Bratislava: Ambassador Meucci welcomes the National Hockey Team
The Italian national Hockey team was hosted in Bratislava by Italian Ambassador Gabriele Meucci on the occasion of their participation in the World Ice Hockey Championship which is being held in Slovakia this year. In welcoming the team, Ambassador Meucci underlined how Italian athletes who participate in sports events abroad, contribute to the promotion of […]
Read moreBeijing: a children’s painting contest dedicated to Leonardo
The fifth edition of the national children’s painting contest organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing is dedicated to the anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. The ‘Paint Italy Prize’ proposes to young contestants the theme of the figure of the Italian genius in his attempt to transmit to children “that insatiable yearning […]
Read moreCracow: series of concerts for the ‘Maggio musicale italiano’
An intense music festival to disseminate Italy’s musical heritage in Poland has kicked off in Cracow at the initiative of the Italian Cultural Institute. Now at its second edition, the ‘Maggio musicale italiano’, co-organized with Polish music partners including ‘Cracovia Andante’, the ‘Cracow Philharmonic’ and ‘Cappella Cracoviensis’, and hosted at the Boleslaw, Rzeszow and Bielsko-Biala concert halls, opened […]
Read moreAlbania in the ’20s-’30s in the photos of the Quaronis
A rare and unique look at the political and social life of Albania in the ‘20s and ‘30s is presented in the exhibition entitled ‘The Photographic Archive of Pietro and Larissa Quaroni – Albania 1928-1931’. The exhibition displays 85 photographs, most of which are unpublished, and taken by the diplomat and his wife during their […]
Read moreItalian companies attend the International Agricultural Fair in Serbia
The International Agricultural Fair opened in Novi Sad its 86th edition of which Italy is the Partner Country. The event marks the 140th anniversary of diplomatic relations and 10 years of strategic partnership between Rome and Belgrade. The Italian Pavilion, which was inaugurated by the Undersecretary for Agricultural, Food, Forestry Policies and Tourism, Franco Manzato, […]
Read moreItalian 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 […]
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