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14 November 2019

Italian Cuisine Week: Turkey, Michelin-star winning chefs and health

This year, Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir will host a rich calendar of events with 40 initiatives on education, culture and the promotion of the Italian gastronomic heritage organised by Italy’s diplomatic network for the 4th Italian Cuisine Week in the World (18-24 November). Two renowned Michelin-star winning chefs – the President of the “Ambassadors of […]

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13 November 2019

​’The true Da Vinci Code’ with Odifreddi in Sydney

Today Italian mathematician and science writer, Piergiorgio Odifreddi, concluded his lectures promoted  by the Italian Embassy in Canberra, with a talk entitled “The true Da Vinci Code” organized by the Australian National University. The lecture took the audience on a journey into the world of Leonardo the mathematician. The same lecture was also held at […]

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13 November 2019

Italian Cuisine Week: Lisbon hosts a workshop on Cilento specialties

To celebrate the Italian Cuisine Week in the World, the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon organised a rich programme of events ranging from lectures to cooking workshops, tastings of typical regional products and events promoting enogastronomic tourism to discover local cultures, starting with the Mediterranean Diet as a healthy lifestyle and balanced eating model within […]

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12 November 2019

Algiers: the Italian Language Takes Center Stage at the Book Fair

Italian as a language of communication and connection between different cultures was the theme of a crowded debate organized by the Embassy of Italy in Algiers, on the occasion of the 24th edition of the “Algiers International Book Fair”, the main cultural event in the North African country. The meeting was dedicated to ”The literary […]

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11 November 2019

“Leonardo Opera Omnia” in Yangon

On 8 November, the “Leonardo Opera Omnia” Exhibition opened in Yangon at the presence of eminent personalities from the local political, economic and cultural world. It was the very first Exhibition of this importance ever to be organised by Italy in Myanmar from the advent of the dictatorship in 1962 to date. The exhibition, which […]

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11 November 2019

Italian Cuisine Week: cooking classes and wine tasting in Chongqing

The Italian Consulate General in Chongqing has set out an intense agenda of events to celebrate the Italian Cuisine Week in China: interactive activities such as cooking classes in which to illustrate how to prepare the most popular Italian recipes with the right ingredients, cooking shows and food and wine tasting events to promote the […]

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8 November 2019

The Week of Italian Cuisine: Italian aperitifs in Tokyo​

The restaurants and pizzerias in Tokyo and in many other places across Japan are celebrating the week of Italian cuisine and for the occasion they have included in their menus aperitifs and dishes from our culinary tradition. The initiative with its rich program of events was presented by the Italian Ambassador, Giorgio Starace, who pointed […]

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8 November 2019

Vietnam: kindergartens that adopt the Reggio Children approach​

Kindergartens based on the Reggio Children approach are to be set up in Vietnam. The method, conceived in Italy by Loris Malaguzzi in the immediate post-war period, considers the child as an individual and bearer of rights who learns and grows in relationship with others producing knowledge and communicating it to the outside world through […]

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8 November 2019

“Story of a bunch of grapes that wanted to make wine”

Within the framework of the activities resulting from the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding between the Farnesina and the Reggio Children Foundation, Centro Loris Malaguzzi, under which the “Taste Day” was promoted in Italian schools abroad on the occasion of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the world, the Italian private school of Tirana, established […]

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8 November 2019

‘Il pasto della tarantola’ in Helsinki to celebrate the Italian Cuisine Week

Within the framework of the 4th Italian Cuisine Week in the World, the performance “Il pasto della tarantola”, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in partnership with the Cantieri Teatrali Koreja, was staged at the Cable Factory-Performance Sirkus in Helsinki on 5-6 November. With a skilful mix of artistic performances and the presentation of typical […]

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7 November 2019

Italian Cuisine Week: ‘Pizza for Peace’ in Niger

The Italian Embassy in Niamey opened the Italian Cuisine Week in Niger with the “Pizza for Peace” project. Antonio Cera’s “Fornosammarco”, a point of excellence of the Apulia Region, organised a course for the making of bread and pizza dough for a group of refugee women hosted at the UNHCR centre and Nigerien women beneficiaries of […]

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7 November 2019

Tourism: Genoa relaunches partnership prospects with London

The Italian Ambassador in London, Raffaele Trombetta, met with the Mayor of Genoa, Marco Bucci, who was accompanied by Barbara Grosso and Laura Gaggero, City Councillors for Culture and Sports respectively. The Italian delegation travelled to London to support the participation of the Liguria region and its major actors in the field of travel and […]

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