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Diplomatic Network
19 July 2023
A Mural by MILLO in Athens to celebrate Calvino

Street artist MILLO will be in Athens to paint a mural dedicated to Italo Calvino. The initiative is promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute, which, together with the Municipality of Vyronas and Athens Awesome Experience, has organised an event scheduled from 24 to 28 July 2023 starring Francesco Camillo Giorgino, aka MILLO. The Italian artist […]

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Diplomatic Network
18 July 2023
Ambassador Bombardiere visits the Central Drug Warehouse in Lebanon

The Ambassador of Italy to Lebanon, Nicoletta Bombardiere, together with the Lebanese Minister of Public Health Firass Abiad and WHO Representative Abdinasir Abubakar, visited the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health’s Central Drug Warehouse. The visit was part of the Italian Government’s contribution to support access to and availability of life-saving cancer treatment for the vulnerable […]

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Diplomatic Network
18 July 2023
Tokyo, Conference on the history of the Italian Embassy garden

On 20 July the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo is organising a Conference on the history of the garden surrounding the Italian Embassy. The building located on a hill in Mita, Minato-ku, is a precious place from a historical viewpoint: formerly the residence of the daimyo of Matsudaira in the Edo period, it is surrounded […]

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Diplomatic Network
18 July 2023
Brasilia, conferences on “Contemporary City and Urban Conservation”

In the presence of the Italian Ambassador to Brazil, Francesco Azzarello, the “Contemporary City and Urban Conservation” conference cycle was inaugurated at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of Brasilia. Lectures, mini-courses and seminars are scheduled on the relationship between heritage conservation and modern urban planning, based on the legacy of […]

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In detail
14 July 2023
Voices from the Farnesina – Avamposti (Outposts). Italy in frontier places: Ghana

Italy has 129 embassies in the world, many of which represent our country in geographically distant, little-known contexts. Avamposti, the new podcast series produced in collaboration with the AGI news agency, has selected some of them to describe their different facets and also analyse them in the light of their relations with the Italian culture. […]

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Diplomatic Network
14 July 2023
Amsterdam: “The Sweet Invasion” of Italian ice-cream on display

A century of Italian ice-cream history in the Netherlands is encapsulated in the photo exhibition “La Dolce Invasione” (“The Sweet Invasion”), as promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute of Amsterdam. One hundred years ago, the first Italian ice-cream makers arrived in the Netherlands from Veneto and Tuscany. Since then, Italian ice-cream has become an integral […]

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Diplomatic Network
13 July 2023
Lima, Italy present at the International Book Fair

The Italian Cultural Institute of Lima is present again this year at the Lima International Book Fair (Feria Internacional del Libro de Lima – FIL LIMA) with a series of activities that will further enrich the cultural ties between Italy and Peru. From 21 July to 6 August, Italy’s exhibition stand will offer games and […]

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Events
12 July 2023
Two works by Franz Cerami in the Farnesina Collection

Among the recent acquisitions of the Farnesina Collection are two works by Franz Cerami – Mars (2021) and Venus I (2022) – belonging to the “Red Venus” series, which was exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Naples in 2022. The Farnesina Collection is a collection of over 600 works of Italian art, ranging from the […]

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Diplomatic Network
10 July 2023
Belgrade’s exhibition “In memory of Paolo Rossi and Sinisa Mihajlovic”

At the Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade the Italian Ambassador to Serbia, Luca Gori, inaugurated the exhibition “In memory of Paolo Rossi and Sinisa Mihajlovic” dedicated to the two champions who have recently passed away. The inauguration was attended not only by the Minister of Culture, Maja Gojkovic, and the Museum Director, Biljana Jotic, […]

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Diplomatic Network
5 July 2023
Italian Masterpieces on Stage at the Opera Festival Of Chicago

The Opera Festival Of Chicago, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, presents a series of original Italian works, with masterpieces rarely performed on the US stages, built around the theme “Power, Glory, and Betrayal”. The festival will open on 6 July with one of the most famous compositions by Ildebrando Pizzetti, “Murder in the […]

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Diplomatic Network
5 July 2023
Exhibition in Madrid: “Racconti (in)visibili: tra cielo e terra”

The original exhibition “Racconti (in)visibili: tra cielo e terra” ((In)visible Tales: Between Sky and Earth) will open on 7 July in Madrid. The show, prepared by the Central Institute for Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Italian Ministry of Culture in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid, is sponsored by the Italian Embassy in […]

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Diplomatic Network
5 July 2023
AYSO Youth Orchestra wins Vienna Festival

For the second year consecutively, the Youth Symphony Orchestra, AYSO, triumphed at the prestigious “Summa cum Laude” International Competition which took place in Vienna between St. Stephen’s Cathedral and the Musikverein, the temple of classical music. AYSO Orchestra, composed of musicians with an average age of 19 that come from numerous Italian conservatories, competed against […]

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