Nun in Voice of Italy !!!!
La suora Cristina
Il cinema Italiano
Once again with the help of the embassy and the University of Cyprus will be organized 2 screenings of Italian movies:
La kryptonite nella borsa, Thursday 27 of February at 19:30 at University of Cyprus, Aglantzia
Due partite, Thursday, 13 of March at 21:00 at Goethe Institute, Nicosia
Free entrance
More info on the website of the Italian embassy
Italy is getting ready for Natale
Like always in this time of the year, in Italy there are different kinds of competitions – the biggest Christmas tree, the most expensive decorated one, his majesty – Il Panettone and many others.
What definitely is catching our attention is the biggest Christmas tree, so called Gubbio Christmas tree
This tree (650 meters high and 350 meters wide) has a tradition old more than 20 years and it is thanks to the local people that we can still every Christmas enjoy it’s shine!
But there is more…what about this kind of his majesty Mr Panettone ?
The example on this picture is done in gold and diamonds on request of a rich Russian gentlemen for only 80.000 euro !
Actually he refused the standard rich version of traditional Christmas cake of 800 euro (with eatable gold and Swarovski crystals) and asked for a very different one – and his wish became true!
Oriana Fallaci’s “Letter to a child never born”
Many Italian happenings in Cyprus this December, starting with film screening organized by the Italian embassy and some surprises on Rik 2 !
This time something different will take a place- best seller play “Letter to a child never born ” – a dialogue between a mother and her eventually miscarried child, based on the book of Oriana Fallaci will be played for one time only at Markideion Theatre of Paphos.
For more info visit the page of Cyprus events.
We remember the author, Oriana Fallaci, 
as an Italian journalist, political interviewer ( the most popular ones with Indira Gandhi, Willy Brandt, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Muammar Gaddafi, Yasser Arafat and many others) and author of many books.
More Italian films in Cyprus!
For all who love Italian movies Italian embassy organized screening of movies that recently played in italian cinemas. On this Italian Thursdays we will see : Si puo’ fare, Lo spazio bianco and Un giorno perfetto.
For the time and place of screenings check website of the Italian embassy in Cyprus.
Etna new eruption on Saturday 23rd of November
Italian largest volcano Etna woke up again, the sixth time this year, spewing ash on a nearby towns, but also this time sending a rain of volcanic stones.
And it is time for – Calendario 2014!
In this period of the year, the pre-festive Christmas season, in Italy there are always whispers of arrival of the calendars for the year to come. And of course the competiotion who will make the best one!
One of the most famouse, and favourite between male sex, thanks to gorgeous ladies, is definitelly The Pirelli’s Calendar.
But there is also another famous Italian brand that already 15 years is making awesome calendars, last year with Penelope Cruz… and this year Il Grouppo Campari prepared for us something different, but still red, as the colour of their famous aperitivo.
The 2014 Calendar named ‘a window of the world’ presents Uma Thurman, the Pulp Fiction star.
The idea of the photographer, Koto Bolofo is that with the glass of Campari Uma, dress in Versace and Stella McCartney’s pieces, takes us for a virtual tour all arround the globe, showing us the most famous world festivals, from Spring Festival in Beijing, the biggest celebration in China, to Hanami in Japan where people enjoy the cherry blossoms of Spring. The calendar also heads to Midsummer’s Eve in England, where revellers celebrate the Summer Solstice at the historic Stonehenge, ant then to Tanzania, Usa, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Italy, Mexico, Australia to finish with month of December in Brazil.
Take a tour
Puccini’s Tosca in Rialto!
A bit more of Italian culture- this weekend in Limassol – Tosca, Puccini’s opera.
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou‘s 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples‘s control of Rome threatened by Napoleon‘s invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes some of Puccini’s best-known lyrical arias, and has inspired memorable performances from many of opera’s leading singers…..
For more info and booking the ticket visit Rialto site.
Roberto Mr. Pasta- real Italian pizza in Limassol!
Very hot in our town and delicious too – pizza done by an Italian pizzaiolo Roberto. We did try and we like it !
Check his facebook page and chose your favorite pizza or pasta – Roberto Mr. Pasta
International Short Film Festival!
For all lovers of short film from 12.10.13 until 18.10.13 will be hold International Short film Festival, organized by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus and the RIALTO Theatre. ISFFC aims to promote the art of cinema, presenting a variety of short films coming from Cyprus and around the world. An International Jury awards the best films, on a national and international level.
There are also some Italian directors, so you can practise all knowledge we gained on our Italian lessons.
For more info and screening time visit site of International short film Festival