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Diplomatic Network
27 December 2021
Bruxelles hosts an exhibition of Nazareno Rocchetti

The Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels is hosting an exhibition of works by renowned Italian artist Nazareno Rocchetti. Painter, sculptor, ceramist and performer, Nazareno Rocchetti entered the art world in his maturity, but made up for lost time by quickly making a name for himself. Until 1999, in fact, he worked as a masseur for the […]

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Diplomatic Network
27 December 2021
The “Created in Italy” exhibition hits San Francisco

The exhibition “Created In Italy – the attitude for the impossible” makes a stop abroad for the first time at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco. Inaugurated on 17 December, the exhibition on the Italian industrial landscape, an original project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Directorate General for Cultural and […]

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Diplomatic Network
24 December 2021
The “Italian Routes” exhibition arrives in Tel Aviv

The aim of this exhibition is to transmit to the broader international public the great Italian tradition of and passion for mountain culture and mountaineering, as a means of understanding the mountain environment and the values it embodies, the importance of environmental awareness when entering a natural habitat and the attention Italy as a country […]

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Diplomatic Network
23 December 2021
In Madrid with the project “Do humans need humans?”

The Italian Institute of Culture in Madrid presented, from 17 to 19 December, a digital art event entitled “Do humans need humans?” as part of the “Navidad” program of the City of Madrid, with the sponsorship of the Italian Embassy jointly with the Conde Duque Contemporary Culture Center. The exhibition was organized by nine Italian […]

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Diplomatic Network
21 December 2021
Berlin, webinar for National Space Day

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 […]

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Diplomatic Network
20 December 2021
Prague, a book to remember Vaclav Havel

Under 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 […]

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Events
20 December 2021
Cultural Itineraries for Dialogue between Generations

With 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). […]

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Interviews
20 December 2021
Sequi: `Export and culture boom. Our Italy in the world” (Corriere della Sera)

ROME – 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 […]

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Diplomatic Network
17 December 2021
Israel: Festival of Italian comedy

The 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 […]

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Press Releases
16 December 2021
Notice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Truffle hunting and extraction on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List

This 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 […]

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Diplomatic Network
16 December 2021
Madrid, concerts and exhibitions in year-end events

The 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 […]

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Diplomatic Network
15 December 2021
Nur-Sultan: the “Diffused Museum” with works by Luisa Valentini

The 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 […]

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