Diplomazia Culturale

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31 January 2012

Santiago: Bergamo’s “Tascabile” and Cesena’s “Raffaello Sanzio” at Santiago’s Theatre Festival

Bergamo’s “Tascabile” and Cesena’s “Raffaello Sanzio” theatre companies represented Italy at the 19th “Santiago a Mil” International Theatre, Music and Dance Festival. The Festival, which took place in the Chilean capital in January 2012, is one of the country’s major cultural events. Bergamo’s Teatro Tascabile is an avant-garde company of international fame. For the Festival […]

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27 January 2012

Holocaust Memorial Day: Remembrance, so that it may never happen again Commemoration in Italy’s diplomatic missions worldwide

“In the face of absolute evil, remembrance is a duty. The Italian Parliament, one of the first in Europe, has made this day a solemn occasion for public reflection on a dark time in our history. To honour the victims of the atrocious Nazi-Fascist barbarity. And to pay homage to the many men and women […]

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Press Releases

24 January 2012

Minister Terzi meets with Emirates foreign minister Sheikh Abdallah bin Zayed Al Nayan

Minister for Foreign Affairs Terzi met today at the foreign ministry in Rome with Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdallah bin Zayed Al Nayan. The meeting’s agenda included recent events in the Middle East and Mediterranean, and it followed Minister Terzi’s participation in the Foreign Affairs Council yesterday in Brussels and his […]

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20 January 2012

Principality of Monaco: exhibition ‘Italian Style, Art and Design’ closes a success

Italian style wins over the Principality of Monaco, as confirmed at the closing of the exhibition “Italian Style, Art and Design”, promoted by the Italian Embassy in the context of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italian Unification and under the high patronage of the President of the Republic and of Monaco’s Prince Albert […]

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19 January 2012

Sofia: FMR library showcases the beauty of italy

Italy’s great artistic and natural patrimony comes to the Bulgarian public through the Fondazione Marilena Ferrari, in an exhibition of books entitled “Italian publishing showcases the beauty of Italy: the FMR library”, and will be open from 23 to 30 January 2012 at the Exhibition Hall of the Municipal Library of Sofia. The initiative has […]

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18 January 2012

Calcutta: Italy guest of the book fair

The Calcutta International Book Fair opens on 24 January, where Italy has been invited as guest of honour. With over one million participants and proceeds of nearly two million euro in books sold at every recurrence, the “Kolkata Book Fair” is India’s most important event of the kind. It takes place at this time every […]

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18 January 2012

Paris: Sarkozy inducts Umberto Eco into the “Legion d’Honneur”

In the course of a moving ceremony held at the Élysée on 13 January, French President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred the rank of Commandeur of the Legion d’Honneur on Italian writer and semiologist Umberto Eco, whose prestige and renown in France are equal to that which he enjoys in our country. To read more select ITALIANO […]

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13 January 2012

Exhibition: “tauromachia” opens in Prague: Picasso, Dalí and Goya

With the support of the Embassy of Italy in Prague and the Italian Cultural Institute, the exhibition “Tauromaquia”, curated by Serena Baccaglini of Milan’s Catholic University, opened at the Prague Town Hall (Obecni dum) and will run through 9 April. The exhibition presents a selection of works by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Francisco Goya […]

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12 January 2012

Bulgaria: architectural model-making, exhibition on the theme of tolerance

Six million burnt matches and 17 years went into the construction of a model of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Rila, Bulgaria’s most important and famous: and this is only one of many attractions offered by an architectural model exhibition entitled “Tolerance: a beacon for faith and life” that opened at the national archaeological museum […]

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2 January 2012

Cooperation: Myanmar, safeguarding cultural heritage

The Italian Cooperation recently decided to make a €400,000 contribution to UNESCO for the “Capacity building for safeguarding cultural heritage” programme in Myanmar. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the page.

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