Filming Italy-Los Angeles: Italy used as a film setting
Claudia Cardinale, an icon of style and beauty, was the guest star at the fourth edition of Filming Italy – Los Angeles, which was attended by personalities from Italy’s and Hollywood’s film industries, and that has just closed at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Los Angeles and at the Harmony Gold Theater. By promoting Italian film productions, Filming Italy – […]
Read moreTrade between Italy and Serbia hits record levels
Trade between Italy and Serbia hit record levels with over 4 billion euros in 2018 For the first time in 2018, trade between Italy and Serbia exceeded the 4 billion euro mark, as the Serbian Statistical Institute disclosed yesterday. The consolidated data on foreign trade released by the Serbian Statistical institute showed that trade between Italy and Serbia amounted to 4.03 billion euros in […]
Read moreItaly promotes two projects in Gambia in association with UNICEF
The Italian Ambassador in Dakar, Francesco Paolo Venier, and the Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) in Dakar, Alessandra Piermattei recently visited Gambia to launch together with the Gambian authorities, two development projects in association with UNICEF. The first project, which is directly financed by AICS, is concerned with promoting the Gambian side of a regional initiative, valued […]
Read moreStockholm: exhibition “The art of copying – watercolours of Etruscan tomb paintings from the turn of the 19th Century”
Acknowledgement must be given to Italian artist Alessandro Morani for the record that still exists of paintings that decorated Etruscan tombs between the 7th and the 13th century BC, since he copied those paintings in a series of watercolors. The exhibition “The art of copying – watercolours of Etruscan tomb paintings from the turn of the […]
Read moreNew Visa Application Centre opens in the Province of Hubei
In order to promote Italian tourism in one of the most dynamic and populous regions of China, a new Italian Visa Application Centre was opened in Wuhan, the provincial capital of Hubei. The head of the Italian Embassy Consular Office in Beijing, Eugenio Poti, attended the ceremony. He remarked on the progress that has […]
Read moreVisit by Deputy Minister Del Re to the UN Headquarters
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, visited the UN Headquarters in New York from 28 to 30 January. The main topics discussed with her interlocutors included Italy’s commitment towards promoting peace and development in Africa, support for the implementation of Agenda 2030 with a focus on empowering young people and women, reform […]
Read moreBicycle Thieves film at the PuSh in Vancouver
A new take on Vittorio de Sica’s masterpiece ‘Bicycle Thieves’, with live musical and voice accompaniment, was performed for two evenings at PuSh, the international festival in Vancouver, now in its 15th year. The Italian Consulate General, in association with the Italian Cultural Centre, organised the screening. The neorealist film was shown without sound and with […]
Read moreJapan, an international research team discovers a new form of matter
A new type of ‘strange matter’, which could provide new information on the origin of the mass of the universe following the Big Bang, was discovered by the scientists of an international team in Japan, partially financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The E15 experiment conducted at the Japan Proton Accelerator […]
Read moreHolocaust Memorial Day. Commemoration by the Representative of Italy to NATO
The Representative of Italy to the North Atlantic Council, in partnership with the #WeRemember campaign promoted by the World Jewish Congress, commemorated the victims of the Shoah in Brussels. Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller and a large representation of Ambassadors of the Alliance, including Israeli Ambassador Aharon Leshno Yaar, met at NATO headquarters for the […]
Read moreRemembrance Day, Cultural Institute events in the world
Primo Levi, the Italian writer who bore witness to the Holocaust to a greater extent than anyone else, has been taking centre stage in a packed programme of events organised by Italian Embassies and Cultural Institutes throughout the world to commemorate Remembrance Day in 2019. The centenary of Levi’s birth has provided the opportunity to […]
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