TODI 2021

Webcam Todi, Piazza del Popolo

TODI 2021
Dates TBA

SUMMERTIME in Todi: Discover the real Italy in Umbria!

In Todi, a gorgeous Umbrian hill town, students enjoy living the "Italia" lifestyle: food, people, art, nature.
You can live with an Italian family or in an independent apartment or hotel.
Italian language lessons will be held during the morning and cultural activities in the afternoon.
$TBA per person (Accommodation with a family)
Accommodation at an independent apartment or hotel, TBA

$TBA deposit by April 16, final payment by May 11, 2021

Many of our students go regularly to the language school in Todi and stay with local families. Feel free to call if you wish to talk with them. Roberta 215 735 3250

Itinerary of Cultural Activities and Excursions 2021:
It may change
SUNDAY

We’ll meet at Rome International Airport Fiumicino FCO at 10:30 am for private transportation to Todi.
Benvenuti a Todi! Get settled and meet your host family!
15:30 Guided tour of the city and Aperitiviamo (let’s have a chat and get a drink together!) A chance to have a chat in Italian outside the classroom in a relaxed situation seated at the bar drinking a Prosecco or a delicious fruit juice cocktails together with your teacher!
(Evening) Dinner with your host family.

MONDAY

(Morning) Breakfast with your host family
(9:00-13:00) Language class
(15.00 pm – 18.30 pm)
Half-day excursion to Rasiglia: a visit to Rasiglia, a hidden water-wonderland in Umbria! It is called “the mini Venice of the Umbria region”. Founded between three springs, it has clear waters lapping houses and poetic lakes in place of squares. Rasiglia is also home to beautiful monuments – such as the Trinci Castle and the Sanctuary of the Madonna of the Graces, with its religious 15th-century frescoes – and is dotted of industrial archaeology sites, such as the remains of old fulling mills, grain mills, wool and dyeing factories.
(Evening) Dinner with your host family

TUESDAY

(Morning) Breakfast with your host family
(9:00-13:00) Language class
(15.30) POGGIO BRICO – BIO FARM – Biological Farming combines the best of conventional and organic farming with an emphasis on attaining naturally productive soils that display high levels of biological activity. You will have an excursion of the farm and you will have a walk in its natural surroundings; FINALLY you will taste some typical BIO products such as special home-made jams and the real medieval spelt.
(Evening) Dinner with your host family

WEDNESDAY

(Morning) Breakfast with your host family
(9:00-13:00) Language class
(15.00-18.30) Perugia is an Italian medieval hill town, home to the International University for Foreigners, the University of Perugia, the Music Conservatory of Perugia as well as
other recognised academic institutions. Perugia is home to many of Italian finest Opera singers, like Antonietta Stella, Anita Cerquetti, Mario Sereni, Carmen Gonzales, Mario Petri, Marina Comprato and Paolo Coni, who worked closely with Pavarotti. The town also hosts renowned music festivals
like Umbria Jazz and the Sagra Musicale Umbra, attracting world-famous musicians and enthusiastic fans and making Perugia, in the heart of Italy, literally beat!
The city is also known for cultural events: the main draw in the summer is Umbria Jazz, Italy’s foremost jazz event.Its rich artistic and cultural patrimony and the natural environment make Perugia a unique city of major importance, since its origins. In Perugia one can sample good wines and many of the traditional Umbrian foods associated with festivals celebrating or religious festivities.
(Evening) Dinner with your host family

THURSDAY

(Morning) Breakfast with your host family
(9:00-13:00) Language class
(17:00) ITALIAN COOKING COURSE – Umbrian Cooking class in Italian with an Italian family
(Evening) Dinner at the end of the Cooking Class

FRIDAY

(Morning) Breakfast with your host family
(9:00-13:00) Language class
(16.00) GAITE MARKET IN BEVAGNA, half day excursion plus typical dinner: the most famous medieval festival in Italy. The event recreates the daily life of Bevagna between the 13th and the 14th century. During the festival streets and squares get populated by people dressed in carefully reproduced medieval costumes, many old workshops take life and open their doors to show ancient working techniques to thousands of spectators and tourists coming every year to experience this special atmosphere.
Dinner at the Gaite in Bevagna.

SATURDAY

Final Day! See you in Todi in 2022!

Cost per person: $TBA
Price includes

Italian classes (20 hours),
course book, La Lingua La Vita folder with pen, photocopies, welcome card, entry test, application form, TULPA certificate,
accommodation with a family in a single room, with private bathroom
every day, breakfast, and
one meal (usually dinner),
cultural activities: transportation, entry tickets, cooking class with wine.

Each private transfer from Todi to Rome (and Rome to Todi) costs TBA (usually 49,00 euro per person).

Price does not includes the dinner at Gaite Market in Bevagna and tickets to museums and churches.

Student Reviews

Fiorenza and the cooking class

Perugia

Todi, valle del Tevere

Todi

Rasiglia

Lunch after class

Small classes in historical palace

Todi, FIAT 500, old model.

Poggio Brico, real slow food

Todi

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