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22 May 2017
Davide Tranchina’s revealing snapshots of the island of Montecristo

Situated in the Tyrrhenian Sea and part of the Tuscan Archipelago, Montecristo is one of the wildest and inaccessible Italian islands. In his “40 days and 40 nights in Montecristo” photographic exhibition, Davide Tranchina reveals a land as fascinating as it is enigmatic. Curated by Irene Campolini and Luca Panaro, the exhibition is due to […]

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19 May 2017
Portugal – ‘Treasures of the Vatican Museums’ exhibition lands in Lisbon

Lisbon’s Museu Nacional de Arte Antica has organised the exhibition “Madonna. Tesouros dos Museos do Vaticano”, with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. The event will open on May 19, and will run until September 10. The curators are Alessandra Rodolfo and Jose’ Alberto Seabra Carvalho. This is the first time that a selection […]

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19 May 2017
United States – “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema” event to open with film “Indivisible”

The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City will soon host “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema”,  the major film festival dedicated to Italian contemporary cinema in the United States. The Festival’s 17th edition will run from 1 to 7 June, 2017  and offer New York audiences a selection of the most important Italian films of 2016. The opening night will feature […]

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19 May 2017
Serbia offers a full immersion in the music of Puccini

The Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade, in association with the National Theatre of Belgrade, presented a concert-lesson dedicated to Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. The guest of the evening was Milan-born Maestro Alberto Veronesi, one of Italy’s most renowned Italian orchestra conductors specialised in Puccini’s repertory and president of the Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago. […]

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17 May 2017
10th “Dolce vitaj” Italian festival

Federico Albanese and his piano will perform in Slovakia for the first time.  The tour that is taking him across Europe will make a stop in Bratislava on Monday, 5 June, at the Primate’s Palace. Albanese’s concert is organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Bratislava in partnership with the Hlavné mesto SR Bratislava and […]

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15 May 2017
Finland – Composer Antonio Coppola to perform in Helsinki in May

The Italian composer and orchestra conductor, Antonio Coppola, will be in Helsinki next week. He will accompany on the piano the screening of two major films in the history of Finnish cinema. Victor Sjostrom’s ‘The Wind’ (1928) will be the first film screened on Monday 15 May at Cinema Orion. It will be followed by […]

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15 May 2017
Spain – “Little Utopias”: Italy’s new style in architecture on show in Spain

 Italian architecture in the third millennium, spanning from its history to research and innovation: “Little Utopias”, an exhibition on Italy’s “new” style in architecture was presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Maxxi National Museum of 21st Century Art of Rome, the Universidad de Navarra […]

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15 May 2017
Asunción Fashion Week

Grande successo di pubblico e mediatico ha riscosso la Celebrazione del Design Italiano, organizzata dall’Ambasciata d’Italia in Paraguay nell’ambito dell’Asuncion Fashion Week.  L’evento, diretto ad un pubblico di addetti ai lavori, si è realizzato nei giardini dell’Ambasciata, trasformati, per l’occasione, in splendida passerella per i grandi Marchi del nostro Design come Versace, Valentino, Pucci, Roberto […]

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15 May 2017
Asunción Fashion Week

The Celebrations of Italian Design, organised by the Italian Embassy in Paraguay for the Asuncion Fashion Week, was a great public and media success. The event, which targeted professionals in the fashion sector, was held in the Embassy’s gardens which, for the occasion, formed the backdrop to the catwalk of the major brands of Italian […]

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Press Releases
13 May 2017
Alfano: “The Italian Language reaffirmed at European Institution level”

“For the first, time Italian is one of the restricted group of languages used in the final selection of European Union officials,” announced Foreign Minister, Angelino Alfano. The news was confirmed by the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) in a note disclosing data on the second language known, at least at B2 level, by the […]

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