Bolivia – Italian Embassy in La Paz celebrates the 16th Italian Language Week
The presentation of Gianni Morelli’s book entitled ‘Amori, altipiani e macchine parlanti’ (‘Love stories, the Highlands and Talking Machines’) in La Paz will mark the celebrations of the 16th Italian Language Week in the world in Bolivia. The event, promoted by the Italian Embassy in La Paz, Publishing House 3600, the La Paz Committee of […]
Read moreMalta – Literature, the environment and the territory: Malta pays a tribute to Giorgio Bassani
An event paying tribute to Giorgio Bassani on the 100th anniversary of this birth will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, 13 October, in the Auditorium of the Italian Cultural Institute in La Valletta. The evening’s programme includes a conference promoted in partnership with the Giorgio Bassani Foundation, Italia Nostra and Din l-Art Helwa. […]
Read moreChina – Gruppo Italiano Vini signs partnership with Alibaba to conquer Chinese markets
The distribution of Italian wines in China has made a quantum leap by investing in e-commerce. Thanks to the agreement between Gruppo Italiano Vini (GIV) and the Tmall.com and Wangjiu.com platforms of the Alibaba Group, the wines of 15 historic wine producers will now be made available to the Chinese public, also through the group’s online […]
Read moreItaly’s Economic Diplomacy – 11 October: latest news from the world
Tunisia: Roadshow on international investment conference will be held in Milan on 20 October On 20 October Milan’s Palazzo Stelline will host in the Sala Pirelli the Roadshow on the “Tunisia 2020” International Investment Conference which will be held in Tunis on 29-30 November 2016. The aim of the Conference is to present to its international […]
Read moreMosaic art from Friuli to Qingdao
The exhibition “Mosaics from Friuli to Qingdao”, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing, was opened on 8 October in Qingdao, in Shandong Province. The exhibition brought to China the mosaics by the most renowned schools in the world for the first time. This school of mosaics has handed down, from generation to generation, the most […]
Read moreBrasilia to host the celebrations for the 16th Week of Italian Language in the World
The 16th Week of Italian Language in the World will open in Brasilia from 17 October to 21 October. The Italian Embassy in Brasilia has developed a rich programme of events starting on the 17 at 11:30 a.m. at the premises of the University of Brasilia, with a lecture by Italian journalist and writer, Antonella […]
Read moreSerbia: Slow Food to showcase Italy’s culinary excellence at a gala dinner in Belgrade
The best of Italian wine and food products will be on the menu of a gala dinner Slow Food Serbia with the collaboration of the Metropol Palace Hotel and the Italian Cultural Institute will host this evening in Belgrade. ‘A Taste of Culture’ is meant to celebrate Italy’s creativity and wine and food culture. Massimo […]
Read moreJapan hosts an exhibition of the works by Yumi Kori and Luca Zevi
The exhibition “Architecture and Memory – A dialogue between Italy and Japan through the works by Yumu Kori and Luca Zevi” has opened in the year marking the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and Japan. It represents a very special meeting between an Italian and a Japanese architect who have been discussing architectural […]
Read morePostcards from the other Italy – In Australia to teach the language spoken by Dante
In Australia there is a continuous inflow of people: the young Italians who have immigrated to the ‘land of kangaroos’ over the last 10 years are more than 80,000. One of them is Gaia, 25, from the Marche Region: she went to Melbourne to teach Italian in local schools. After spending several periods abroad with […]
Read moreWorld Day against the Death Penalty
Italy has always been on the front line, working actively and effectively to broaden the consensus on this issue, adopting an inclusive and cooperative approach. In fact, Italy has promoted several initiatives in favour of a universal moratorium on the death penalty, which led the United Nations General Assembly to pass the first resolution on […]
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