La Scala’s season presented at the Embassy in Vienna
For the third consecutive year, Palazzo Metternich, seat of the Italian Embassy in Vienna, hosted the press conference to present the 2024/2025 opera season of Teatro alla Scala. In his welcome address to the guests, Ambassador Pugliese pointed out that music is a common heritage of Italy and Austria, both of which are cradles and […]
Read more“Caffè Young Italy” in Riga
Promoting Italian talent under 35: this is the goal of the “Caffè Young Italy” project, organised by the Italian Embassy in Riga, Latvia, whose first two public conversations were a great success with the audience. “Heirs to a great tradition, our young artists – said Ambassador Alessandro Monti – successfully promote Italian creativity around the […]
Read moreIstanbul – Montella and Santarelli at the Italian Sports Day
Respect, passion, fair competition and team spirit. These are the values promoted during the first ‘Italian Sports Day in the World’ also celebrated in Istanbul. The protagonists of the event were Vincenzo Montella and Daniele Santarelli, coaches of the Turkish national football and women’s volleyball teams, and two successful icons of Italian sport in Turkey. […]
Read morePrague celebrates Italian Sports Day
The Embassy of Italy in Prague today is hosting at its headquarters the presentation ceremony of the “Italian Sports Day in the World” for the Czech Republic. The initiative promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and CONI, is aimed at “promoting Italian excellence, districts and industries […]
Read moreArgentina, the Italian sky champions to celebrate Italian sport
Within the framework of the new event “Day of Italian Sport in the World”, the Consulate General of Italy in Bahia Blanca and the Honorary Consular Agency of Italy in Ushuaia, in collaboration with the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) and Cerro Castor of Ushuaia, organised on Sunday 8 September – in coordination with the […]
Read moreA monument in Erbil in memory of Mirella Galletti
On 4 September, a monument in memory of the Italian journalist and academic Mirella Galletti, a great scholar and friend of the Kurdish people, was inaugurated on the main avenue of Sami Abdulrahman Park, the most prominent public park in the regional capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Erbil. The initiative was spearheaded by Erbil Governor Omed […]
Read moreUkraine, Ambassador Formosa at the opening of the school year
In spite of Russian aggression, the education cycle is starting again in Ukraine. The Ambassador of Italy to Ukraine, Carlo Formosa, officially opened the school year at the ‘Dante Alighieri’ School in Kiev, an institute that – with its over one thousand students – spans the primary, middle and high school cycle and boasts a […]
Read moreMali: Ambassador Dejak and the Minister of Malians Abroad launch the second phase of the Migrant Assistance Centre project in Gao
The Italian Ambassador to Mali, Stefano A. Dejak, met with the Minister of Malians Abroad, Moussa ag Attaher, to jointly launch the second phase of a project aimed at protecting and assisting migrants, centred around the operationalisation of the Migrant Centre built in Gao, in northern Mali. Building on the one million euros invested by […]
Read moreThe Vespa by Piaggio celebrated in Bahia Blanca as a universal symbol of Made in Italy
The Vespa by Piaggio is a symbol of Italian genius, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit, known and celebrated all over the world. For the first time ever, the Consulate General of Italy in Bahia Blanca has celebrated the Vespa as a symbol of Made in Italy, precisely at a time when Italy has become the fourth […]
Read moreNine archaeological artefacts recovered and returned to El Salvador by the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage
Thanks to the efforts of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC), nine archaeological artefacts of pre-Hispanic origin attributed by experts to the populations that inhabited present-day El Salvador between 600 and 900 A.D. and illegally detained by private collectors in Italy have been returned to their birthplace. This is the first […]
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