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Diplomatic Network
17 February 2020
London: parade of stars to remember Zeffirelli

The great Maggie Smith, but also Jeremy Irons, Robert Powel and many other important Shakespearean actors joined the invitation of the Italian Ambassador in London, Raffaele Trombetta, who organized an evening to honour the memory of Franco Zeffirelli.  Since the 1960s, it was London that consecrated the international success of the Florentine master, the magnificent […]

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Events
13 February 2020
Farnesina Collection: artists meet visitors

  The usual appointment on the last Friday of the month with the Farnesina Collection is enriched this month by a new initiative. On February 28th, the guided tour of the outstanding contemporary art collection will be preceded by a meeting with the authors of one of the last works acquired.                                      Salvatore Iaconesi and Oriana […]

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Diplomatic Network
13 February 2020
Turin and Giugiaro guests of honor at Madrid Design Festival

Turin is the guest of honour of the Madrid Design Festival in the Spanish capital until February 20, 2020. The only Italian representative among the “UNESCO creative cities for design” brings to this vital appointment its history of design and creative innovation, technological innovation for mobility and automotive. And it does so with a series […]

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Diplomatic Network
13 February 2020
From Fabriano to Tunis, “ La Carta tra arte e consevazione” (Paper between art and consevation)

The main objective of the exhibition “La Carta tra arte e conservazione”, opening today at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie, is promoting the image of the Marche Region abroad with one of its best-known excellence, the “Fabriano paper”. The exhibition, which will remain open until 22 February, is the result of a collaboration between various […]

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Diplomatic Network
12 February 2020
The Italians of Pere Lachaise, a project to remember them

“The Italy of Pere Lachaise. Extraordinary lives of the Italians of France and the French of Italy”, a project that intertwines memory, culture, lives and two countries, Italy and France, united by centuries-old ties. The project brings together the stories of 61 Italians or French of Italian origin buried at Pere Lachaise, the famous monumental […]

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Diplomatic Network
11 February 2020
Brussels: a comic strip to tell the story of Italian emigration

A comic strip to tell children about a chapter of Italian immigration. ‘An Important Story. 70 years of Italian immigration in Belgium and more’ is the title of the work, funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and realised by the Italian-Belgian designer Antonio Cossu, retracing the years of Italian immigration from 1946 to present […]

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Diplomatic Network
10 February 2020
London: cinema Made in Italy festival

The usual Made in Italy film festival returns to London. The Lumière cinema in South Kensington, curated by the Istituto Luce-Cinecittà in Rome and with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in London, will offer a programme that includes recently produced films as well as film classics. It begins with IF ONLY (Magari) by […]

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Diplomatic Network
10 February 2020
Thessaloniki: Fine Notte Exhibition of the Italian sculptor Finotti

It opened last February 7th in Thessaloniki, at the presence of the Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, a great exhibition of the Italian sculptor Novello Finotti. The exhibition (“Fine Notte. Το τέλος της νύχτας”) hosted by the Teloglion Foundation and organized as part of the “Tempo Forte Italia Ελλάδα 2020” initiative of the Italian Embassy […]

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Diplomatic Network
5 February 2020
Myanmar: the great music of Italy comes to Yangon

The “2020 Cultural Season”, promoted and organised by the Italian Embassy in Yangon, was inaugurated on 31 January with a concert entitled “When the piano meets the oboe”. This initiative is part of a series of events designed to present the Burmese public with a rich and diversified panorama of Italian music.  The Maestros Alberto […]

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Press Releases
5 February 2020
Ms Sereni meets the members of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Near Eastern

This morning, at the Farnesina, Deputy Minister Marina Sereni met the members of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Near Eastern of La Sapienza University of Rome.  This Mission is led by Professor Paolo Matthiae, who, since 1964, has been leading the excavation that brought to light the remains of the ancient city of Ebla, Syria. […]

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Diplomatic Network
4 February 2020
Stockholm: Italy takes part in the Design Week

For the second year running, the Italian Institute of Culture in Stockholm will participate in the Stockholm Design Week, the most important design event in Sweden. Three evenings will be dedicated to the excellence of Italian design, past and present. The programme of events opens with Design Diplomacy, encouraging the design community to engage in […]

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Diplomatic Network
4 February 2020
Opening of the travelling exhibition for the “Centenary of Vico Magistretti”

In collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the network of Italian Institutes of Culture, the Vico Magistretti Foundation, Study and Museum has presented to a worldwide audience the exhibition for the “Centenary of Vico Magistretti”, to celebrate 100 years since the birth of this great Italian designer and architect, curated […]

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