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Press Releases

19 June 2017

Presentation of the 2017-2022 Strategic Plan for Tourism – Alfano: “Italy is the most photographed country on Instagram.”

“Italy is the most photographed country on Instagram. It is a country where everybody wants to go to sooner or later, to enjoy a first-hand experience of what it means “Vivere all’italiana” (The Italian way of life) and enjoy our countless beauties. Tourism accounts for 11.8% of the Italian GDP and 12% in terms of […]

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14 June 2017

Open for You

The Farnesina  and its Art Collection will be open to visitors on Friday, June 30. Volunteers from the Touring Club Italiano will guide visitors through the building. Make your reservation here, to get a priority entrance to the new space and installations in progress dedicated to artists who use photography as a means of expression.

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14 June 2017

Tunisia – Palais Ennejma Ezzahra hosts Barocco Italiano and Rêverie Napolitaine

An Italian soiree will take place at Sidi Bou Said, in the splendid Palace  Ennejma Ezzahra, on June 21 on the occasion of the “Festa della Musica”,   a concert by the Ensemble Partenope, with Salvatore Morra. The Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis and the Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music will perform in the beautifully restored […]

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14 June 2017

Australia – The stories of 31 Italo-Australian artists collected in one volume entitled ‘Ritratti’ (Portraits)

The book, published by the Italian Consulate in Melbourne, narrates the creative career  of 31 Italo-Australian artists. The group of creative artists of Italian origin, based in Melbourne, was selected according to their brilliant profiles which, all together, offer an extremely varied picture. Some worked on storytelling, others focused on the visual impact, some used […]

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14 June 2017

“Due ma non Due” by Clara Salina on show

“Due ma non Due” (“Two but not Two”) is the title of the double installation to be displayed at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Santiago in Chile from 27 June to 1 August. The installation, by Italian artist Clara Salina, tries to cast light on the cycle in which we are trapped and of […]

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14 June 2017

Italianism, the Design of the Word. The Word of Designers

On Thursday, 15 June 2017, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the Farnesina hosted the 4th edition of the “Italianism” project entitled “Il design della parola. La parola ai designer” (“The Design of the Word. The Word of Designers”). “The initiative –  said Minister Alfano – is meant to capitalise on the relationship between our […]

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Accreditation Notices

13 June 2017

PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTICE – Thursday, 15 June 2017, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the Farnesina will host the 4th edition of the “Italianism” project entitled “The Design of the Word. The Word of Designers”

Alfano: “Let us capitalise on the relationship between our language, Italian creativity and the world of young and emerging designers “ On Thursday, 15 June 2017, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the Farnesina will host the 4th edition of the “Italianism” project entitled “Il design della parola. La parola ai designer” (“The Design of the Word. The Word of Designers”). […]

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13 June 2017

Brazil – Cinema, “50 Years without Totò”: the IIC pays tribute to the Prince of Laughter

Mask, marionette, comedy icon: the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Sao Paulo pays tribute to the “Prince of Laughter”. On the 50th anniversary of the death of the great Antonio de Curtis, a.k.a. Totò, on 15 April 1967, and as part of the “50 anni senza Totò” (“50 Years without Totò”) cycle of events dedicated to […]

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13 June 2017

Italy and Mexico intensify cultural cooperation

Italy is bolstering its cooperation with Mexico in the field of culture. Italian Ambassador to Mexico, Luigi Maccotta, recently had a long and cordial meeting with the Secretary of Culture, Maria Cristina García Cepeda. The Ambassador was accompanied by the director of the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Mexico City, Marco Marica, and by the […]

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13 June 2017

Italy at the Shanghai International Film Festival​

Anybody who knows the Shanghai International Film Festival (abbreviated as SIFF) knows that it is one of Asia’s major film festivals. This year the Festival, celebrating its twentieth edition, will run from 17 to 26 June in all the city’s major cinema theatres. Italy too will be reserved a space for its exlusive use. This […]

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12 June 2017

Austria – Festival of Music, Italy in Austria with the music of Bellini, Mozart and Rossini

Francesca Dego (violin) and Francesca Leonardi (piano) are preparing to perform in Vienna for the European Festival of Music. The two promising Italian talents, with a back catalogue of recordings for the prestigious German record label Deutsce Grammophon, which specialises in the production of classical music recordings – will give a concert at 7.00 p.m. […]

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12 June 2017

Exhibitions, all eyes on Enrico Prampolini’s drawings

Enrico Prampolini was a painter, sculptor, scenographer, choreographer, architect and designer, an artist who created advertising, posters, photo-montages and large scale murals. His aim, as he said himself, was to express the extreme latitudes of the introspective world. Poland is paying tribute  to him today by hosting an exhibition – with the support of the […]

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