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 […]
Read moreDei/Sole 24 Ore: Paraguay: Cartes presents 16 bn USD programme
Following the approval of a law on private capital (APP: Alianca Publico Privada), President of Paraguay, Horacio Cartes, presented a programme providing for investments of 16 billion dollars over the next two years, over 6 billion of which in infrastructure projects (roads, bridges etc.). Another 2.7 billion is intended for boosting the electrical power system, […]
Read moreExpo: ensuring access to food a challenge, says Mogherini – Possible UN 2015 World Food Day in Milan
“The EXPO will be a major opportunity for Italy to contribute to the global debate on sustainable development”, said Minister for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini while attending a meeting in Milan entitled “EXPO 2015: a Global Pact for Food”, organised by ISPI. “The number of international participants in the EXPO has surpassed predictions at the […]
Read moreSofia – 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 […]
Read moreItaly-Austria – Growth in bilateral cooperation
Bilateral cooperation between Italy and Austria is on the rise. Italian ambassador in Vienna Giorgio Marrapodi recently made a visit to the authorities of Upper Austria, where he met with Governor Josef Puhringer and Mayor of Linz Klaus Luger, with whom he discussed reciprocal cooperative relations between Italy and that part of Austria in terms […]
Read moreArgentina – 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 […]
Read moreItaly-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 […]
Read moreDiplomazia Economica Italiana – 28 May: Latest World News, compiled in collaboration with Il Sole 24 ORE Radiocor
Dubai: 2014 Gulf furniture market valued at 2.73 billion USD The 2014 interior furnishings market of the United Arab Emirates at valued at 2.73 billion USD, according to the data that emerged at the International Design Exhibition (INDEX), where more than 700 vendors from 44 countries (up 15% over last year) displayed their wares. Italy […]
Read moreItaly-Romania, Mogherini in Bucharest – Talks centred on bilateral relations and international agenda concerns
The status of bilateral relations and major international agenda concerns, beginning with the Ukraine crisis and the consequences of Sunday’s European vote, will be the focus of the talks Minister Federica Mogherini has planned for today in Bucharest with Romanian leaders.
Read moreQuito – 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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