Italy has established its first National Space Day, held on 16 December, in memory of the launch of its first satellite, the “San Marco 1”, on 15 December 1964, which made Italy the third country in the world to go beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. To celebrate National Space Day, the Italian Embassy in Berlin and […]
Read moreUnder the patronage of the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute, The Italian magazine ”Progetto RC” in Prague is publishing a book to remember Vaclav Havel, the Czech statesman, ten years after his death. The work “Václav Havel. A multi-voiced portrait of the hero of the Velvet Revolution” is a collection of interviews given […]
Read moreWith the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in the framework of the Italian Presidency Semester of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the event Cultural Itineraries for the Dialogue between Generations took place on Friday 17th December at the State High School “G. Pantaleo” of Castelvetrano (TP). […]
Read moreROME – Today and tomorrow, the XIV Conference of Italian Ambassadors is scheduled at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, with over 130 of our Heads of Missions throughout the world. The event will be opened by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and closed by the Italian President of the Council of Ministers, Mario […]
Read moreThe Festival of Italian Comedy in Israel, a film festival organised by the Tel Aviv Film Library in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Tel Aviv, brings Italian films to film libraries throughout Israel every December. The title of the 6th edition is “Comedy is finished”. Commedia all’italiana is a comic-satirical film genre of […]
Read moreThis morning Italy obtained a new prestigious recognition by UNESCO, thanks to the inscription of the “Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy: traditional knowledge and practices” in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The proclamation took place during the sixteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which […]
Read moreThe Italian Institute of Culture in Madrid has scheduled an exciting program of musical, artistic and literary events for the holiday season – starting on December 13 and running until December 19 – produced jointly with other local institutions, to be held at the Institute, the Royal Palace and Conde Duque. The initiatives included round […]
Read moreThe Embassy of Italy in Nur-Sultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, has celebrated Italian Contemporary Art Day by organising a “diffused museum” in collaboration with the Turin Gallery of Modern Art. Four works by Luisa Valentini, depicting roses, were installed in four different institutions where they will remain on display until March. “Rosa Charme” is in […]
Read moreThe first 4D virtual museum comes into being on the sites that are the symbols of the Italian cultural heritage. Promoted by the Foreign Ministry and supported by the Ministry of Culture, the prototype of the “Virtual Voyage through the Renaissance and the Renaissances of the Italian Museum” was presented yesterday, December 14, at the […]
Read moreThe Italian Cultural Institute of Tel Aviv, in collaboration with the Polytechnic of Milan, has organised a conference in Tel Aviv today at 18:30 (Italian time) entitled “Gio Ponti: the Arch-Italian”. Lecturer: Fulvio Irace, professor emeritus at the said Polytechnic. Beginning with the recent exhibition “Gio Ponti: Loving Architecture” at the Maxxi Museum in Rome, […]
Read moreAt the Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art in Chongqing, the exhibition “We Love ART. Vision and Creativity Made in Italy” was inaugurated a few days ago. It features original works by eight emerging young Italian artists. The exhibition was organized by the General Consulate of Italy in Chongqing jointly with the Italian Institute of Culture […]
Read more“The Silk Road: Contemporary Art and Artists from Italy” is the title of an exhibition of contemporary art that will be inaugurated in Tashkent tomorrow, 15 December, at the Fine Arts Gallery of Uzbekistan-NBU, one of the most prestigious museums in Uzbekistan. Agostino Pinna, Ambassador of Italy to Tashkent, stated: “The Silk Road offers a […]
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