{"id":171,"date":"2023-04-03T18:23:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consolatocapetown.esteri.it\/chi-siamo\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T08:31:56","slug":"chi-siamo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conscapetown.esteri.it\/en\/chi-siamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Who we are"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Consulate of Italy in Cape Town d\u2019Italia a Cape Town<\/strong> provides consular services<\/a> to Italian and foreign citizens resident in its own consular area (the South African provinces of Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, the British island of Saint Helena).<\/p>\n

The Consul of Italy<\/a> is Giulio Mignacca<\/strong>, assisted by a team of eight employees.<\/p>\n

In the consular area there are also two Honorary Vice Consulates<\/a>, based in Gqeberha and in East London.<\/p>\n

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For further details regarding our offices<\/a> and contacts<\/a>, please visit relative pages.<\/p>\n

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Address<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 Grey’s Pass, Gardens, Cape Town
\nTel +27-21-487 3900
\ne-mail: consolato.capetown@esteri.it<\/a><\/p>\n

Opening hours
\n<\/strong>Monday, Tuesday and Friday 9h00 -12h00
\nThursday 9h00 -12h00 and 14h00 -16h00
\nWednesday: closed to public<\/p>\n

Public entrance is located in Dean St<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Telephone Contacts for Consular Services:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Due to the high number of users, during the hours above the staff in charge of consular services may be unable to answer phone calls as they are at the front desk.
\nTherefore, it is recommended to contact the Offices by phone outside of public reception hours, or to send requests via email to the addresses listed further down on this page.
\nBefore calling, it is advisable to consult the information about the various\u00a0consular services<\/a>\u00a0available on this website.<\/p>\n

For urgent assistance, the \u00a0EMERGENCY \u00a0NUMBER\u00a0<\/strong>+27 (0) 83 398 3010 is active from Monday to Friday from 17.00 to 22.00 and on weekends from 9.00\u00a0to 22.00.
\nFrom 22.00 to 8.00 you may call the telephone operator of the Italian Ministry of the Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation +39 0636 91 26 66.
\nThese numbers must be called only in cases of emergencies which require immediate intervention (i.e. accident, arrest, serious health and family problems, natural disaster).<\/p>\n

Port Elizabeth and East London Honorary Vice Consulates: see\u00a0Consular network<\/a><\/p>\n

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Public holidays<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Consulate will be closed on the following South African and Italian public holidays:<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

\u00b7 1st January \u2013 New Year\u2019s day
\n\u00b7 21 March \u2013 Human Rights Day
\n\u00b7 21 April \u2013 Easter Monday
\n\u00b7 25 April \u2013 Festa della Liberazione (Italian Freedom Day)
\n\u00b7 27 April \u2013 Freedom Day
\n\u00b7 1 May \u2013 Workers\u2019 day
\n\u00b7 2 June \u2013 Italian National Republic day
\n\u00b7 24 September \u2013 Heritage Day
\n\u00b7 16 December \u2013 Reconciliation Day
\n\u00b7 25 December \u2013 Christmas
\n\u00b7 26 December \u2013 Santo Stefano (Boxing Day)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Consulate of Italy in Cape Town d\u2019Italia a Cape Town provides consular services to Italian and foreign citizens resident in its own consular area (the South African provinces of Western Cape, Northern Cape and Eastern Cape, the British island of Saint Helena). The Consul of Italy is Giulio Mignacca, assisted by a team of […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conscapetown.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conscapetown.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conscapetown.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conscapetown.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conscapetown.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/conscapetown.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"https:\/\/conscapetown.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conscapetown.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}