Italy will have four entries in the 8th edition of the International Human Rights Film Festival to be held in Tirana, Albania from 23 to 29 September. Read more, in Italian
Read moreThree full days of events – 18, 19 and 20 October – to offer a 360° panorama on Italy, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Budapest: the culture, flavor, tradition and ingenuity of Made in Italy that give Italy its image around the world. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreItaly is a contributor to the restoration of Kabul’s historic Dilkush Palace – designed by British architect Christopher Finlayson for Emir Habibullah and built between 1914 and 1917 – with artistic tiles produced by Manifatture Sottosasso of Faenza, which will be used to complete the project that began in 2012. Read more, in Italian
Read moreItaly is “growing” in western Japan thanks to our diplomatic network. Consul General Marco Lombardi recently hosted a promotional event for Ferrari spumante at his residence. President of Cantine Ferrari Matteo Lunelli and approximately 150 food/wine sector operators attended a product tasting event. Mayor of Kobe Tatsuo Yada then invited Ferrari to participate in two […]
Read moreAn exhibition dedicated to Raffaello Sanzio that opened in Sofia, Bulgaria included the painting “St. Catherine in Alexandria” along with ten 17th, 18th and 19th century prints of his most famous works, on loan from the Accademia Raffaello in Urbino. The event was organised by the City of Sofia, the Marches region, the city of […]
Read more“Architecture and Identity”, jointly organised by the Italian Consulate General and the PI-Philly (Italian Professionals in Philadelphia) association, with the participation of American and Italian “archi-stars” Peter Bohlin – designer of, among other things, the New York Apple Store’s glass cube, and Paolo Desideri, noted for Rome’s new Tiburtina railway station, took place over recent […]
Read moreThe Italian Embassy in Paris, under Ambassador Giandomenico Magliano, held an open house to celebrate European Heritage Days. Nearly 5,000 enthusiastic visitors were able to admire the Hôtel della Rochefaucault-Doudeauville, built between 1732 and 1733 on the grounds of the Convalescent Hospital, which underwent various transformations over the centuries to finally become the Louis XV-style […]
Read moreA full calendar of events in Slovakia for the celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi: Kosice, 2013 European Capital of Culture will host a concert featuring a repertoire of Verdi works ranging from Don Carlo, to MacBeth to the Sicilian Vespers, and is fruit of a promising bilateral musical collaboration between […]
Read moreFor the first time ever, the Florentine master’s “Annunciation” will be on display for 4 months at the Museum of Israel in Jerusalem, thanks to the support of the Embassy of Italy in Tel Aviv, Awaiting Boticelli’s “Annunciation” is a “splendid wall” in one of the most important halls of Jerusalem’s Museum of Israel. It […]
Read moreGuercino’s masterpiece “Madonna with the Blessing Child” will be on display at the Italian embassy in Warsaw through 17 September, as a preview to an exhibition of an additional 30 works entitled “Guercino. Triumph of the Baroque”, scheduled to run from 19 September through February of next year at the National Museum in the Polish […]
Read moreDrawing and costumes from the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma will be on display at Moscow’s Pushkin Museum in an exhibition entitled “Homage to Giuseppe Verdi”. The exhibition, which enjoys support from Italian and Russian institutions and sponsors such as come Aeroflot and Banca Intesa, will run until 29 September 2013. Read more, in Italian
Read moreItaly’s arts are once again being showcased in Japan. The exhibitions on Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci, the tour by the Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia and many other Italian cultural events have been a great success. And now “Italy in Japan 2013” continues with a tour by Milan’s Teatro Alla Scala and exhibitions […]
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