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17 March 2014
Oman – Maison Gattinoni Made in Italy Ambassador

The Maison Gattinoni will act as “ambassador” for the Made in Italy brand at a major event on 18 March in the Sultanate of Oman, when the 2014 Spring/Summer Haute Couture Collection known as “The Cloud” will be presented. Celebrated Italian designer Guillermo Mariotto’s “Homage to Oman” dress will be first out on the runway. […]

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17 March 2014
Budapest – Meeting on “diplomacy between tradition and innovation”

“Diplomacy between Tradition and Innovation” is the theme of the meeting to be held in Budapest on 19 March. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute as part of a cycle devoted to the era of globalisation and IT, will focus on the various challenges to be faced and need for a new interpretation of the […]

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14 March 2014
From Venice to Moscow – Italian cinema moves to Russia

The Embassy of Italy in Moscow presented the 5th edition of the “From Venice to Moscow” Film Festival, an annual event held at the Italian Cultural Institute to give Russian audiences a chance to view the Italian films presented at the celebrated Venetian event. Read more, in Italian

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14 March 2014
Australia – Celebrating10 years of Milan-Melbourne twinning

The cities of Milan and Melbourne recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of their “twinning” within the context of the annual “Food & Wine Festival”, one of Australia’s most prominent, in an evening of arias from famous operas accompanied by a sampling of traditional Milanese culinary specialties. Read more, in Italian

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Press Releases
13 March 2014
Argentina: Giro, si intensifica dialogo politico tra i nostri paesi su cultura, Pmi e Expo

“E’ un piacere tornare in Argentina dopo la visita di novembre. I rapporti bilaterali sono forti e variegati, così come le opportunità di crescere insieme dei due Paesi”, ha dichiarato il Sottosegretario agli Esteri. Accompagnato da Vera Jarach, tra le fondatrici dell’associazione “Madres de Plaza de Mayo”, il Sottosegretario Giro ha visitato l’Escuela de Mecánica […]

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13 March 2014
Edinburgh – “Treasure Island”, Italians and Scots on stage together

Italian and Scottish actors joined forces for the national premier of “Treasure Island”, a production based on an adaptation of Robert L. Stevenson’s original novel by Laura Pasetti, director of the Charioteer Theatre, and which received a very warm response from the audience of the Community Regal Theatre of Bathgate, near Edinburgh.

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13 March 2014
Madrid – Homage to Scarlatti’s sonatas

The sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti were honoured in a concert by Andrea Bacchetti (pianoforte) in Madrid during the 3rd season of a cycle dedicated to the execution of the Neapolitan composer’s entire body of work. The event was organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with Union Fenosa Gas. Read more, in Italian

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13 March 2014
Cinema – Sorrentino featured at Sofia Film Festival

The International Sofia Film Festival, now in its 18th edition and on through 30 March, has a full agenda that includes a wide selection of recent Italian film production, beginning with a mini-retrospective on the work of director Paolo Sorrentino. Read more, in Italian.

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13 March 2014
Zagreb – “Sogni di carta”, de Chirico sketches

The exhibition “Sogni di Carta” at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb offers a cycle of 29 sketches from the Vittoriale degli italiani di Gardone Riviera that illustrate the collaboration in 1934 between Gabriele D’Annunzio, Luigi Pirandello and Giorgio de Chirico on the staging of D’Annunzio’s “La figlia di Jorio”, along with a selection of precious […]

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12 March 2014
Italy-Mexico – Success for the Cruzando Fronteras Festival

The recent second edition Festival Cruzando Fronteras was a great success. The festival was created last year by Italian citizen Luciano Consoli who, as president of the Fundacion Mahahual, and consists of a series of activities aimed at promoting the intersection of Italian and Mexican artistic cultures. Read more, in Italian.

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11 March 2014
Tripoli – The cities of Tripolitania “revived”

One of the richest Roman cities in the Mediterranean – Leptis Magna – lay for centuries beneath the desert sands along the coast of Libya, but has now re-emerged thanks to the efforts of Italian archaeologists. Sabratha The same goes for the beautiful Sabratha, another city in north western Libya founded by the Phoenicians and […]

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11 March 2014
Italy-Chile: Giro, excellent political relations and promising economic developments

“I am very pleased to be in Chile at this moment”, stated Under-Secretary Giro, in Santiago to attend the inauguration of Chile’s President, Michelle Bachelet. “Chile is close to Italy’s heart, a friendship born of our emigration and strengthened during the years of the coup and dictatorship, years in which Italy proved its great solidarity. […]

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