]
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