London, Italy Run for Italian Sports Day
This is the first-ever Italy Run to be held in London, and it aims to celebrate Italian Sports Day in the World. The event – organised by the Consulate General of Italy in London and featuring two icons of Italian sport, Gianfranco Zola and Roberto Di Matteo, as ambassadors – will take place on 22 […]
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Paolo Rumiz at the Vilenica International Literary Festival
On 5 September, Italian writer Paolo Rumiz took part in an important literary event, organised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Ljubljana, which took place at the headquarters of the Slovene Writers’ Association. As part of the 39th Vilenica International Literary Festival, titled “Brave New World – Icarus 2.0“, which this year focused […]
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La Scala’s season presented at the Embassy in Vienna
For the third consecutive year, Palazzo Metternich, seat of the Italian Embassy in Vienna, hosted the press conference to present the 2024/2025 opera season of Teatro alla Scala. In his welcome address to the guests, Ambassador Pugliese pointed out that music is a common heritage of Italy and Austria, both of which are cradles and […]
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“Caffè Young Italy” in Riga
Promoting Italian talent under 35: this is the goal of the “Caffè Young Italy” project, organised by the Italian Embassy in Riga, Latvia, whose first two public conversations were a great success with the audience. “Heirs to a great tradition, our young artists – said Ambassador Alessandro Monti – successfully promote Italian creativity around the […]
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Melka Kunture (Ethiopia) in the World Hertage List
Melka Kunture is a prehistoric site of the Ethiopian highlands researched by the Italo-Spanish Archaeological Mission with the support of MAECI and scientific institutions. The Ethiopian Authorities submitted the candidature of Melka Kunture (MK) to the World Heritage List and in 2024 UNESCO granted the prestigious inscription https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/13?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR13xLGaP9gBHUxNqT7SQ8yc97QbBh8kBTG65cc1cbv WSoLyYiLQHGlvHD8_aem_VFCGA5CUBD3ey0oZPkEOlw At 2000-2200 m of altitude in […]
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Istanbul – Montella and Santarelli at the Italian Sports Day
Respect, passion, fair competition and team spirit. These are the values promoted during the first ‘Italian Sports Day in the World’ also celebrated in Istanbul. The protagonists of the event were Vincenzo Montella and Daniele Santarelli, coaches of the Turkish national football and women’s volleyball teams, and two successful icons of Italian sport in Turkey. […]
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Doha – Conference on Combating Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property
The third edition of the international conference on combating the illicit trafficking in cultural property, organised by the Qatar National Library in cooperation with the Embassy of Italy in Doha, as well as the Embassies of France and the United States, closes today with its fourth day of activities. The event, which has seen Italy […]
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Prague celebrates Italian Sports Day
The Embassy of Italy in Prague today is hosting at its headquarters the presentation ceremony of the “Italian Sports Day in the World” for the Czech Republic. The initiative promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and CONI, is aimed at “promoting Italian excellence, districts and industries […]
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“Mastroianni 100” in Santiago, Chile.
The Italian Cultural Institute of Santiago and the Cineteca Nacional de Chile are pleased to announce the “Mastroianni 100” retrospective of Marcello Mastroianni’s finest films. Organised on the occasion of the centenary celebration of Mastroianni’s birth, the retrospective will feature eight films by the Italian actor in their original restored versions with Spanish subtitles. The […]
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Davide Hjort Di Fabio in Copenaghen with ‘VivaVoce’
In his first solo exhibition ‘Vivavoce’, Davide Hjort Di Fabio explores the structure of memory and the way memories are formed, preserved and transformed over time. Inspired by the words of Bell Hooks in the book Belonging: A Culture of Place, ‘We are born and have our being in a place of memory’, Di Fabio […]
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