Thursday, January 12, 2017

Press conference for Italy’s Cultural Heritage Minister, Dario Franceschini, and the new director of the Palazzo Barberini museum, Flaminia Gennari Santori, January 11th, 2017.


Italy’s Cultural Heritage Minister, Dario Franceschini, and the new director of the Palazzo Barberini museum, Flaminia Gennari Santori, were at a press conference in Rome's Palazzo Barberini (home also to some magnificent paintings by Caravaggio!). 

The two discussed the new fusion of two magnificent museums, Palazzo Barberini (where in 1953 Billy Wyler shot that magnificent movie, “Roman Holiday”, with Audrey Hepburn—her very first movie and an Oscar too—and a dashing Greogry Peck) and Palazzo Corsini: www.barberinicorsini.org




























 

Italian Cultural Heritage Minister, Dario Franceschini, during the press conference held in Rome, January 10th, 2017.

Italian Cultural Heritage Minister Dario Franceschini was on hand to discuss the new financial plans for the archeological area surrounding Italy’s most famous monument, the Coliseum.










Monday, January 09, 2017

Ministers Angelino Alfano and Valeria Fedeli in Rome, January 9th, 2017.


Italian Foreign Affairs Minister, Angelino Alfano, together with the Italian Minister for Education, Valeria Fedeli, during the Rome conference on Italian innovation and the scientific directors of Italy’s foreign diplomacy, January 9th, 2017. 


(Former Secretary-General of the Italian Foreign Affairs ministry, Amb. Umberto Vattani, at the Rome conference). 



(Italian Foreign Affairs Minister, Angelino Alfano, and his Education Minister colleague, Valeria Fedeli, at the Rome conference).