This site uses technical (necessary) and analytics cookies.
By continuing to browse, you agree to the use of cookies.

Image headerAmerica Latina e Caraibi

America Latina e Caraibi

In detail
14 April 2016
Argentina – Fifth edition of the Lucio Fontana Award

The fifth edition of the Lucio Fontana Award is about to kick off in Argentina. The event is organised by the Italian Consulate General in Buenos Aires in partnership with Pirelli Neumaticos S.A.I.C. The contest is open to emerging artists of Italian origin residing in Argentina. The contest winners will be offered the possibility of […]

Read more
In detail
12 April 2016
Lima – ‘Italian Glamour’ fashion exhibition arrives in Peru

The exhibition “Italian Glamour” will be presented in Lima by Gestión Cultural Iberoamericana and the Pedro and Angelica de Osma Gildemeister Foundation under the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Lima and the Ministry of Culture of Peru, as well as the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) and various Italian and local businesses. The show, […]

Read more
In detail
11 April 2016
Ue – In Argentina focus sul “Manifesto di Ventotene”

Altiero Spinelli, l’ispiratore dell’idea europeista, sara’ protagonista in Argentina. In occasione del 30esimo anniversario della sua morte, si illustrera’ il valore storico, politico e culturale del “Manifesto di Ventotene”, fondamentale documento per la nascita dell’Europa. L’iniziativa e’ organizzata dall’Istituto italiano di cultura (Iic) di Buenos Aires il 18 aprile, nell’ambito delle Giornate Cuia in Argentina […]

Read more
In detail
8 April 2016
Italy-Mexico – Making an effort to boost cooperation

The Italian Ambassador to Mexico, Alessandro Busacca, is continuing his meetings with the country’s institutions to take stock of multi-sectoral bilateral relations and evaluate how best to implement them. The diplomat attended a meeting with the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress. Chaired by Victor Georgiana, the […]

Read more
In detail
7 April 2016
Argentina – Focus on Galileo Galilei: The Man who Stopped the Sun

A series of meetings on “Italian scientists” has opened in Buenos Aires.  Sponsored by the Institute of Italian Culture (IIC), the first meeting will focus on “Galileo Galilei, the man who stopped the sun” and is organised by researcher Francesca Battista. As reported on the Institute’s website, perhaps the world’s most famous Italian scientist, Galileo […]

Read more
In detail
6 April 2016
Panama – Italy donates 100 football uniforms to St. Kitts and Nevis

The Italian government, through its honorary consul Ernest Amory, donated 100 football uniforms to St. Kitts and Nevis. The uniforms were supplied by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). The presentation took place at a ceremony that was attended – in addition to the consul – by the Minister of Agriculture and Health, Eugene Hamilton. Over […]

Read more
In detail
5 April 2016
Santiago – Leonardo’s Codex Urbinus to open “Encounters 1” project

“Encounters 1”, the annual exhibition project of the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Santiago, Chile, is due to open with the show “Urbinus Codex” by sculptor Franco Lillo on April 5. “Encounters 1”, an initiative sponsored by the Consejo de la Cultura y de las Artes (National Council for Culture and Arts), aims at […]

Read more
In detail
1 April 2016
Mexico – EU diplomats take stock of cooperation

The heads of mission of the European Union met with the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, chaired by MP Victor Giorgana. Italy was represented by its ambassador in Mexico City, Alessandro Busacca. The focus of the meeting’s agenda was on the progress achieved and future developments in the relations between Mexico […]

Read more
In detail
31 March 2016
Argentina – Cultural heritage conservation takes centre stage

The 4th International Meeting on Preventive and Interventive Conservation in Museums, Archives and Libraries will be held in Buenos Aires from Apr. 4 to 7. The event, organised by the National History Museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution (Museo Histórico Nacional del Cabildo y de la Revolución de Mayo) in partnership with the […]

Read more
In detail
30 March 2016
Chile – Archiart celebrates Giuseppe Rondizzoni

An exhibition on Giuseppe Rondizzoni, a Napoleonic soldier of Italian origin, has opened in Santiago, Chile. Entitled “Giuseppe Rondizzoni, a Hero”, the exhibition looks at the life a man who directly participated in the struggle for Chilean independence from 1816, when he travelled with General Jose Miguel Carrera to South America on the corvette Clifton. […]

Read more
In detail
29 March 2016
Argentina, limelight on explorer Sebastiano Caboto in Buenos Aires

Italian diplomat Gherardo La Francesca will present his book “Sebastiano Caboto. Il primo italiano in Paraguay. Storia di un viaggio nel cuore profondo del continente americano” (“Sebastiano Caboto. The first Italian in Paraguay. History of a journey into the deep heart of the American continent”) on Apr. 13 at the Mitre Museum in Buenos Aires. […]

Read more