Italian Cultural Institute
| Address: | Trg bana J. Jelačića 4 |
| Phone: | 4830-208 |
| Fax: | 4830-207 |
| Web: | www.iiczagabria.esteri.it |
| Map: | B5 |
Istituto Italiano di Cultura (The Italian Cultural Institute for Croatia) has been situated in Zagreb, in Opatovina since 1973,from which it moved in 1991,and has been there ever since, to the ground floor and mezzanine of an elegant building Preobraženska 4 (between Jelačić Square and Flower Square).
The Institute has office rooms, a lecture and exhibition room, also used for video and book presentations, a library numbering about nine thousand books, periodicals, daily newspapers and videos. Books and videos can be freely borrowed.Italy boasts ninety-three Italian Cultural Institutes all over the world, mainly in the capital cities, but also in a few of the most important cities. They are autonomous offices, which are responsible for their own programmes of activity to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department for Cultural Promotion and Cooperation in Rome and the Embassy in Zagreb. Their duty is to promote and help the presentation of Italian cultural and scientific events anywhere in the country, to act as intermediaries for scholarships, to provide general information, to give assistance to the teachers of Italian in the national school system and other schools and courses of Italian and to coordinate and give assistance to the university departments of Italian in Croatia and to the Italian lectors who are assigned, on a reciprocal basic, to the Faculties of Philosophy in Zagreb (two lectors), in Pula, University of Rijeka (two lectors) and of Zadar, University of Split.The Institute is engaged in co-organizing art exhibitions, film series, video presentations, music performances, lectures and conferences, book and writers presentations, meeting and press conferences.The Italian Cultural Institute cooperates with a great number of Croatian partners: ministerial, city and regional cultural and scientific departments, festivals, museums and galleries, concert halls, art and music schools, universities, the Croatian committees of the Dante Alighieri Society existing in Zagreb and in other cities and towns, the Italian Union and other cultural and scientific centres, either directly or putting them in touch with similar institutions in Italy.The aim of the Institute is also to provide as thorough an image as possible of Italy both in its historical and contemporary relevance, in its most various aspects and fields and to encourage contacts between the people and favour deeper reciprocal knowledge and understanding.Flavio AndreisDirector of The Italian Cultural Institute, Croatia
