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09/22/2021

Italy is the Ultimate Golf Destination

Italians call their home country il bel paese for good reason, writes ENIT - Agenzia Nazionale del Turismo in Sports Illustrated. “The Beautiful Country” more than lives up to such a lofty moniker with miles of gorgeous coastlines, soaring mountains, and lush terrain stretching from the tip of the boot in the South to the peaks of the Alps in the North.
Italy is synonymous with incredible food, glorious wine, ancient ruins, and fabulous fashion, yet even serious golfers may not associate their favorite game with one of the most popular travel locales on earth. That will surely change soon, when the prestigious Ryder Cup tees off in Rome in 2023 for what promises to be a celebration of the sport across the world.

Golfing in Italy is unlike golfing anywhere else on earth. As the country prepares to host the Ryder Cup in 2023, here’s what you need to know to tee off in Italia.

09/22/2021

The A-List Edit: Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy

Once the playground for the likes of Ernest Hemingway and Sophia Loren, Cortina has retained its glamour and is now attracting discerning skiers looking to combine breathtaking scenery and Olympic ski runs with luxury hotel stays and a delectable local food scene, writes Vanity Fair in a recent article on what they call "the legendary ski resort Cortina d’Ampezzo."
After all, together with Milan, Cortina will be the host of the Winter Olympics in 2026 MilanoCortina2026

Deep in the heart of the Italian Alps lies the legendary ski resort Cortina d’Ampezzo.

09/22/2021

Youth4Climate - Part 2

"What are the most worrying signs of climate change that you see in your region?," Italian Ambassador to the United States Mariangela Zappia asked Ruth and Rayne, to the two US delegates to #Youth4Climate #DrivingAmbition.

Ruth is from Alaska and Rayne is from Hawaii.

Stay tuned for the full conversation.

09/21/2021

Italian Ambassador to the US Mariangela Zappia visited ‘Magnifica' at Cody Gallery at Marymount University the first solo show of the Italian female artists’ duo Goldschmied & Chiari curated by Allison Nance and organized by International Arts & Artists in partnership with the Embassy of Italy and Istituto Italiano di Cultura Washington. On view until December 4, 2021.
The artists present new work from their iconic Untitled Views series and Untitled Portraits (2019-2020) stylized with billowing pink and purple shades of smoke recalling floral blooms. These pieces are in dialogue with glass-blown vases made in Murano drawing inspiration from carnivorous plants and lipstick kisses.
👉 More info at https://iicwashington.esteri.it/iic_washington/en/gli_eventi/calendario/2021/09/in-person-goldschmied-chiari-magnifica.html

09/21/2021

Milan Fashion Week Returns in Full Swing With IRL Events

Italy's Camera della Moda officially unveiled the rich schedule for September, which will see 173 appointments, 125 of which to be held in-person.
“We’re inverting the trend compared to the last couple of [mainly digital] editions, which is something that gives us a powerful injection of energy in this moment,” said Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana president Carlo Capasa about #MilanFashionWeek Sept 21-27.
https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/milan-fashion-week-physical-shows-events-1234911202/

Camera della Moda officially unveiled the rich schedule for September, which will see 173 appointments, 125 of which to be held in-person.

09/21/2021

Youth4Climate - Part 1

Italian Ambassador to the United States Mariangela Zappia with the two US delegates to #Youth4Climate #DrivingAmbition taking place in Milan next week: "It is youth like Ruth and Rayne that will inherit our planet."
Ahead of the COP26, scheduled in the UK in November, Italy will host in Milan not only the Pre-COP26 ministerial meeting, but also the “Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition” event.
400 young delegates aged between 15 and 29, coming from all over the world, will gather in Milan, from September 28th to 30th.
Stay tuned for the full conversation with Ruth Miller from Alaska and Rayne from Hawaii. This is part of our new short video series for Youth4Climate. Check out Part 2 tomorrow.

09/20/2021

Starting tomorrow, you can virtually join the conversation on youth and climate that Italian Ambassador in Washington DC Mariangela Zappia had with Ruth and Rayne, the two U.S. delegates to #Youth4Climate #DrivingAmbition taking place in Milan next week, as part of Pre-COP26 and COP26.

09/20/2021

The #travelban will be lifted from early November. Vaccinated and tested Italians & Europeans will be allowed to travel ✈️ again to the U.S. 🇺🇸! Great news from the White House for all Italians in the U.S. and at home in #Italy 🇮🇹

The #travelban will be lifted from early November. Vaccinated and tested Italians & Europeans will be allowed to travel ✈️ again to the U.S. 🇺🇸! Great news from the White House for all Italians in the U.S. and at home in #Italy 🇮🇹

09/20/2021

75% of Italians over 12 are fully vaccinated & could safely travel ✈️ to the 🇺🇸 if allowed. Thousands of Italians in the US want to travel to #Italy 🇮🇹 to see their families & do business. Safe Transatlantic travel ✈️ between the 🇺🇸 and 🇮🇹 &🇪🇺 is feasible. Let’s allow it!

75% of Italians over 12 are fully vaccinated & could safely travel ✈️ to the 🇺🇸 if allowed. Thousands of Italians in the US want to travel to #Italy 🇮🇹 to see their families & do business. Safe Transatlantic travel ✈️ between the 🇺🇸 and 🇮🇹 &🇪🇺 is feasible. Let’s allow it!

09/20/2021

Rinnovo dei Comites 2021

Iscriviti nell’elenco elettorale del tuo Consolato entro il 3 novembre, poi restituisci il plico elettorale che riceverai per posta a casa entro il 3 dicembre: ecco come si vota per il rinnovo dei Comites!
https://ambwashingtondc.esteri.it/ambasciata_washington/it/sala-stampa/dall_ambasciata/2021/08/elezione-dei-comitati-degli-italiani_0.html

09/19/2021

Twenty years of history told by Italian photographers

To say that 'The Families of Man' is a large group exhibition with which the Regional Archaeological Museum of Aosta, Italy offers an unprecedented overview of Italian photography over the last twenty years would be an understatement.
In fact the project allows visitors not only to see (or see again) the work of the main Italian authors, ranging from masters to promising talents and including the most established names today, but also to show a cross–section of photographic genres, starting with the more historically consolidated ones and arriving at an entirely contemporary fluidity without forgetting the more commercial declinations. All this with a "pretext" that is as simple in its intentions as it is complex in its realisation: to cover, through the most representative images, more than twenty years of recent history, from the fateful 1989 to the equally—though for less exciting reasons—memorable 2020.
https://www.domusweb.it/en/art/gallery/2021/08/24/twenty-years-of-history-told-by-italian-photographers.html

An ambitious group exhibition in Aosta attempts the difficult task of recounting the evolution of society over the last twenty years.

09/18/2021

Experience the spectacle of Venice and its rich history as a glassmaking capital through "Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano," organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery with the support of the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC.
The exhibition is the first comprehensive examination of the American Grand Tour to Venice in the late nineteenth century, revealing the glass furnaces and their new creative boom as a vibrant facet of the city’s allure.
The exhibit opens October 8.
📸 Thomas Moran, A View of Venice, 1891, oil on canvas, 35 1/8 x 25 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1968.120.1
👉 https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/sargent-whistler-glass

Experience the spectacle of Venice and its rich history as a glassmaking capital through "Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano," organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery with the support of the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC.
The exhibition is the first comprehensive examination of the American Grand Tour to Venice in the late nineteenth century, revealing the glass furnaces and their new creative boom as a vibrant facet of the city’s allure.
The exhibit opens October 8.
📸 Thomas Moran, A View of Venice, 1891, oil on canvas, 35 1/8 x 25 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1968.120.1
👉 https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/sargent-whistler-glass

09/17/2021

Born into poverty and largely self-taught, Mario Giacomelli became one of #Italy’s leading photographers. Giacomelli is featured in this exciting exhibition at the Getty in Los Angeles. Now through Oct 10.
https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/giacomelli/

Born into poverty and largely self-taught, Mario Giacomelli became one of #Italy’s leading photographers. Giacomelli is featured in this exciting exhibition at the Getty in Los Angeles. Now through Oct 10.
https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/giacomelli/

09/17/2021

A few more days left to visit "Bernini & the Roman Baroque: Masterpieces from the Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia," at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, Maryland. The exhibit examines the influence of Italian Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) on the artistic climate of Rome and beyond through the collection of the Chigi family’s historic Palazzo located about 16 miles outside of Rome, Italy.
📸 Carlo Maratti, called Il Maratta and Mario Nuzzi, called Mario de’ Fiori, The Summer, 1658-59, Oil on canvas, Palazzo Chigi, Ariccia.
https://wcmfa.org/exhibitions/current/bernini-the-roman-baroque-masterpieces-from-palazzo-chigi-in-ariccia/

A few more days left to visit "Bernini & the Roman Baroque: Masterpieces from the Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia," at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown, Maryland. The exhibit examines the influence of Italian Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) on the artistic climate of Rome and beyond through the collection of the Chigi family’s historic Palazzo located about 16 miles outside of Rome, Italy.
📸 Carlo Maratti, called Il Maratta and Mario Nuzzi, called Mario de’ Fiori, The Summer, 1658-59, Oil on canvas, Palazzo Chigi, Ariccia.
https://wcmfa.org/exhibitions/current/bernini-the-roman-baroque-masterpieces-from-palazzo-chigi-in-ariccia/

09/16/2021

A heartfelt welcome back to Villa Firenze to Dr Anthony Fauci from Italian Ambassador to the US Mariangela Zappia last night, and thanks for his words of appreciation for the management of the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy.

A heartfelt welcome back to Villa Firenze to Dr Anthony Fauci from Italian Ambassador to the US Mariangela Zappia last night, and thanks for his words of appreciation for the management of the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy.

09/16/2021

"Scientists on Italy's side of the Mont Blanc massif, in the Aosta Valley region, are constantly monitoring a melting glacier, where the risk of collapse due to rising temperatures threatens the valley below.
The Planpincieux glacier, at an altitude of about 2,700 metres (8,860 feet), hangs over the hamlet of Planpincieux, underneath the south face of the Grandes Jorasses within the Mont Blanc massif in Italy's picturesque northwest corner.
Known as a "temperate" glacier, it is already at a melting point, as opposed to polar glaciers that are still frozen to bedrock.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210811-experts-eye-unstable-glacier-within-italy-s-mont-blanc

"Scientists on Italy's side of the Mont Blanc massif, in the Aosta Valley region, are constantly monitoring a melting glacier, where the risk of collapse due to rising temperatures threatens the valley below.
The Planpincieux glacier, at an altitude of about 2,700 metres (8,860 feet), hangs over the hamlet of Planpincieux, underneath the south face of the Grandes Jorasses within the Mont Blanc massif in Italy's picturesque northwest corner.
Known as a "temperate" glacier, it is already at a melting point, as opposed to polar glaciers that are still frozen to bedrock.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210811-experts-eye-unstable-glacier-within-italy-s-mont-blanc

09/15/2021

‘Luca’ Director Talks Italian Inspiration in Never-Before-Seen Bonus Feature [Exclusive]

Disney and Disney and Pixar's Luca recent release on digital features Italian director Enrico Casarosa talking about how Luca was inspired by growing up in #Italy and more bonus behind-the-scenes about Cinque Terre.
https://movieweb.com/luca-blu-ray-featurette-exclusive/

Enrico Casarosa speaks about how ‘Luca’ was inspired by growing up in Italy in our exclusive first look.

09/14/2021

The women who appear in Dante's 'Divine Comedy' are finally getting their due, 700 years later

When Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago, on Sept. 14, 1321, he had just put his final flourishes on the “Divine Comedy,” a monumental poem that would inspire readers for centuries.
According to Laura Ingallinella, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian Studies and English, Wellesley College, ""Among the 600 characters appearing in the “Divine Comedy,” women are the least likely to appear in the historical record.""
She continued: "The more my students asked me about the women in the poem, the more I wondered: What if we found a way to tell everyone their stories? So I approached Wiki Education, a nonprofit that fosters the collaboration between higher education and Wikipedia, to see if they would partner with me and my students. They agreed."
https://theconversation.com/the-women-who-appear-in-dantes-divine-comedy-are-finally-getting-their-due-700-years-later-166790

One citation at a time, a professor and her students are crafting a more complete picture of Dante’s women.

09/14/2021

Stanley Tucci on his star turn playing himself—and the perfect Italian meal for right now

Actor and host Stanley Tucci on where the concept behind his Emmy-winning television series "Searching for Italy" for CNN Original Series comes from: "The way I grew up. My mother is an amazing cook. Food was everything for us. My friends would always want to come over to eat. I saw how it could bring people together." Check out what Tucci told Yasmin Gagné in a recent interview in Fast Company.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90651733/most-creative-people-2021-stanley-tucci

The beloved actor shares the origins of his hit CNN series and what he hopes you’ll learn from it about Italy.

09/14/2021

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09/14/2021

🇮🇹 Italy from space

This incredible time-lapse of our beautiful country 🇮🇹 from space was taken from the International Space Station 4 years ago today. #Italy is so beautiful!

09/13/2021

Congratulazioni to Stanley Tucci, CNN Original Series, and the "Searching For Italy" team for winning the #Emmys2021 in the "Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series Or Special" category! Congrats!

Congratulazioni to Stanley Tucci, CNN Original Series, and the "Searching For Italy" team for winning the #Emmys2021 in the "Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series Or Special" category! Congrats!

09/13/2021

Rinnovo dei Comites

Il 3 dicembre 2021 si vota per il rinnovo e l’istituzione dei #ComItEs, che tutelano e promuovono i diritti e gli interessi degli italiani all’estero. Al Comites trovi chi ti dà una mano!
https://ambwashingtondc.esteri.it/ambasciata_washington/it/sala-stampa/dall_ambasciata/2021/08/elezione-dei-comitati-degli-italiani_0.html

09/13/2021

SOM wins competition to design the olympic village for milano cortina 2026

US-based international architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has won an international competition to design the athletes’ village for the MilanoCortina2026 winter Olympics. The project prioritizes sustainable building strategies and establishing a new urban community that will long outlast the #MilanoCortina2026 Olympics.
https://www.designboom.com/architecture/som-olympic-village-milano-cortina-2026-07-16-2021/

SOM has won an international competition to design the athletes’ village for the milano cortina 2026 winter olympics. forming part of a larger masterplan to revitalize porta romana railway yard in milan, the winning scheme prioritizes sustainable building strategies and establishing a new urban co...