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Diplomatic Network
16 November 2021
São Paulo: a recital in honour of Enrico Caruso

To mark the centenary of the death of the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, the Italian Cultural Institute in São Paulo has organised a recital in which young artists will interpret the pieces he made famous. Organised in collaboration with the Scuola dell’Opera of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and the Cia Ópera São Paulo, […]

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Diplomatic Network
15 November 2021
EL PAcTO Annual Meeting. Panama, 8-12 November 2021

The annual meeting of El PAcCTO, the programme of technical assistance to Latin American countries established in 2017, was held in Panama from 8 to 12 November. It was financed by the European Union and Italy, through IILA, coordinates the pillar relating to cooperation in the penitentiary sector. The meeting, with the theme “The finances […]

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Diplomatic Network
15 November 2021
Third edition of the Italian Wine Fair in Brazil

The third edition of the Italian Wine Fair was held in Brazil on November 10 in the elegant setting of the Nervi Room at the Italian Embassy in Brasilia. It was a specialized event intended for a select public, curated by the International Food&Wine critic, Sueli Maestri. The twelve main importers and distributors presented over […]

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Diplomatic Network
11 November 2021
Italy at Expoqueijo Brasil 2021

Italy participated in the Expoqueijo Brasil 2021 – International Cheese Awards, the most important cheese competition in Brazil, held a few days ago in Araxà, a city in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais. The gold medal went to a cheese from the Piedmont region of Italy: Bra Duro DOP, and at the inaugural ceremony […]

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Diplomatic Network
10 November 2021
Montevideo: a conference on Anita Garibaldi

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of her birth, the Embassy of Italy in Montevideo, together with the Italian Cultural Institute, organised a conference on 4 November at the Museum of Visual Arts on the life and work of  Anita Garibaldi, the famous wife of the Italian soldier, revolutionary and politician, Giuseppe Garibaldi. This celebration of […]

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Diplomatic Network
10 November 2021
A visit to the IILA projects by the Ambassador of Italy to the Dominican Republic

The Italian Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Stefano Queirolo Palmas, recently visited the Technology Transfer and Vocational Training Project at the San Ignacio de Loyola Institute (ITESIL) in Dajabón (on the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti), which is being implemented by the International Italo-Latin American Organisation (IILA) thanks to Italian funding from the […]

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Press Releases
10 November 2021
Osa; Sereni, organizzazione che rafforza il multilateralismo

La Vice Ministra Sereni ha rappresentato oggi l’Italia al Dialogo con gli Osservatori Permanenti nel quadro della 51esima sessione dell’Assemblea Generale dell’Organizzazione degli Stati Americani (OSA) dal titolo “Towards Renewal in the Americas”. Sereni ha ricordato quanto l’Italia, Paese Osservatore dell’OSA già nel 1972, consideri essenziale il ruolo di quest’Organizzazione nel contesto regionale e internazionale. […]

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Diplomatic Network
8 November 2021
Brazil: a webinar on design

On November 5, the Consulate of Italy in Belo Horizonte and the Italian Cultural Institute in Rio de Janeiro organised a meeting on design. The initiative, entitled “Dialogue between Minas Gerais-Italy: a meeting with Chiara Alessi, Giovanna Castiglioni, and Dijon De Moraes”, took place in Italian on the Zoom platform, with simultaneous translation into Portuguese. The […]

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Diplomatic Network
5 November 2021
Lima: new lighting for the Italian Museum

The Italian Embassy in Lima and Enel, together with the Culture Ministry of Peru, inaugurated the new lighting system at the Museum of Italian Art in Lima, a gift of Italy to Peru on the occasion of the Bicentennial of Peruvian independence. The innovative lighting system gave new life to the façade of the building, […]

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Press Releases
31 October 2021
Minister Luigi Di Maio met the Secretary for Foreign Relations of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubòn

On the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Rome, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met the Secretary for Foreign Relations of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubòn. This meeting follows the bilateral meeting, which was held last June in Bari-Matera, on the sidelines of the Foreign-Cooperation Ministerial G20 meeting. First of all, the Minister expressed his satisfaction […]

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Press Releases
31 October 2021
Minister Di Maio’s meeting with the Foreign Minister of Brazil, Carlos Alberto Franco França

On the sidelines of the G20 Summit , Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio met Foreign Minister of Brazil Carlos Alberto Franco França. Minister Di Maio recalled the contribution provided by the Italian large community to the development of Brazil, the main Italian trading partner in Latin America, and called for a strengthening of the economic […]

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