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30 September 2021

Archaeological missions in Georgia, searches at Dmanisi

As part of the Italian archaeological missions in Georgia (co-financed by MAECI- the  Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation), research is continuing at the prehistoric site of Dmanisi, conducted by an international and multidisciplinary team coordinated by the National Museum of Georgia in Tblisi with the participation of the Department of Earth Sciences of […]

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29 September 2021

Young Italian illustrators on exhibition in China

An exhibition inaugurated a few days ago in Dujiangyan (Chengdu), organised in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Chongqing and entitled “Italian Excellences : the new generation of Italian illustrators for children”, was attended by the Vice Consul of Italy, Adriana Lori.   It presents works created with manual, digital, or mixed techniques […]

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28 September 2021

Hamburg: “The Happiness of the Wolf” by Paolo Cognetti

A meeting with the Italian author Paolo Cognetti will take place in Hamburg on 5 October. The centre of this cultural event will be his new novel, “The Happiness of the Wolf” (Einaudi, 2021), to be released in Italy at the end of October. Francesca Bravi will moderate and translate consecutively; Annalena Schmidt will give […]

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27 September 2021

Italian cinema at the 13th Tashkent Film Festival

A review of Italian cinema, “Italian Film Days”, has been organised by the Embassy of Italy in Tashkent as part of the 13th Tashkent International Film Festival (TIFFEST), “The Pearl of the Silk Road”, which will run from 28 September to 3 October 2021. This year’s event resumes a rich tradition that began at the […]

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27 September 2021

Bogotá, the “Audivi vocem de caelo” concert

The tenth edition of the Festival Internacional de Música Sacra de Bogotá, the most important sacred music festival in the South American country, opened on 9 September and will continue until 3 October. The Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Bogotá are participating in the event with the Audivi vocem de caelo (Hearing voices from Heaven) […]

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24 September 2021

Teheran, exhibition of the Italian-Iranian artist Akbar Mikhak

An exhibition of three collections by the artist Akbar Mikhak was set up in the gardens of the residence of the Italian Ambassador in Tehran, Giuseppe Perrone. A cultural project accompanying the presentation, on 23 September, of a new episode of the video-series produced by the Italian Embassy called “From Tehran to Rome. A Journey […]

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24 September 2021

Lisbon, the “Dante Days” initiatives kick off

The “Dante Days” initiatives organised by the Italian Embassy and the Italian Institute of Culture in Lisbon have kicked off in Portugal. Yesterday, 23 September, the Italian Ambassador in Lisbon, Carlo Formosa, inaugurated the event-packed programme dedicated to the Supreme Poet in a ceremony held at the prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The “Dante Days” will […]

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23 September 2021

Botticelli Exhibition at the Jacquemart-André Museum, Paris

An exhibition of Botticelli’s works recently opened at the Jacquemart-André Museum, in the presence of the Italian Ambassador to Paris, Teresa Castaldo. Also present at the inauguration were the Director of the Louvre, the Conservator of the Vatican Library and representatives of the lender museums of the over forty works on display. In the case […]

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22 September 2021

Rome-Lisbon Prize awarded to António Mega Ferreira

The Italian Ambassador to Portugal, Carlo Formosa, has announced that the Rome-Lisbon Prize has been awarded to Portuguese author António Mega Ferreira. The prestigious award will be presented at a ceremony, held as part of the celebrations to mark the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, on Friday 24 September 2021, at 18:30 […]

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21 September 2021

Singapore: the best of Italian cinema

The Italian Film Festival is running in Singapore until 26 September. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute, it presents the best of our contemporary cinema. The programme includes the movies that have been most successful in recent months, in their original language with English subtitles. The Italian Film Festival is considered to be one of the longest-running […]

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21 September 2021

Tehran: a video describing the capital of Iran in the 1950s

Produced by the Italian Embassy in Iran and the ICE Office in Tehran in collaboration with the historic Milanese magazine Domus and presented yesterday at the Ambassador’s Residence, Ambassador Giuseppe Perrone introduced Episode 9 of the 10-part video series “Domus Eyes on Iran”, describing the development of 1950s modern architecture in Tehran in a number […]

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20 September 2021

Algiers: meeting with the writer Samir Toumi

The Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Algiers are organising a video conference, on Wednesday, 22 September, at 17:00 local time (18:00 Italian time), with the writer Samir Toumi, to present the Italian translation of his short story “Algiers, the cry” (Barzakh, 2013), edited by Astarte Edizioni. Besides the author, the conference will […]

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