Mahmood makes a comeback in Kosovo
Thanks to the support of the Italian Embassy in Kosovo, on 5 August, Alessandro Mahmoud, stage name Mahmood, will sing at the “Sunny Hill Festival” in Pristina (Kosovo), one of the most important music festivals in the Balkans, founded and directed by Dua Lipa and her father Dukagjin, both British citizens of Kosovan descent. The […]
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Lisbon is the first European port of call for the “Amerigo Vespucci”
The Italian training ship “Amerigo Vespucci” docked in the port of Lisbon. After calling at Palermo, Tunis, and Algiers, the ship stopped at the capital of Portugal, where it had last called in 2019. On arriving at Lisbon – the first European capital and the first Atlantic port called at in its Training Campaign 2022 […]
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Barcelona: a lecture to close “Dalì’s Divina Commedia” exhibition
For the closing of the exhibition titled “La Divina Commedia illustrata da Salvador Dalí” (“The Divine Comedy Illustrated by Salvador Dalí”) organised as part of the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona has scheduled a lecture by Juliette Murphy, the curator of the exhibition, for […]
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Italy-Ethiopia conference on “Human evolution and archaeology”
The Italian Cultural Institute in Addis Ababa, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy and other organisations including the Ethiopian Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH) and Addis Ababa University, have organised a conference on “Human Evolution and Archaeology. New research by Sapienza Università di Roma in Ethiopia”. This Italian-Ethiopian conference was […]
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Mexico – conference on private sector and climate change
The Embassy of Italy to Mexico has organised a conference on the relationship between the private sector and climate change. The event, entitled “Private sector and climate change: how can we play an active part in the global energy transition?” took place in Mexico City on 20 July. Topics discussed included the impact of climate […]
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The new seat of the Consular Division of the Italian Embassy in Montevideo opened
The new seat of the Consular Division of the Italian Embassy in Montevideo was opened in the afternoon of 27 July with a flag-raising ceremony as the Italian National Anthem was sung. Participants had the opportunity to visit the new premises at the ceremony, which was attended by the President of the Supreme Court of […]
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Uruguay, Italian Stand at the Rural del Prado Expo
In Montevideo, the Italian Embassy in Uruguay and the Italy-Uruguay Chamber of Commerce presented an overview of the Italian Stand for the 2022 edition of the biggest fair in Uruguay – the Rural del Prado Expo – to the “Made in Italy” businesses operating in the country. This will be the third time in a […]
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Italy’s gift to the multilingual library in Sulaymaniyah
The Italian Consul in Erbil, Michele Camerota, handed over to Havel Abubaker, the Governor of Sulaymaniyah, 60 books in Italian, specifically purchased and shipped by the Farnesina’s Directorate General for Public and Cultural Diplomacy, to enrich the city’s newly opened multilingual literature library. The initiative follows up on the request addressed by the Governor to […]
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The Director General for Political Affairs and Security, Ambassador Pasquale Ferrara, is on an official visit to Canada
The conflict in Ukraine, food and energy security, the stabilization of Libya and the situation in the Sahel were the topics on the agenda of the meeting in Ottawa between the Farnesina’s Director General for Political Affairs and Security, Ambassador Pasquale Ferrara, and his Canadian counterpart, Heidi Hulan. Ambassador Pasquale Ferrara, on an official visit to Canada […]
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Brazil stages “8 ½ Festa del Cinema Italiano”
The Italian Cultural Institutes in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have teamed up to promote “8 ½ Festa del Cinema Italiano”, an event organised in Brazil by the Associazione Il Sorpasso and Risi Film Brazil, with the institutional sponsorship of the Italian diplomatic and consular network in Brazil. The Festival will run from 28 […]
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