(27 May 2016) Gastronomy, tourism, music and lots of activities for the young and old. Also returning this year is the timely rendezvous with ‘Made in Italy’ specialties in Spain: the eighth edition of “Italian Passion”, organised by the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Spain, in collaboration with the main Italian institutions in the country, will be held from June 2nd until the 5th at the Italian School in Madrid (Calle Agustín de Betancourt, 1). June 3rd will be dedicated to operators in the food, wine and tourism sectors. In fact, business to business meetings will be organised at the Consular headquarters of the Italian Embassy, in which companies, consortiums, distributors, importers and local tour operators, invited by the CCIS, will take part. The next day, greetings by the Italian Ambassador, Stefanno Sannino in the presence of the President of CCIS, Marco Pizzi, and representatives of various Italian Institutions in Spain. Among this year’s novelties are the “Championship of pizza d’auteur” (Thursday, June 2) in collaboration with Pizzamore and the University of Italian Pizza in the world, and the qualifying stages of the “World Championship of pesto Genovese “(Saturday, June 4) in cooperation with the Palatifini association. (Sip)