Cultural activities

The Italian Academy

The Italian Academy, established in 1984, is a boutique Italian language and culture centre offering top quality language tuition with highly qualified and experienced teachers. It is located in the heart of Siracusa, next to the archaeological museum and park, within a short walking distance of the main shopping streets of the city, the island of Ortygia and the beach.

Associazione culturale artistica SIKARTE

The SIKARTE Cultural-Artistic Association is a non-profit organization that exclusively pursues cultural purposes by promoting and organizing events in the area of ​​visual, musical, literary and theatrical arts.
Sikarte’s mission is spreading the art and its knowledge with cultural activities as exhibitions and events, such as educational workshops, guided tours and similar; extending the knowledge of artistic culture in general, through the web and contacts between people, organizations and associations, encouraging the activities of emerging and professionals artists.

AGESCI REGIONE SICILIA

AGESCI (Association of Italian Catholic Guides and Scouts) is an educational association also present in Sicily with over 200 groups and 15,000 members.
The Regional Office is located in an asset confiscated from the mafia granted on loan for use by the Municipality of Gravina di Catania.
Inside, its own Study and Documentation Center is responsible for preserving and disseminating one's "memory". To protect the collected documentation, the archive was recognized as "of considerable historical interest" by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage.

Fondazione Città del Fanciullo

The City of the Child Foundation Acireale is a non-profit organization, with the aim of social and cultural promotion. It pursues wide-ranging educational and training purposes and collaborates with realities and subjects that move in areas that favor the growth and integral development of the person in civil society, also through innovative paths.

Pro Loco Lentini

The Pro Loco of Lentini is a Third Sector Entity belonging to the Unpli associative network, with over 600,000 members and 6,200 Pro Loco distributed throughout the National Territory. In Lentini it operates both in its office with registered office in Via Lisia, 3 and in the Tourist Information and Reception Office (IAT) set up on the ground floor of Palazzo di Città, and authorized by the Sicily Region with note no. 7/3/2018 in Via C. Alaimo, 1.

Pro Loco Riviera dei Ciclopi

The Pro Loco is a no-profit voluntary association carrying out its work in the context of numerous and varied sectors: from tourism to cultural, social, food and wine, preservation and recovery of architectural assets, environmental resources, the recovery of popular traditions and crafts (the so-called intangible culture), with the unique and exclusive purpose of promoting and enhancing the area of ​​relevance.

Circolo Didattico "M. Rapisardi"

The "Mario Rapisardi" institute of Catania is a kindergarten and primary school. It has a single complex: a garden floor with 8 sections of kindergarten, three of which are municipal, and three upper floors with offices and 29 primary school classes. The student population is about 700 pupils. As for human resources, the institution makes use of stable, expert teachers with high professional skills and trained and available ATA staff.

Società Storica Catanese (HSC)

La Società Storica Catanese è un’associazione culturale fondata il 20 Ottobre 1955. Ha lo scopo di difendere il patrimonio storico, artistico, monumentale e diffondere l’amore per Catania e la Sicilia nel mondo.

Questa associazione culturale da oltre sessanta anni costituisce uno dei fulcri del panorama culturale internazionale.

ASSOCIAZIONE ITALIANA BIBLIOTECHE

The Italian Library Association, founded in 1930, is the recognized national association that represents libraries and, pursuant to Law 4/2013, the profession of librarian in Italy. It takes care of the updating of librarians and is present in the MiSE list of non-ordinistic associations authorized to issue qualification certificates to its members.