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Il marchio Italia ha visto crescere le ricerche su Google, negli ultimi tre anni, del 22%, restando un punto di forza nel Mondo, sinonimo di creatività, qualità e bellezza. Lo rileva il rapporto Italia - Geografie del nuovo "made in Italy" di Fondazione Symbola, Unioncamere e Fondazione Edison, presentato, oggi, a Treia (Macerata) nella sessio...

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Italy's government has allocated €1 billion for culture. Of these funds, €645 million will be used to finance thirty-three big projects that will involve 13 regions, mainly for restoration and enhancement works, while €185 million will be used for local projects to attract tourism (like religious pilgrim paths or the requalification of the Appian W...

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It may be because it sounds like music or because it is the language of one of the most influential literatures in human history, but Italian has been found to be the 4th most studied language in the world in 2014, following English, French, and Spanish.   This significant result is something that the Italian government, as well as the insti...

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Parte la XIV edizione del Premio New York che per la prima volta, da quest'anno, oltre alla partecipazione della Farnesina, dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura a New York e dell'Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, vede anche l'adesione del Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo – Direzione Generale Arte e Architettur...

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The Colosseum is set to become part of an archaeological park that will also include the Domus Aurea, Palatine Hill and Forum sites, Culture Minister Dario Franceschini announced on Tuesday. The park will have a new director appointed via an international selection process, as has already happened for 30 other top cultural sites that were made auto...

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by Marzio Bartoloni   The government has just drawn up its 2017-2023 strategic plan for the tourism industry, one of most undervalued sectors in the nation. Revenue totaled €35.8 billion in 2015, putting Italy in seventh place in value and fifth (after France, the USA, Spain and China) in number of visitors (50.7 million). That's too few giv...

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The cloak of time that concealed them – not to mention the green grass that covered them – is gone at last, and the precious polychrome "fan-shaped" mosaics in [one of the] palaestrae of the Baths of Caracalla (Rome), dating back to the third century AD, have resumed their ancient luster thanks to the restoration work begun in 2015.   The pr...

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Attesa per il 14 aprile quando a Milano verra' presentato agli editori italiani BooksinItaly, il primo sito per la promozione dell'editoria, della lingua e della cultura italiana nel mondo.   Disponibile in italiano e inglese, lo spazio sul web si rivolge agli editori, sia italiani sia stranieri, ai traduttori, agli italianisti e agli Istitu...

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The walk to Dario Franceschini's office is in itself testament to Italy's vast heritage. Past countless paintings lining the corridors of the culture ministry, he sits dwarfed by high walls adorned with books. In any other capital, such a scene might seem as if it were put on for guests, but in Rome it feels more as if Italy has simply run out...

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In light of the recent proposal to reconstruct the arena floor of the Colosseum, which has caught the attention of the world, it is worth taking into the perspective the rest of the city of Rome, which has a long history of reconstruction of ancient monuments.   Backing up, first a quick review about the Colosseum floor. It is true that alre...

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