Art of Italian Living in Siena

Learn Italian language, culture, art, cuisine, and "The Art of Italian Living" in Siena, Italy. Siena, a gothic hill town in the heart of Tuscany, will be your home for five weeks while studying Italian language and culture. In the mornings, you will have Italian language classes taught by local instructors (if you don’t already know some Italian, don’t worry—on this program you can learn Italian in Italy). Your afternoons will be filled with museum visits, cooking courses, and cultural discussions led by experts from the community. Part of the experience will be to learn Siena intimately by studying the contradas and tight-knit small neighborhoods, and leading your classmates on your own neighborhood walks. Through your travel journal assignments, you will creatively reflect on your cultural learning. In the evenings, you will return to your accommodation, where your host will provide a home-cooked dinner and a room in an Italian home. Our field trips will take us to the heart of Italian civilization—ancient and baroque Rome and renaissance Florence—where we will investigate world-famous masterpieces of Italian art history. Through these experiences and more, you will learn "The Art of Italian Living."

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