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Senate passes budget bill: here are measures for culture and tourism

The Budget Law 2025 has been approved by the Senate: with 108 votes in favor, 63 against and one abstention, the maneuver, worth 30 billion in all, became law by getting the green light from Palazzo Madama. Let's take a detailed look at the main mea...
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Culture Decree approved: guidelines for an international vision of a new Ministry of Culture

The Culture Decree has been approved: a pivotal point is the Olivetti Plan for Culture, which aims to promote libraries as a means of intellectual and civic education and connection with the social fabric. The Plan aims to strengthen the publishing s...
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Trevi Fountain: extraordinary maintenance completed, start of closed number as well

The Trevi Fountain, one of Rome's most beloved monuments, is back free of scaffolding after three months of extraordinary maintenance work overseen by the Capitoline Cultural Heritage Superintendency. The intervention, included in the PNRR Caput Mund...
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Naomi Beckwith, deputy director of Guggenheim New York, named artistic director of Documenta 2027

Naomi Beckwith is the artistic director of documenta 16, the 2027 edition of the historic German contemporary art event that will take place in Kassel from June 12 to September 19, 2027. The announcement was made yesterday by Andreas Hoffmann, presid...
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Italy continues to spend nearly half the EU average on culture. Here is Italian culture in figures

In Rome this morning, the 2024 edition of the Minicuries of Culture was presented at the Ministry of Culture. The collection, edited by the General Directorate for Education, Research and Cultural Institutes of the MiC and the Fondazione Scuola dei b...
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Returned 101 archaeological artifacts to Mexico worth a total of several tens of thousands of euros

Returned 101 archaeological artifacts to Mexico recovered thanks to several operations conducted by the TPC Nuclei of Rome, Udine, Perugia, Ancona and Cosenza, and seized thanks to the coordination of the Prosecutors' Offices of Rome, Pordenone, Flor...
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Roberto Bolle brings dance to Beccaria juvenile prison: "Nurturing the beauty within us"

Roberto Bolle, international étoile and symbol of Italian dance, brought dance inside Milan's Cesare Beccaria juvenile prison. An event made possible thanks to the Roberto Bolle Foundation and the collaboration with the PuntoZero Association, ...
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Digitized and accessible to all the letters of Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi

Digitized letters of Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi: thanks to a memorandum of understanding between the president of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca, Marcello Bertocchini, and the president of the Fondation Napoléon, Victor-André...
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Ministry of Culture acquires Villa Verdi: expropriation decree signed

The Ministry of Culture, in the person of the Director General of the Directorate of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape, Luigi La Rocca, announced today the signing of the expropriation decree sanctioning the final acquisition by the state of Villa...
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Hitler and the Simpsons in the Nativity scene: the provocation of the parish priest of Mercogliano, Irpinia

A nativity scene with the Simpsons and with Hitler. Causing discussion in the village of Capocastello, in Mercogliano (Avellino), is the idea that Christmas takes on, and what's more inside a church, an unusual and at the same time disturbing pop fac...
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Subiaco is the Italian Capital of the Book 2025

Subiaco is the Italian Book Capital 2025, a city chosen the finalists Grottaferrata (Rome), Ischia (Naples), Macchiagodena (Isernia), Mistretta (Messina), Sorrento (Naples) and Subiaco (Rome). The awarding of the title took place yesterday in Rome, a...
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Italy, a country of functional illiterates

Italy is a country of functional illiterates: we could summarize in a crude and perhaps even simplistic way the outcome of theOECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) survey on adult skills for 2023, the Survey of Adult Skills, c...
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Turin, Fiat Historical Center reopens to the public as an exhibition center operated by the Automobile Museum

The Centro Storico Fiat on Via Chiabrera in Turin, which once housed Fiat's first workshops, has reopened its doors to the public as of Dec. 12, 2024. Managing the reopening, events, and activities of this key place in the history of motoring and the...
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Francesco Spano is the new director of Federculture

Francesco Spano has been officially appointed director of Federculture. The decision, ratified by the federation's Board of Directors and Executive Council, comes at the end of a selection process launched last Oct. 28, conducted by an evaluation com...
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Rome, main facade of Palazzo Farnese shines again: restoration finished

The third phase of the restoration of the facades of Palazzo Farnese, home of the French Embassy in Italy and the École française de Rome, has been completed in Rome . A major event marked the day on Monday, December 9, when the public ...
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Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris reopens five years after fire, ceremony

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, a timeless symbol ofGothic art and the spiritual heart of the French capital, officially reopened to the public on December 7, 2024, after more than five years of complex and meticulous restoration. The fire on April 15...
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