PH Ambassador to Vienna, NCCA Chairman Explore Ways to Promote Filipino Culture, Arts in Austria
PHOTO: Ambassador to Austria Maria Cleofe R. Natividad paid a courtesy call on National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Chairman and National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario on 26 March 2019 at the NCCA Office in Intramuros, Manila.
Ambassador Natividad and Chairman Almario discussed possible cultural projects that the Philippine Embassy in Vienna and the NCCA could pursue together and implement in Austria, especially in the lead up to the 75th anniversary of the Philippine-Austrian relations in 2021.
They agreed that any such projects should build on the strong historical tradition between the Philippines and Austria. This bilateral relation could be personified in the friendship between Dr. Jose Rizal, who visited Vienna in 1887, and Professor Ferdinand Blumentritt, a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. (Vienna PE photo)
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