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America Latina e Caraibi

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24 March 2015
Dei – Panama: Tender for project manager for 4th canal bridge project

A tender is to be published over the next 60 days for project manager of the fourth Panama Canal Bridge project. The announcement came from Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela, who explained that the winner would also manage the three metro line project. This fourth bridge is to be built on north side of the […]

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24 March 2015
Brazil – EXPO through gastronomy in San Paolo

At 39 days from the opening of the 2015 Milan EXPO, the Italian Consulate General organised an evening dedicated to the themes of Italian and Brazilian foods and sustainability. Special guest Helena Rizzo, winner of world’s best chef 2014, did honours along with Michelin-starred Roy Caceres of Rome’s Metamorphosi restaurant, who designed a special menu […]

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24 March 2015
Venezuela – Celebration of Italian Opera

The Teresa Carreno theatre of Caracas inaugurates its opera season on 27 March with Neapolitan composer Ruggero Leoncavallo’s most famous work, “I Pagliacci” (scheduled also for 29 March). The national philharmonic orchestra, conducted by Angelo Pagliuca and the chorus of the Teresa Carreno theatre will perform the two-act opera composed in 1892. Read more, in […]

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23 March 2015
Argentina – Conservation of cultural treasures

The third international meeting on preventive conservation in museums, archives and libraries concludes today in Buenos Aries at the Historico Nacional del Cabildo museum. The event, which began on 16 March, enjoyed the support of the Italian Cultural Institute and featured interventions that included one on the restoration of the Bronzino crucifix from the Muse’e […]

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20 March 2015
Panama – Italian unification celebrated in music

The Embassy of Italy in Panama and the Italian Cultural Institute celebrated the 154th anniversary of the Italian unification with a concert held in the parliament building. The event, which was a great success, was a first for an Italo-Panamanian orchestra that was set up within the framework of a bilateral cultural accord consisting of […]

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19 March 2015
Bolivia – Italian projects become best practices at G7

Four Italian projects, developed by the Directorate General for Development Cooperation (DGCS) of the Farnesina, were included in the 2015 Accountability Report of the German G7 Presidency. The report focuses on biodiversity and its aim is to document and disseminate a series of best practices in that sector, achieved in synergy with other areas such […]

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18 March 2015
Argentina – 2015 edition of the “Lucio Fontana” Prize

The fourth edition of the “Lucio Fontana” Prize is under way, organised by the Consulate General of Buenos Aires in collaboration with Pirelli Neumaticos S.A.I.C. Participation is reserved for emerging artists of Italian descent residing in Argentina. Winners will be offered the possibility of a two-month stay in Italy for the purposes of developing their […]

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18 March 2015
Dei – Ecuador: 2015-2017 investment plan for strategic sectors gets go-ahead

The government of Ecuador presented an investment catalogue of over 94 projects for the 2015-2017 triennial, in the strategic sectors of energy, telecommunications and basic industries, with an estimated value of more than 37 billion USD. One of the plan’s main objectives is to strengthen all forms of energy production. Remaining prominent therefore are the […]

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13 March 2015
Italy-Cuba – Gentiloni meets with President Raul Castro in Havana

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni, currently on a mission to Cuba, met with President Raul Castro who “expressed great friendship toward Italy and satisfaction with bilateral relations”. Gentiloni announced his invitation to President Castro to visit Italy, the occasion for which could be the Italy-Latin America Conference in June, or the […]

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13 March 2015
Buenos Aires – Books, a journey into 16th century Venice

An erudite, exuberant and passionate journey into the daily life of 16th century Venice is what Isabella Palumbo Fossati Casa offers in her book “Dentro le case. Abitare a Venezia nel Cinquecento” (2013, 360 p., Editore Gambier Keller collana Recto/verso). The book was the result of the study of 600 state archival inventories that chronicle […]

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