Diplomazia Culturale

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11 July 2013

VILNIUS – “Splendours of the Renaissance” exhibition opens

“Splendours of the Renaissance”, an exhibition of costumes from the Renaissance period, has opened at the Museum of the Radvilas Palace in Vilnius, Lithuania. Organised by the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute of Vilnius in collaboration with the Mantua-based “Invito a Corte” cultural association and the Lithuanian Art Museum, the event will run […]

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10 July 2013

The MFA at work for “System Italy” – Valensise presents the 2013 Yearbook: initiatives and results

“A government department that costs the state very little” but which, in spite of the cuts, is managing to meet the growing demand for services in Italy and throughout the world. This was one of the key features to emerge from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Statistical Yearbook for 2013, edited by Sabrina Ugolini, Head […]

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10 July 2013

ITALY-SERBIA – Bilateral Protocol signed

The first Scientific and Technological Executive Protocol between Italy and Serbia has been signed in Belgrade. The agreement, which envisages 15 3-year projects for exchanges of researchers in the biomedicine, agriculture, energy and environment sectors, was signed by our Ambassador, Giuseppe Manzo, and Serbia’s Minister for Education, Science and Technological Development, Zarko Obradovic. Read more, […]

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10 July 2013

JAPAN – Michelangelo’s “Madonna of the Stairs” on display in Fukui

The exhibition on “Michelangelo: The Making of a Genius and the 500th Anniversary of the Sistine Chapel” has opened in Fukui, as part of the Year of Italy in Japan. The event, organised in collaboration with the Casa Buonarroti Foundation, has been a huge success with the media and public, with visitors arriving from all […]

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10 July 2013

SOUTH AFRICA – Italy helping to celebrate Mandela sports and culture day

Italy will be sharing the sports field in events in honour of Nelson Mandela taking place on 17 August 2013 in Soweto, where Mandela gave his first speech after his long years in prison. “Mandela Sports and Culture Day” will include a football match featuring the Italian “masters” team, who will be playing South Africa. […]

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8 July 2013

BULGARIA – italian night at the Plovdiv cultural heritage festival

It was Italian night for the opening of the first edition of the Plovdiv international cultural heritage festival, a week of events to be held from 15 to 21 July in the ancient Roman stadium of Bulgaria’s second city. Read more, in Italian.

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8 July 2013

Piranesi exhibition a success at Riga Bourse Museum

An exhibition dedicated to Giovanni Battista Piranesi recently opened to great critical and public acclaim in the Latvian capital of Riga, consisting of more than 150 watercolours and prints selected from a collection of approximately 500 works and entitled “Piranesi. Roman Antiquities”. Participants in the opening event included major personalities from artistic and cultural, diplomatic […]

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5 July 2013

MONTEVIDEO – “Made in Italy” by Ansin on display as of saturday

An exhibition of more than 35 works by Uruguayan artist Alejandro Ansin, organised by the Italian embassy and cultural institute in Montevideo, opens Saturday 6 July and runs through 4 August. Read more, in Italian.

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4 July 2013

Brussels summit opens “Women Leaders in International Relations”

The Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels will hold “Women Leaders in International Relations” from 8 to 12 July, a summit organised by the Institute in collaboration with former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Women in Public Service (WIPS) and the School for Advanced Public Administration Studies (SSPA). The Summit’s focus will be the presence […]

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3 July 2013

ITALY-ARGENTINA – Vivaldi staged in Buenos Aires

A concert by Milan’s La Scala Chamber Orchestra, one of the most important in Italy, will be held on 5 July in Buenos Aires, featuring the work of Vivaldi. The event will be held at the Teatro Coliseo. Read more in Italian.

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3 July 2013

Italian students in NY for cultural exchange

A group of Italian women students completed a cultural exchange programme in New York run by the National Organization of Italian American Women (NOIAW)in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry. In alternate years the programme hosts Italian women in New York and American women in Rome. Six Architecture students and one in History of Art This […]

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Press Releases

2 July 2013

Under-Secretary Giro hails Italy’s election to the UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property

Italy was elected yesterday to a 4-year seat on the newly-constituted Consultative Committee of the UNESCO Convention (1970)on the Means ofProhibitingand Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. “This is a system success that rewards the many years of commitment by the MFA, MiBAC and the Carabinieri Corps for the […]

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