This year Ferrari fans will once again have the opportunity to meet in Ottawa at the residence of the Italian Ambassador Gian Lorenzo Cornado, to celebrate the 11th edition of the FCA Ottawa Ferrari Festival. The event has been organised by the Ferrari Club of America – Ottawa Chapter from June 17 to 19, and […]
Read moreItalian musical talent will be on stage in California with a performance of pianist and composer Francesco Taskayali at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Los Angeles on Tuesday. The Institute is contributing to the events promoted by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism and to the worldwide celebrations for the Fete de […]
Read moreThe arrival of the Juno mission around Jupiter, expected on July 4th 2016, will be another success of the long-standing cooperation in space exploration between the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and NASA. The extremely successful partnership of both the Cassini mission, devoted to the exploration of the Saturn system, and of the Juno mission, carried […]
Read moreProfessionals in the area of technological innovation, ingenious minds and young talents are the guest stars of “Meet the New Italians of New York”, a series of meetings hosted at the Italian Consulate General in New York (690 Park Avenue). “Meet the New Italians of New York” is a project promoted and sponsored by the […]
Read moreThe Foreign Ministry hails Italy’s haute cuisine around the world and Italian haute cuisine at the top of world rankings. The “Osteria Francescana” restaurant in Modena – Italy’s first since the award was created – was elected the best restaurant in the world in the 2016 edition of “The World’s 50 Best Restaurants”, the prestigious […]
Read moreItaly exports, on average, 130,000 tonnes of olive oil every year to the United States. Unaprol (Italy’s olive oil consortium of producers) announced that the U.S. is the best market and is worth 1.3 billion euros in exports. San Francisco will host a event on one of the most popular products of Italian excellence. The […]
Read more“Forza azzurri” (“Go Italy!”) is the cry that in Italy – and everywhere else in the world where there are Italians – will rise in support of Antonio Conte and the Italy team playing in the 2016 UEFA European Championship which kicked off in France today. The same cry will echo in the auditorium of […]
Read moreThe protection of cultural and human heritage is again taking centre-stage at the Italian embassy in Washington, with two events scheduled for the end of May. On May 25, the embassy hosted Christian Greco, the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin, for a conference on the experience of the museum in involving local communities […]
Read moreThe Friuli Venezia Giulia Region’s academic and research institutes focused on new partnership opportunities with Boston’s prestigious MIT-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (founded by geologist William Barton Rogers in 1861) in the last stop of the economic and institutional mission carried out in the United States. The mission was led by the Region’s President, Debora Serracchiani. Accompanied […]
Read moreToday in Montreal, focus will be placed on the protection of cultural, historic and archaeological heritage and on the trafficking of art. In parallel with the art exhibition entitled “Pompeii, a City of Rome” (“Pompei, una citta’ romana”) hosted at Montreal’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) has organised, for 25 […]
Read moreThe partnership between the Italian Embassy in the United States and Eduitalia, an association of 80 certified schools and universities offering Italian language courses for foreign students in Italy, aims to promote the Italian language and culture in the United States. Thanks to this partnership, 22 scholarships will be awarded to eligible students (namely those […]
Read more“This is a celebration we specially have at heart, not only because it gives us the opportunity to get people better acquainted with Italy and the Italian Embassy, but also because it is Europe Day,” said Armando Varricchio, the Italian Ambassador in Washington. Indeed, everything is ready for the celebration of Europe Day on Saturday, […]
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