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America Latina e Caraibi

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27 March 2017
Event at the Teatro Nacional di San José, ​Costa Rica

Our Embassy, together with the Delegation of the European Union, organized an event at the Teatro Nacional San José, the most prestigious cultural institution of the Country, to celebrate 60th anniversary of the signing of the Rome Treaties. The event was attended by the President of the Republic of Costa Rica, Luis Guillermo Solis, accompanied […]

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23 March 2017
​Montevideo: conference to celebrate 60 years of the Treaties of Rome

On Tuesday, 21st March, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Uruguay, the well-known historian and political expert Gerardo Caetano, president of the Association of Historians of Uruguay, gave a lecture entitled “60 years since the Treaties of Rome. History and assessment of the origins of the European Union”. The meeting was opened by the […]

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20 March 2017
Brazil – Olivetti designed by Sottsass on show in Sao Paulo

The Italian Cultural Institute in Sao Paulo will open an exhibition devoted to the Olivetti of Ettore Sottsass as part of the Italian Design Day at the Museu da Casa Brasileira next 28 March. The important Italian company, which was leader in the market of typewriters, calculators and electronic devices in the 20th century, in […]

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14 March 2017
Argentina – Bariloche hosts International Colloquium on Philosophy

Bariloche will host the 10th International Colloquium on Philosophy on March 15.  The  event has been organised by the National University of Rio Negro, in the city of San Carlos, in partnership with the University of Buenos Aires and the the Italian Cultural Institute in the Argentinian capital. This year’s theme will be “The World […]

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13 March 2017
Argentina – Italian contemporary cinema in Argentina’s libraries

A series of contemporary Italian films will soon be shown in Argentina with the ‘Cine para lectores’ initiative, which seeks to organise screening in the libraries of Buenos Aires. The project has been organised in collaboration with the Direccion General del Libro, Bibliotecas y Promocion de la Lectura of the Ministry of Culture of the […]

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13 March 2017
Chile – “Memoria de la Retina” Exhibition opens in Santiago

The exhibition “Memoria de la retina” (“Memory of the Retina”) by Italian photographer Carlo Gavazzeni has just kicked off at the AMS Marlborough Art Gallery. The exhibition, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Embassy in Chile, will run until 10 April. Gavazzeni has always experimented new shooting and printing techniques that enable […]

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6 March 2017
Argentina – Dante’s Purgatory at the IIC in Buenos Aires

The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Buenos Aires, on Thursday 9 March, will host a ‘Lectura Dantis’ in Italian by Claudia Fernandez, professor of Italian Language at the University of Buenos Aires and of Italian Medieval Literature at the Instituto Superior del Profesorado Joaquín V. González. The reading will be dedicated to the Purgatory as […]

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2 March 2017
Brazil – Sao Paulo celebrates the international Italian Design Day

Sao Paulo celebrates the international Italian Design Day. For the event, the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) has scheduled for 8 March the screening of two videos on the life and 60 year-long professional experience of Vico Magistretti, one of the leading figures of Italian architecture and design in the 20th century. The event is organised […]

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27 February 2017
Italian Economic Diplomacy 27 February: latest news from around the world

Brazil: Ternium strengthens its presence by acquiring the Companhia Siderurgica do Atlantico The Ternium/Techint Group has acquired from the Thyssen Krupp 100% of the Companhia Siderurgica do Atlantico (CSA), headquartered in the district of Santa Cruz, in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The acquisition turns Italy into the leading steel producer in Brazil, ranking […]

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