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America Latina e Caraibi

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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. […]

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25 March 2016
Brazil – “Casa Rio – Embaixada Brasileira de Negocios” opens in Rio

The “Casa Rio – Embaixada Brasileira de Negocios” project, a government programme to attract investment and encourage business networking in the host cities of the 2016 Olympic Games has been officially opened in Rio de Janeiro. The project is a follow-up of the investment promotions carried out at the “Rio conferences” in London 2012 and […]

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23 March 2016
Colombia – Italy too among the “European Professors”

‎The Universidad del Norte of the Colombian city of Barranquilla this year held the 19th edition of the “Cattedra Europa” (“European Professors”). The event, organised for the 50th anniversary of the birth of the University, was attended by over 200 lecturers from all over the world. The Country invited for this year’s edition was the […]

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18 March 2016
Italian schools abroad join the International Network of UNESCO Associated Schools

Once again this year Italian state and recognised private schools abroad will be able to submit applications, by 20th April, to join the “UNESCO Associated Schools”. Enrolments increased in the 2014/2015 academic year, and so far seven Italian schools abroad have joined the international network. The UNESCO schools include: state schools in Addis Ababa, Asmara and […]

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18 March 2016
Buenos Aires – Italian art conservation experts will take centre stage in Argentina

Experts on the conservation of Italian works of art will soon take centre stage in Argentina. On the occasion of the 4th International Meeting on Preventive and Interventive Conservation in Museums, Archives and Libraries, the Museo Histórico Nacional del Cabildo of Buenos Aires – in conjunction with the Italian Institute of Culture – has scheduled two […]

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17 March 2016
Chile – “Italian Masters of Graphic Design” take centre stage in Santiago

“Italian Masters of Graphic Design” (“Maestri italiani del disegno grafico”) is the title of an exhibition organised by the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Santiago, Chile, in partnership with the AIEP Universidad Andre’s Bello, which will run from 23 March to 2 April in the capital of the Latin American country. The exhibition stages […]

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