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Don Ciccio & Figli is better positioned than most small American spirits brands to take advantage of the current infatuation with amaro. Francesco Amodeo started the company in 2012 in Washington, DC, drawing on a family lineage of Italian spirits makers from the Amalfi Coast that dates back to 1883.  When Amodeo launched, he focused on something A...

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The 2022 – 2023 season marks Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda's sixth season as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in Washington D.C. In June 2022, his contract was extended through the 2026/27 season. It was recently reported Noseda has been loaning 17th-19th century Italian string instruments from his private collection to...

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The Embassy of Italy in Washington hosted the Spring Gala of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), the first major museum in the world that is dedicated exclusively to collecting and promoting works by women artists since the 1980s. “The National Museum of Women in the Arts not only plays an essential role in Washington DC’s cultural sce...

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To celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the Italian Air Force, a group of five T-6 Texan II aircraft, flown by 10 Italian Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training instructors led by Lt. Col. Andrea Cerri, the Italian Senior National Representative, took off from Sheppard AFB on a historic round trip. The mission saw them land and fly over sites of histo...

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The Embassy of Italy and the Middleburg Film Festival organized an evening in Washington celebrating the Italian-American community’s success in film, with a reception and the screening of producer and director Ray Romano’s feature film Somewhere in Queens, a comedy about a family at the heart of the Italian-American community in Queens, New York....

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The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC presents Going through Hell: The Divine Dante, a look at how the poet’s masterwork has influenced artists down the ages. Drawing from the Gallery’s own collection, this intimate exhibition opens with a large allegorical portrait of the artist sitting at the edge of a landscape, gazing back at souls ascen...

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The Italian Cultural Society is happy to collaborate with the Kennedy Center in promoting: LEONARDISSIMO! – Leonardo da Vinci’s World and Its Waters. Part of the River Run Arts Festival. This stunning multimedia presentation about Leonardo da Vinci delves into the great master’s obsession with water. From the rivers that course through his painting...

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The day-long celebration of the centenary of the Italian Air Force in Washington yesterday, March 28, concluded with a reception hosted by the Italian Embassy in Washington and organized by the Office of the Defense Attaché, attended by members of the Armed Forces and the U.S. State Department and representatives of allied and partner countries."We...

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Starts on Thursday, March 30 · 6pm EDT. Italian Cultural Institute @ Embassy of Italy 3000 Whitehaven St, NW Washington, DC 20008. RSVP required, here. The Embassy of Italy in Washington D.C. and the Italian Cultural Institute invite you to attend the inauguration of "Massimo Listri: Italian Wonder", extraordinary photographic exhibition by world f...

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When Panerai was scouting potential locations for its first-ever store in the D.C. region, Tysons Galleria emerged as an appropriate choice for the self-described “luxury” Italian watchmaker.

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