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America Latina e Caraibi

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21 March 2013
MONTEVIDEO – technology at the service of italian language students

Technological innovation as the key element of a programme developed by the Italian Cultural Institute in Montevideo for students on its Italian language courses. Social networks will play an important role: the Institute’s website now has a regularly up-dated Facebook group and Twitter account. And, along with a local sponsor, the reading room now has […]

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19 March 2013
Italy-Paraguay: Important partner in Latin America, says Terzi

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi met the Foreign Minister of Paraguay, Jose’ Felix Fernandez Estigarriba, at the Farnesina today, 19 March 2013. Minister Estigarriba was in Rome with the President of Paraguay, Federico Franco, to attend the ceremonies marking the beginning of the Pontificate of His Holiness Pope Francis. The talks focused on bilateral and regional […]

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19 March 2013
BUENOS AIRES – A week of italian culture

NiccolòMachiavelli and Giuseppe Verdi are playing a starring role in Buenos Aires. The Italian Cultural Institute has organised two meetings dedicated to the Florentine writer and to the great composer. Read more, in Italian

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19 March 2013
ITALIA-BRASILE – Seminar on infrastructure development a great success

The seminar on “Italian-Brazilian cooperation for infrastructure development” organised by the Italian Embassy in Brasilia attracted “great interest”. About 250 representatives of the institutions and the business and financial communities of the two countries took part. Italy was represented by the Environment Minister, Corrado Clini; the President of the Italian Trade Institute, Riccardo Monti; and […]

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15 March 2013
BRASILIA – Green Embassy becomes a graduate thesis

University of Brasilia student Ronaldo Sergio Chacon Camargos used the “Green Embassy” of Italy in Brasilia, with its innovative clean energy system, as the topic of his thesis in electrical engineering. Read more, in Italian.

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14 March 2013
BRASILIA – Workshop on Cooperative Infrastructure Development

A workshop was held yesterday on “Italo-Brazilian Cooperation in Infrastructure Development”. Organized by the Embassy of Italy, the workshop was attended by over 250 institutional and business world representatives from both countries (50 Brazilian firms and 70 Italian groups). Sustainable use of resources fosters economic development The workshop sessions were opened by Minister for the […]

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7 March 2013
MEXICO – An exhibition from the Farnesina collection, with the focus on Rome

An exhibition entitled “In Rome. Works from the Farnesina Collection”, featuring a selection of contemporary art by masters such as Giorgio de Chirico, Renato Guttuso, Mario Schifano, Pistoletto and Sironi, has opened in Mexico City. The 21 works were produced by artists who lived and worked in the “Eternal City’, or who drew inspiration from […]

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5 March 2013
Bolivia – Italy supports the country’s cultural heritage

Enhancing the cultural heritage and restoring the altar and the works of art housed in the Church in Canton Cohoni, painted by Leonardo Flores in around 1680, and repairing the roof. This is the goal of the “Fortalecimiento de la Capacidad de Gestion del Patrimonio Historico – Proyecto Piloto Canton Cohoni” project illustrated in late […]

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1 March 2013
BUENOS AIRES – Argentine architecture speaks italian

“Argentine Architecture Speaks Italian” is the title of a seminar organised for Monday 4 March by the Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires. Its purpose will be to discuss Italians’ contribution to the construction of that city and to Andean artistic culture. Read more in Italian.

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27 February 2013
BRAZIL – Infrastructure Collaboration Workshop

Italo-Brazilian collaboration on infrastructure will be the central theme of a technical-operational workshop scheduled for 13 March in Brasilia and organised by the Italian embassy there. Participants in the event (sponsored by Azimut, Cogip, Ever Green Power, Ghella, Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Impregilo, Rina, Trevi) will include, among others, Minister for the Environment Corrado […]

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25 February 2013
SAN FRANCISCO – Battle of the chefs for 3 italians

Three Italian chefs battled it out at the “San Francisco Italian Athletic Club” on Monday 25 February, each seeking the prize for the best first-course dish. The event was organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, the SF Italian Athletic and FIERI, in collaboration with Viola Buitoni Club. Read more in Italian.

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