Helsinki: Futurism exhibition opens
An exhibition entitled “New Art – Speed, Danger, Defiance – Italian Futurism 1909-1944” has opened in Helsinki, with support from the Italian Foreign Ministry. The show, the biggest Futurism retrospective ever staged in Scandinavia or Finland, is hosted by the Espoo Museum of Modern Arts (EMMA) as part of the Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 […]
Read moreTehran: photo album of the first Italian diplomatic mission to Iran
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first Italian diplomatic mission in Iran, the album “Iran during the Qajar Dynasty from the perspective of Montabone the Italian Photographer” was presented at the Italian School in Tehran. The event took place on 29 February 2012. Speakers at the event described the 1862 mission to Tehran, which […]
Read moreMinister Terzi’s diary: European enlargement and stability in the Horn of Africa
European enlargement will be one of the items on the agenda for Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi’s meeting with the Austrian Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor, Michael Spindelegger, at the foreign ministry in Rome on 7 March 2012. The announcement was made by the head of the ministry’s Press Service, Giuseppe Manzo, during his customary press briefing […]
Read moreOur servicemen: Minister Terzi summons the Indian Ambassador to Rome
Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has summoned the Indian Ambassador to Rome, Debrabata Saha, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Minister Terzi reiterated the positions already expressed by the Italian Government on the Italian courts’ sole jurisdiction over an event involving organs of the state operating to combat piracy under the Italian flag and in […]
Read moreItaly-Pakistan: MFA Envoy meets Pakistan’s Foreign Minister
The peace and reconciliation process in Afghanistan, the dialogue between Afghanistan and Pakistan and between Afghanistan and the US, bilateral relations between Italy and Pakistan. These were the focus for the discussion between the Pakistani Foreign Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar, and Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi’s Envoy to the region, Francesco Talò. At the close […]
Read moreSofia: new italian cinema at the International Film Festival
A month of cinema in Bulgaria: the 16th edition of the Sofia International Film Festival will take place from 9 March to 5 April 2012 in the cities of Sofia, Burgas, Plovdiv and Varna. The Italian Cultural Institute of Sofia will take this excellent opportunity to present the best in recent Italian cinema production. To […]
Read moreCuba: investment opportunities for Italy, meeting at the IILA
Trade and investment opportunities for Italy in Cuba will be the theme of a meeting on Thursday 8 March at the Italo-Latin American Institute (IILA) in Rome. The sectors in question will include farming and food production, energy, the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnologies, culture, machinery and mining, infrastructure, TICS and tourism. The meeting is sponsored […]
Read moreItaly-Arab Emirates: growing trade relations
Recent estimates by the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF), a regional organisation designed on the model of the IMF, affiliated with the Arab League and headquartered in Cairo, confirm the top position earned by the United Arab Emirates in 2010 as the top Arab world market also for 2011. As regards Italy, the Emirates are the […]
Read moreWarsaw: exhibition ‘People and the City’, from the Unicredit collection
The Unicredit Group collection comes to Poland with the exhibition “People and the City”, which opened on 2 March in Torun and features many of the collection’s major pieces, including “Piazza d’Italia”(1970) by Giorgio De Chirico and “Paesaggio” (1925) by Giorgio Morandi, and the photo “Birmingham” (2008) by Marco Zanta To read more select ITALIANO […]
Read moreMontevideo: last leg of the written in Italy tour, Italian literature abroad
The long journey of Written in Italy – the first itinerant library of Italian literature translated abroad – comes to an end in Latin America where it began with the first edition in Argentina. Twelve stops in over four years, covering more than 100,000 kilometres, for an unprecedented experience that will wind up in Montevideo […]
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