EMBASSY HEADQUARTERS AND AMBASSADOR’S RESIDENCE

Since 1991 the Headquarters of the Embassy of Italy have their see at the urban area "El Rosal", in the Chacao borough, which concentrates the main entrepreneurial and commercial activities in the capital city, Caracas, and 70% of the sees of the Diplomatic and Consular Missions accredited in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
 
The Chancellery occupies the two upper floors of a modern building and it is also see for the Stock Exchange of Caracas.

The Embassy hosts the Office of the Military Attaché and the Offices of the Italian Foreign Commerce Institute (ICE).

Nowadays it is awaiting for the approval of the project “Casa Italia”, an autonomous building complex able to host under an only roof even the Offices of the General Consulate in Caracas.

The villa that hosts the Ambassador of Italy to Venezuela, the “Quinta Miravalle” was built in the early 50s and acquired by the Italian State in 1954.
It has a surface of 650 m2 distributed in two floors and it is located on an area of 2000 m2. It is a classical type building with a traditional distribution, in a Mediterranean style, located in the heart of the well-known residential area of Caracas "Country Club", at the foothill of the mountain which reigns the city, with great extensions of tropical vegetation.
The residence is furnished with English and Dutch pieces and has a valuable collection of oriental rugs.


ITALIAN CHIEFS OF MISSION IN VENEZUELA


Agostino Ferrante di Ruffano                       April 1946 - April 1947

Dino Secco Suardo                                       April 1947 - August 1948

Angiolo Cassinis                                           August 1948 - November 1950

Luigi Vidau                                                    November 1950 - January 1953

Renato Bova Scoppa                                    February 1953 - December 1954

Justo Giusti del Giardino                               December 1954 - May 1958

Giulio del Balzo di Presenzano                     October 1958 - June 1959

Giovanni de Astis                                          November 1959 - November 1962

Girolamo Pignatti Morano di Custoza           November 1962 - September 1967

Ruggero Farace di Villaforesta                     October 1967 -  September 1968

Vittorio Cordero di Montezemolo                  April 1969 - June 1971

Silvio Falchi                                                   September 1971 - January 1977

Guglielmo Folchi                                            January 1977 -  July 1980

Ludovico Incisa di Camerana                        October 1980 - February 1985

Massimiliano Bandini                                    March 1985 - December 1989

Paolo Bruni                                                   March 1990 -  September 1993

Carlo Civiletti                                                October 1993 -  March1997

Vittorio Pennarola                                         March 1997 - February 2000

Adriano Benedetti                                         April 2000 - April 2003      

Gerardo Carante                                          May 2003 - July 2007

Luigi Macotta                                               August 2007 -

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