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Minton's Playhouse, New York. Notte. Inquadratura fissa. "Fifty years are not a joke". Esordisce così Antonio Ciacca, direttore artistico del Festival del jazz della Spezia, nella conferenza stampa di presentazione della cinquantesima edizione della rassegna più longeva d'Italia, che si svolge ininterrottamente dal 1969 nei parchi, nelle piazze e n...

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The tranquil sea below us merges with an azure sky: the colour scheme is broken only by pastel homes, randomly piled on a steep cliff jutting out of the sea. A reluctant trekker, I have just made one of my most excruciating climbs to the top of a vineyard in Manarola, a tiny fishing village perched on a cliff in Cinque Terre on the northwestern Ita...

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Sarà un gemellaggio artistico scritto sullo spartito musicale, quello tra La Spezia e New York in occasione del Festival Internazionale del Jazz in programma nel capoluogo ligure dal 23 al 29 luglio 2018. Ad annunciarlo negli USA sarà l’assessore alla Cultura, Turismo e Promozione della Città Paolo Asti durante una conferenza stampa in programma me...

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The mayor of the two southernmost villages, Riomaggiore and Manarola, has put out a call for local residents to take turns guarding Manarola's cemetery and ensure that "no one can use the site for picnics, selfies, panoramic photos or other inappropriate and disrespectful activities".  Mayor Fabrizia Pecunia has already ordered the graveyard to be...

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The legacy between Genoa and San Francisco is now stronger than ever. Two years after the visits of some other Genovese representatives, Italian Americans in the bay welcomed Marco Bucci, currently serving as Genoa Mayor since his election in June 2017.  Mr Bucci and his team had a week full of events and meetings, aiming to strengthen the relation...

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On June 5th, Jeff Capaccio and the Silicon Valley Italian Executive Council (SVIEC) hosted a great evening in Redwood City where Institutions and Entrepreneurs came together to meet and exchange ideas.  MEET ITALY was invited to give a brief update on the activities we are nurturing in Southern California and to strengthen the link between the hi-t...

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La città di Genova si presenta al mondo economico e industriale di San Francisco e Silicon Valley. Obiettivo della missione di marketing territoriale, organizzata dal Comune di Genova e guidata dal sindaco Marco Bucci, su invito del Consolato Generale d'Italia a San Francisco attirare investimenti, turismo, imprese. Inoltre, su iniziativa del conso...

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On the occasion of Italy's National Day and Mayor Marco Bucci of Genoa's visit of San Francisco, The Consulate General of Italy and The Italian Cultural Institute pay homage to the city of Genoa with a beautiful double concert. We will listen to musics of Paganini, Rossini, Carulli, Bellini, Schubert, Verdi and Beethoven, performed by duo Andrea Ca...

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Carloforte is a beautiful village in South Sardinia. The municipality coincides with the entire island of San Pietro and is known for the fact that its residents do not speak the Sardinian dialect but “tabarchino”, and ancient Ligurian language brought over in the 18th century by Genoese settlers from the Tunisian island of Tabarka, where they had...

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When I was first asked about going to Cinque Terra, I didn’t have a clue where it was. “Northern Italy – on the west coast, north of Pisa,” I was told. “Not quite on the French border. At the top of the boot!” I consulted my iPhone Google atlas and read some travel essays. What first clicked, oddly perhaps, was that Cinque Terre was where Percy Bys...

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