Embassy of Italy in Abu Dhabi

Consulates ensure all co-nationals protection against the violation of their fundamental rights and the limitation or privation of their personal freedom. They also ensure emergency assistance, help in locating family members, inheritance procedures initiated abroad and for the repatriation of mortal remains.

Since October 2010, the Italian Embassy in Abu Dhabi is the headquarter of the first Italian Cultural Department for the Gulf Area. The Department’s objectives are:

• the promotion of the diffusion of the Italian language and of university exchanges;

• the facilitation and/or direct management of great cultural events with regards to art, music, cinema and design.

The Cultural Department has the overall aim of enhancing the cultural dialogue between the two Countries, by enrolling its expressions in an Institutional framework and also by facilitating the reach of artistic expressions from the Gulf to Italy and Europe.