by Mauro battocchi   Did you know that since 2011 over 1500 Americans from the North-West Pacific Consular jurisdiction were granted Italian citizenship at the Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco? Most were claimed through lineage, but a small portion were also granted citizenship through marriage. Recent entries to Italian citizensh...

The Leonardo da Vinci Society Cordially Invites its Members to an Evening in Honor of The Consul General of Italy Mauro Battocchi   Italy 2013 – A Snapshot of a European Country in Transition Followed by a Reception - Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 7:30 pm   Museo Italo-Americano - Fort Mason Center, Building C, San Franc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Even before the year 2012 had drawn to a close, the Consul General of Italy in San Francisco, the Honorable Mauro Battocchi, teamed up with San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, to announce the beginning of "2013 Year of Italian Culture" in the United States, and specifically in the San Francisco Bay Area. The announcement was made in grand...

by Mauro Battocchi   Mike Homer, Italy's Honorary Consul to Utah since 2008, is a historian among many other talents and has written several books on the American West and Mormonism. In 2007, the Mormon History Association awarded him the Steven Christensen Best Documentary Book Award for On the Way to Somewhere Else: European Sojourners in...

La sede dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco si è trasformata per una sera in una vera e propria passerella di moda, per la presentazione della collezione di moda indipendente Eva Flair, la quale mira a promuovere il Made in Italy autentico nel mondo.   In occasione del 2013 Anno della Cultura Italiana negli Stati Uniti, Eva Flair h...

Experience a trip through Italy during a day centered around the country's culture and traditions. To start, an exhibition of well-known Sicilian photographer Giuseppe Leone will open the event through the anachronistic images of the island together with internationally renowned Italian pianist, Laura Magnani. To follow a series of events...

by Mauro Battocchi   A new flower in the current "Italian Spring" in San Francisco will blossom on Sunday January 31, 2016, at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center in Palo Alto (3921 Fabian Way): the first ever Silicon Valley Italian Festival. Sponsored by all stripes of the Italian community, from the Italian Consulate General in San F...

by Mauro Battocchi   On September 12 the Governor of the State of Washington celebrated the Grand Opening of the new Umbra Cuscinetti Inc.'s new production facility in Everett, near Seattle, along with local authorities, customers and employees. I had the honor to take part in the celebration and convey to the audience Ambassador Bisogniero'...

This last June 25th history was in the making at the Palazzo dell'Innovazione in Naples. City administrators, regional politicians, university professors, scientific researchers, innovators, startuppers and foreign diplomats came together to support Unite the Two Bays – From Vesuvio to Silicon Valley...and back and to reaffirm Naples'—and Campania'...

Si è appena conclusa la missione di business che ha portato una delegazione di imprenditori e professionisti prima al Consumer Electronic Show di Las Vegas e successivamente a San Francisco e nel cuore della Silicon Valley. Il viaggio è stato organizzato grazie al contributo del Professor Marco Astuti dell'Università LIUC e alla collaborazione del...