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19 January 2017
China: Chefs participating in the Week of Italian Cuisine receive awards

Italian institutions in China have awarded the chefs who participated in the events organised during the Week of Italian Cuisine and for the initiative “A future for Amatrice” dedicated to communities affected by the earthquake of Aug. 24.The event was organised by the Italian Embassy to China and the Italian Chamber of Commerce in China, […]

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19 January 2017
Chile – “El oro no se oxida” exhibition by Pamela Pintus opens in Santiago

The Italian Cultural Institute in Santiago is hosting the exhibition “El oro no se oxida” (“Gold does not rust”) by Italian artist Panela Pintu, which will run until 23 February. The exhibit, promoted by the Italian Embassy in Chile, the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) and Sinopsis Australis, is curated by Carmelo Cipriani. The artist narrates […]

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18 January 2017
Finland – Enit makes a comeback at the Travel & Tourism Trade Fair

‎Enit, Italy’s National Tourism Agency, will be back at the next Travel & Tourism Trade Fair (Matka, 19-22 January 2017), after an absence of nine years. A major event in the tourism industry of Northern Europe, in 2016 Matka recorded 66,794 visitors, of which 13,700 were tour operators. Enit’s comeback on the Finnish market in […]

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18 January 2017
Italian Baroque feasts ‘revamped’ in Lisbon

The “Festa Barocca” (“Baroque Feast”) exhibition, a journey through the protocol milestones of old feasts held at Italian Royal Courts, which began in the Renaissance and became even more flamboyant during the Baroque period, will open at Lisbon’s Palacio Nacional da Ajuda on Thursday. The exhibition narrates Italian culture in a homage to Portugal, being […]

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17 January 2017
Spain – Design, “ITmakES” promotes new know-how between Italy and Spain

In order to support new Made in Italy products in Spain, the Italian Embassy in Madrid is launching a series of projects entitled “ITmakesES”. The initiative, which has enjoyed the support of all the Italian business institutions in Spain, stems from the creative contaminations that have come about between Italian and Spanish designers, creatives, makers […]

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16 January 2017
Argentina – Concert by Elisa Iovele-Roberto Brandolisio duo

After the success recorded in 2016, the “Suono Italiano-Friuli in Musica” (“Italian Sound-Friuli in Music”) project promoted in Argentina by the Friuli Venezia-Giulia Region in conjunction with the Italian National Music Committee, is scheduled to continue into 2017. The Italian Cultural Institute in Córdoba, in partnership with the Councillorship for Culture of the Province of […]

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13 January 2017
Colombia – Author Iacopo Barison participates in the Hay Festival

The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Bogotá announces that the twelfth Hay Festival in Cartagena de Indias, taking place from 26 to 29 January, will also be attended by Italian author Iacopo Barison. Major literary figures including Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature 2010), Simon Sebag Montefiore, Andrea Wulf, Hisham Matar, Phil Manzanera, Carmen […]

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13 January 2017
Austria – From Visconti to Tornatore, Sicily in the movies

Many Italian films have Sicily as their common denominator, including The Earth Trembles by Luchino Visconti, Respiro by Emanuele Crialese, Forever Mery by Marco Risi and Cinema Paradiso by Giuseppe Tornatore. Sicily is an island of contradictions – a landing stage for thousands of migrants and a reflection of the poverty of southern Italy, but also a […]

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