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After reports surfaced recently that Italy was going to close its borders to tourists until 2021, Giorgio Palmucci, president of the Italian National Tourist Board (ENIT) set the record straight: Italy will not be closed off to tourists this year. “Tourism in Italy will start again, with all precautions and in maximum safety,” said Palmucci in a st...

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New Italian Books is the site that promotes Italian publishing, language and culture in the world. It’s bilingual, and aimed at Italian and foreign publishers, literary agents, translators, Italianists, Italian cultural institutes, Italians abroad, and all literature lovers. With the goal of encouraging Italian publishing production in the world, a...

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Un racconto del Belpaese attraverso antiche e rare carte geografiche Un altro fine settimana all’insegna della bellezza italiana. Il ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo, in collaborazione con Enit e Touring Club Italiano propone un nuovo flash mob digitale per mantenere gli italiani a contatto con le meraviglie dei propri...

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Un Grand Tour a 360° tra chiese, musei e monumenti storici d’Italia. È questo lo scopo di ItalyArt, che in questo momento storico particolare, legato alle misure restrittive per cercare di limitare la diffusione del coronavirus, ha deciso di mettere a disposizione di tutti gli amanti dell’arte e della cultura italiana nel mondo il suo archivio di t...

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Italy looks at new ways of sharing Italian culture with the world. Italy's culture minister Dario Franceschini said his ministry is discussing the creation of an Italian online platform that gives paid access to Italian culture, describing it as "a sort of Netflix of culture", according to news agency ANSA. Franceschini said the proposed platform c...

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“Culture never stops!” : it is the new page of the Cultural Heritage Ministry website, which brings together virtual initiatives organized by State-owned cultural sites and the entertainment, music and audiovisual world, in the wake of the Covid-19 emergency. Divided into six sections – Museums, Books, Cinema, Music, Education and Theatre – the pla...

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Some days ago, the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, officially kicked off the year of Parma as the Italian Capital of Culture. This symbolic title refers to a city designated by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage that — for a period of one year — is given a chance to showcase its cultural life and cultural development. Conceived...

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L’Italia sfoggia i suoi primati e si prepara al 2020 con una strategia orientata a nuovi mercati e segmenti. Stando all’Ufficio Studi Enit sono oltre 360 milioni le notti trascorse nella Penisola fino ad ottobre 2019 (+4,4%) e che hanno apportato introiti per circa 40 miliardi. Il brand Italia ha attratto ben 3 milioni di partecipanti ad eventi org...

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Italians spent 72.5 billion euros on culture last year, the Federculture association said on Thursday. This was 2.4% up on 2017, it said. Culture spending accounted for some 6.7% of total household spending in 2018, Federculture said in its 15th annual report entitled The Culture Business, Policies, Networks and Competencies. The report was present...

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Italian museums will be free again on Sundays from October 6 as a government scheme curbed by the last culture minister is reintroduced, sources said Thursday. All State museums and cultural and archaeological sites will again be free to enter on the first Sunday of the month. Prime sites include Pompeii, the Colosseum, the Reggia di Caserta and Tr...

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