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3 February 2016
Lisbon – A journey through time at the IIC: Christian Greco illustrates Turin’s renovated Egyptian Museum

The famed 19th century scholar and Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion, who largely relied on Turin’s collections to decipher hieroglyphs, once wrote: “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin”. The Egyptian Museum of Turin, the oldest Egyptian museum in the world and second only to Cairo’s in terms of importance, has recently been completely renovated. […]

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3 February 2016
Argentina -“Zorba, the Greek” goes back on stage in Argentina in February

Argentina’s “Festival de musica en Plaza Vaticano” in Buenos Aires will present “Zorba the Greek” on Feb. 11. The performance, produced by Naples’ San Carlo Theatre with music by Mikis Theodorakis, is a two-act chorus line ballet with 22 scenes designed by Lorca Massine in 1988. “Zorba the Greek” was inspired by the celebrated novel […]

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3 February 2016
Bucharest – Roma Tre University presents Romania travel guide

The Roma Tre University presented the first volume of the e-book series entitled “Invitation to Travel” dedicated to Romania in the Auditorium of the University of Bucharest Central Library on Tuesday. The presentation, organised by the Italian Embassy in partnership with the Infoeuropa Centre of the Romanian Foreign Ministry, was attended by a large number […]

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2 February 2016
Barcelona – Music, Francesco Guccini celebrated at the Artesà Tradicionarius Centre

Just for an evening, put four exceptional characters to talk around a table, like the singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini; Carlo Petrini, the agnostic whom Pope Francis asked to prepare the preface for the “Laudato si’” encyclical, founder of Slow Food, Terra Madre, the University of Food Sciences of Pollenzo, the Turin Salone del Gusto; Sergio Staino, […]

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1 February 2016
Melbourne – University, Turin Polytechnic cooperates with Australia

“The collaboration between universities is one of the fundamental building blocks on which the mutual understanding of two nations sharing ideals is based. At the same time, it enables a great many young men and women to better understand a new context, building a baggage of knowledge, relations and experience that will last for many […]

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1 February 2016
Italy-Mexico: Heritage Science takes centre stage in Mexico

The “Study, conservation and restoration of cultural and archaeological heritage: technologies and research infrastructure for Heritage Science” will be discussed during a conference by the same title on Feb. 2 and 3 in Mexico City. The event is the second of three scientific meetings organised by the Italian embassy in partnership with the National Research […]

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1 February 2016
Stockholm – “City of Soul”, the image of Rome in travel literature

There is an immense quantity of literature on the city of Rome, its history and beauty. The “Cittá Eterna”, or Eternal City, that is Rome, as it is experienced and told by writers, is at the centre of a meeting scheduled for Thursday February 4 (at 6pm) at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm. Organised […]

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1 February 2016
De Luca new Director-General for the Promotion of the Italian Economic System

Vincenzo De Luca took office on 1 February 2016 as Director-General for the Promotion of the Italian Economic System after having served in the same Directorate General as Deputy Director-General and Central Director for the Internationalisation of the Italian Economic System and of the autonomous local authorities (since January 2014). He has been a career […]

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29 January 2016
New York – Emiliano Ponzi and Olimpia Zagnoli draw “An American Story”

“Una Storia Americana” (“An American Story”) is the title of an exhibition hosted from 30 January to 11 March at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. The show will focus on a selection of works produced over the past five years by Italian illustrators Emiliano Ponzi and Olimpia Zagnoli. These artists are two of […]

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29 January 2016
Lisbon – “Ithaca”, the art of Enzo De Leonibus in Portugal

Luisa Violo, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon, presented the exhibition “Ithaca” by the artist Enzo De Leonibus: “The image chosen as the emblem of the exhibition presents us with a question: Who is really in the cage? What is the cage for? To stop the birds from flying off or rather so […]

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