Italian Carabinieri train police units in Uganda and Rwanda
Italian Carabinieri continue the training of police units in Rwanda and Uganda within the framework of the cooperation programme between the Italian Embassy in Kampala, the Police Corps of both countries and the General Command of the Carabinieri. The training programme focuses on forensic activities and on the management of public order in compliance with international […]
Read moreLos Angeles: the 6th edition of the Starring Europe Festival comes to a close
The sixth edition of the European Union Film Festival, ‘Starring Europe’, created to celebrate the best of the European Union’s contemporary film productions, has recently closed in Los Angeles. The Festival screens both feature films and shorts that have won festivals in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Poland […]
Read moreVerdi’s Trovatore opens in Tirana to celebrate the EU Week
The Embassy of Italy in Tirana, in conjunction with the Albanian National Opera and Ballet, staged ‘Il Trovatore’, Giuseppe Verdi’s drama in four acts and the second opera of his so-called ‘trilogia popolare’. The production celebrates the 2019 EU Week and promotes the opera as a distinctive feature of Italian culture. “Wherever politics builds borders, […]
Read morePlaywriting contest “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand”
The production of the short story entitled “Eresia catara” staged by the Istituto Comprensivo Statale Italiano in Barcelona won the first prize for higher Secondary Schools in the “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand” playwriting contest. The closing event of the contest took place in Agrigento on 7-10 May and was promoted by the Regional School Board of Sicily, […]
Read moreLeonardo: 5 concerts in Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Bahia Blanca, a city south of the vast province of Buenos Aires, kicked off a cycle of concerts to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci with a concert entitled ‘Amanecer desde Toscana’ (‘Dawn in Tuscany’). With this cycle, which is entitled ‘Leonardo da Vinci, the Genius of the Universal Italy’, the […]
Read moreItaly among the key international players in the Space industry
Within the context of Italian participation in the Satellite 2019 Exhibit in Washington, the President of the Italian Space Agency, Giorgio Saccoccia, spoke at the conference organised by the Italian Embassy to present the governance framework of the Italian space industry. The conference, which was inaugurated by the Italian Ambassador to the United States, Armando […]
Read moreMiami: ‘Fare cinema’ opens at the Coral Gables
The second edition of ‘Fare Cinema’, the Italian Film Festival that will tour 100 cities in the world, was organised by the Italian Consulate General in Miami and held at the Coral Gables. The rich programme of the 2019 edition closed yesterday with great public acclaim, having attracted more than 700 spectators. This year’s edition was […]
Read moreRio De Janeiro: Italian Businesses meet the President of the National Development Bank
At the invitation of Italian Ambassador Antonio Bernardini, the President of the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), Joaquim Levy was at the Consulate General of Italy in Rio de Janeiro where he met the main Italian companies already operating in Brazil or willing to invest in this market. President Levy illustrated the […]
Read moreSao Paulo: ‘A caminho do interior’ project kicks off
The ‘A caminho do interior’ project for the Italian community in the State of Sao Paulo, scheduling concerts, exhibitions and other artistic and cultural activities, kicked off with a series of concerts by Mafalda Minnozzi. The project was promoted by the Italian Consulate General in Sao Paulo to satisfy the request of the Italian community […]
Read moreTirana: winds up the film festival dedicated Bernardo Bertolucci
The film festival dedicated Bernardo Bertolucci by the Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana wound up with the screening of the ‘Little Buddha’, the story of a Tibetan monk who goes to Seattle to visit an American child in which the spiritual guide Lama Dorje is presumed to have reincarnated. The tribute to the recently deceased […]
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