Italy-Mexico – Success for the Cruzando Fronteras Festival
The recent second edition Festival Cruzando Fronteras was a great success. The festival was created last year by Italian citizen Luciano Consoli who, as president of the Fundacion Mahahual, and consists of a series of activities aimed at promoting the intersection of Italian and Mexican artistic cultures. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreInternational Made in Italy Forum
Preparations are under way for the International Made in Italy Forum planned for 14-16 March in the Principality of Monaco. The event will offer a vast showcase for the promotion of Italian firms on international markets. Participants will include the Monégasque authorities, and numerous representatives of major small and medium-sized Italian and international enterprises and […]
Read moreTripoli – The cities of Tripolitania “revived”
One of the richest Roman cities in the Mediterranean – Leptis Magna – lay for centuries beneath the desert sands along the coast of Libya, but has now re-emerged thanks to the efforts of Italian archaeologists. Sabratha The same goes for the beautiful Sabratha, another city in north western Libya founded by the Phoenicians and […]
Read moreUkraine crisis – Mogherini, Italy working on setting up a Contact Group
The solution to the crisis in Ukraine lies in dialogue. This is the goal of Italy’s political-diplomatic efforts, and that were the focus of Minister Federica Mogherini’s speeches in international meetings and in her bilateral talks, particularly those she held recently before and after the International Conference on Libya in Rome, attended by 40 delegations […]
Read moreScience Diplomacy – Tuesday 11 March on Radio Luiss new segment of “Diplomazia e Dintorni”
All international policy activities concerning science and technology could be grouped under the heading “Science Diplomacy”. But what is this complex activity all about and what role do the diplomats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs play in this increasingly important sector? The 19th segment of “Diplomazia e dintorni”, which airs on Tuesday 11 March, […]
Read moreItaly-Chile: Giro, excellent political relations and promising economic developments
“I am very pleased to be in Chile at this moment”, stated Under-Secretary Giro, in Santiago to attend the inauguration of Chile’s President, Michelle Bachelet. “Chile is close to Italy’s heart, a friendship born of our emigration and strengthened during the years of the coup and dictatorship, years in which Italy proved its great solidarity. […]
Read moreArgentina – Italian courses in Buenos Aires
The Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires will begin offering its first cycle of 15-week Italian language courses on 10 March. The courses will be divided into regular, intensive and super-intensive. The Institute also offers conversation courses, children’s courses and CILS and CELI exam preparation courses. Italian being one of the most studied languages in […]
Read moreCzech Republic – Italy main protagonist at Prague Carnival
Italy was the main protagonist at the Prague Carnival. Thanks to collaboration with our embassy and Italian Cultural Institute, a cycle of theatrical spectacles and concerts was organised for the Opera Barocca Festival, with the participation of counter tenor Alessandro Giangrande and the accompaniment of the “In vino veritas” ensemble. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreHong Kong – Carravaggio’s “Supper at Emmaus”
Caravaggio’s masterpiece “Supper at Emmaus” left Milan’s Brera museum for the first time ever for Hong Kong, where it arrived to be part of the exhibition “Light and Shade – Caravaggio, Master of the Italian Baroque” at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center from 12 March to 13 April. The painting, valued at 59 million […]
Read moreIzmir – Italian quartet enchants jazz festival
The Furio di Castri Quartet played at the opening concert the European Jazz Festival in Izmir to an enthusiastic audience of more than a thousand people, and later on in a jam session for a crowd of 400, while Italian jazz history professor at Istanbul’s Bilgi University and the festival’s musical consultant, Francesco Martinelli, held […]
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