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The Italian state has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Villa Verdi, home of the great composer Giuseppe Verdi, Italy's culture ministry announced on Monday. Verdi lived and composed in the building, located in Sant'Agata di Villanova in the Piacenza area of northern Italy, from 1851 until his death in 1901. The state is to formally take po...

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Subiaco, in the province of Rome, has been proclaimed Italian Book Capital 2025. The municipality will receive a prize of 500,000 euros to be invested in initiatives for the development of reading. “the title of Italian Capital of Books is also intended to celebrate the cities of Italy as the propelling center of our civilization,” commented the Mi...

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The Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has officially proclaimed the extension to Italy of UNESCO's recognition of traditional Bell Art as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This is yet another significant milestone achieved that sees one of its oldest and most beloved tr...

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Rome lovers and arts afficionados rejoice! In an effort to restore and showcase ancient artifacts stored in the warehouses of numerous Italian museums, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the non-profit association LoveItaly and the Lazio Hotel Federation have launched a new initiative entitled Art Out of the Museum (Arte Fuori del Museo).  The Museo...

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The Ministry of Culture announces that the jury for the selection of the city “Italian Capital of Contemporary Art” for the year 2026 has chosen the 5 finalist projects after reviewing the 23 applications received. These are the 5 finalists: Carrara (Tuscany): “Carrara - For 2000 years contemporary”; Gallarate (Lombardy): “La Cultura del Fare. The...

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"Italian is not an imperial language, but it is far from provincial; it is a creative language that embodies humanism, culture, and the future—it is a global language.”  It is also a language that attracts and appeals.  “This is evident among the ‘Italsimpatici’—those who are drawn to Italy for its culture, art, music, and lifestyle—as well as the...

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2023 was an incredible year for Italian museums, which recorded nearly 58 million visitors and generated over 313 million euros in revenue. A significant achievement, also reached thanks to the strategic efforts by the Ministry of Culture to implement paid entry across many previously free museums, and the successful launch of the Musei Italiani ap...

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The Italian Ministry of Culture has recently launched the first version of “Musei Italiani,” an application that provides users with information about Italy’s national museums and allows for the digital purchase of tickets. The app offers details on 406 Italian museums and archaeological parks, in Italian and in English, and geolocates cultural sit...

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“Italian Museums,” theofficial app of the National Museum System, was presented this morning at the Ministry of Culture. This app, in connection with the museiitaliani.it platform, allows users to inform themselves, explore and purchase tickets for state-owned cultural venues throughout Italy. The initiative, part of the PNRR-funded “Ad Arte” proje...

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Italy's Culture Ministry officially has suspended art loans to the Minneapolis Institute of Art following disputes over the 1st century Roman sculpture "Doryphoros." Italian authorities believe the statue, which originated in the south of Naples, was illegally excavated in the 1970s. Mia said it purchased it for $2.5 million in 1986 from art dealer...

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