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Press Releases
31 May 2014
Expo 2015: Sottosegretario Della Vedova in Corea del Sud

Nell’ambito delle iniziative del Governo italiano per la promozione di Expo 2015, il Sottosegretario agli Esteri Benedetto Della Vedova sarà in Corea del Sud da domenica primo giugno a martedì 3 giugno. Il pomeriggio del 2 giugno avrà un incontro bilaterale con il Vice Ministro per gli Affari Esteri, Cho Tae-yong. Nella mattinata dello stesso […]

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30 May 2014
Buenos Aires – Bollani in Argentina for Verano Italiano

Noted jazz pianist Stefano Bollani will be performing in Buenos Aires on 3 June as part of the 2014 edition of VeranoItaliano – an event designed to celebrate Italian cinema, music, opera, art, food and wines. The evening has been arranged by the Consulate General of the Argentine capital in collaboration with theGobierno de la […]

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29 May 2014
Farnesina Open Doors: Artistic heritage is Italy’s calling card, says Mogherini

Italy’s artistic and cultural heritage is “our country’s main calling card” and “possibly the most powerful and effective way to present ourselves to the world”, said Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini as she joined Minister for Culture Dario Franceschini in presenting a new mounting of the Farnesina contemporary art collection that includes some recently […]

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29 May 2014
Sofia – Prize for film on St. Mark’s Basilica

The documentary film “L’anima di Venezia: la Basilica di San Marco” took first prize in the Archaeology and History category of 2014’s VII edition of the Sofia Film Festival on Cultural Heritage. The film, which tells the story of the world famous monumental basilicawith its splendid Byzantine mosaics, was screened along with another three documentaries […]

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29 May 2014
Argentina – Buenos Aires celebrates Art Nouveau

“Art Nouveau in Buenos Aires and the Italian architects of the Centennial” is the title of a seminar organised for 9 June by the Italian Cultural Institute of the Argentine capital with curators Willi Pastrana, Ivan Malesaniand Alejandro Figueroa. During the year of the Centennial (1910) the emerging middle class contracted Italian architects to build […]

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29 May 2014
Italy-Usa – Journey through narrative and film in Washington

Nobel laureate for literature Mario Vargas Llosa, 3-time Oscar-winner Vittorio Storaro and award-winning writer Alessandro Barrico sat on a panel together last Friday at one of the US’s most beautiful universities – Washington’s Georgetown – for a “Voyage through the Fantastic World of Narrative and Cinema” , as part of the “Italian Culture – The […]

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Accreditation Notices
28 May 2014
Recall – Giornata della trasparenza – Inaugurazione nuova Collezione Farnesina (Farnesina, 29 maggio 2014)

On Thursday 29 May 2014 at 9:30, Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini will join Minister for Culture Dario Franceschini at the foreign ministry in Rome in inaugurating the new mounting of the Farnesina Collection, within the framework of the 3rd annual Transparency Day. The “Farnesina Art Collection” was set up in 2001, and has […]

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28 May 2014
Recall – Giornata della trasparenza – Inaugurazione nuova Collezione Farnesina (Farnesina, 29 maggio 2014)

Giovedì 29 maggio 2014, alle ore 19.30, alla Farnesina, il Ministro degli Esteri Federica Mogherini inaugurerà, insieme al Ministro per i Beni Culturali Dario Franceschini, il nuovo allestimento della Collezione Farnesina, nel quadro della III Giornata della Trasparenza. La “Collezione Farnesina Arte” è stata istituita nel 2000, ricorrendo alla formula del comodato d’uso gratuito. Da […]

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28 May 2014
Quito – UN praises Italy for restoration of San Francisco convent

The UN praised Italy for its contribution to the restoration and enhancement of the San Francisco convent complex in Quito. Participants in a recent ceremony for the presentation of its management plan included, among others, Ecuadoran Minister for Culture Francisco Velasco, Director of the INPC (international institute for cultural patrimony) Maria Josè Armijos, UN country […]

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28 May 2014
Japan – The Uffizi in Tokyo from October

The Uffizi Gallery will be “on tour” in Japan from 11 October to 14 December. The Tokyo residence of Ambassador DomenicoGiorgi hosted a press conference for the presentation of the initiative, which will be mounted at the city’s metropolitan museum and include over 70 workds by Italian Renaissance and Mannerist masters Boticelli, Andrea del Sarto, […]

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27 May 2014
Barcelona – Italy’s Unescoheritage on display Catalonia

Italy’s 45 UNESCO Heritage sites will be on display in a photographic exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona from 3 to 30 June. The photos are by Bologna-born photographer Luca Capuano, and this is the first exhibition of Italian UNESCO sites by a single author, created in collaboration with the Ministries of Foreign […]

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27 May 2014
Tirana – Winning Albanian students describe Italy

Awards went to the winners of a competition for descriptions of Italy for Albanian students of Italian at the University of Tirana. The initiative was intended to stimulate the creativity of the Albanian students through the use of the Italian language as a writing tool. Read more, in Italian.

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