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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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11 March 2014
Argentina – Italian courses in Buenos Aires

The Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires will begin offering its first cycle of 15-week Italian language courses on 10 March. The courses will be divided into regular, intensive and super-intensive. The Institute also offers conversation courses, children’s courses and CILS and CELI exam preparation courses. Italian being one of the most studied languages in […]

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11 March 2014
Czech Republic – Italy main protagonist at Prague Carnival

Italy was the main protagonist at the Prague Carnival. Thanks to collaboration with our embassy and Italian Cultural Institute, a cycle of theatrical spectacles and concerts was organised for the Opera Barocca Festival, with the participation of counter tenor Alessandro Giangrande and the accompaniment of the “In vino veritas” ensemble. Read more, in Italian.

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11 March 2014
Hong Kong – Carravaggio’s “Supper at Emmaus”

Caravaggio’s masterpiece “Supper at Emmaus” left Milan’s Brera museum for the first time ever for Hong Kong, where it arrived to be part of the exhibition “Light and Shade – Caravaggio, Master of the Italian Baroque” at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center from 12 March to 13 April. The painting, valued at 59 million […]

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11 March 2014
Izmir – Italian quartet enchants jazz festival

The Furio di Castri Quartet played at the opening concert the European Jazz Festival in Izmir to an enthusiastic audience of more than a thousand people, and later on in a jam session for a crowd of 400, while Italian jazz history professor at Istanbul’s Bilgi University and the festival’s musical consultant, Francesco Martinelli, held […]

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10 March 2014
Berlin – Palermo’s Teatro Massimo an icon

The Embassy of Italy in Berlin presented the 2015 season of Palermo’s Teatro Massimo as part of a broader range of promotional activities by that venue, an icon of Italian lyric excellence, within the context of the international tourism fair under way in the German capital through Sunday. Read more, in Italian.

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5 March 2014
Luxembourg – “Window on the Ghetto” – an exhibition on Rome’s Jewish quarter

An exhibition entitled “Window on the Ghetto” has opened in Luxembourg. The exhibition focuses on Rome’s Jewish quarter and on the precious fabrics produced there over the centuries and captured by photographer Araldo De Luca. It was organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Luxembourg in collaboration with the Italian Embassy, the Jewish Museum in […]

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Press Releases
3 March 2014
Giro: congratulazioni a Sorrentino per l’Oscar. Cultura e lingua strategici per ruolo Italia

“Congratulazioni a Paolo Sorrentino, che con l’Oscar vinto ieri dalla sua pellicola “La Grande Bellezza” dimostra nuovamente quanto grande sia la domanda d’Italia nel mondo”, ha dichiarato il Sottosegretario agli Affari Esteri, Mario Giro. “L’Italia attrae per il suo stile di vita, il suo vastissimo patrimonio culturale, la bellezza della sua lingua, la sua arte […]

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