Taormina: Study Italian, Discover Sicily

Study Italian, Discover Sicily

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Among many Italian language programs in Italy and many Italian courses, are you looking for study abroad programs and courses of Italian in Sicily? If you want to take an Italian course in Sicily and meanwhile have the chance to explore and experience life in this beautiful island, then you have got the right institute!

Learn Italian in Italy and take part to the full immersion Italian courses we offer: Italian language courses in a group (max 10 students per class) or Italian private courses. Our Italian language school in Taormina, Sicily, offers study Italian classes from one week up to one year! And with the Italian language courses, you will be also offered a program of social and cultural activities and free assistance in finding accommodation in Taormina.

Our Center for Italian Studies has developed summer study abroad programs and short-term programs in Sicily with the following U.S. institutions:

• Elon University (faculty led program)
• Montclair State University (faculty led program)
• Auburn University (faculty led program)

and, in the past, credits for independent studies for studying at our institute have been granted by several other Universities in USA.

Students attending U.S. Universities and enrolled in our short-term Italian language programs and full-immersion programs, wanting to get academic credits for their study abroad in Italy program, can have their Italian language courses, Italian history courses, Italian art history courses reviewed for college and academic credits.

Taormina the most beautiful town in Sicily, an old hilltop town full of history and culture and by the sea. Taormina is famous for its beauty, its incredible heritage in history, archaeology and architecture, as well as for its reputation in welcoming travellers. Taormina is perfectly situated to offer students easy access to the beautiful and historically important treasures of Sicily.

Taormina is like a treasure chest of history: walking along its main street, Corso Umberto, and the maze of narrow staircased streets and small beautiful squares, you find Theatres and Gymnasium from the Greek Age, Odeon and Baths from the Roman Age, beautiful buildings in which the Arab and the Norman cultures melt together in a memorable sense of beauty, traces of the Byzantine domination and beautiful villas which belonged to the European aristocracy in the XVIII and XIX centuries, all in the context of a small town on top of the hill of Monte Tauro, overlooking the coastline of the Ionian Sea.

Taormina plays a fundamental role as one of the most important archaeological locations in Italy. In fact, the Greeks, fathers of Italian and European culture, settled their first colony in Italy exactly here in the Bay of Naxos, in 735 BC. Taormina is home to one of the most famous Greek Theatres in the world. Here, in summertime the main events of the International Film, Music, Dance and Theatre Festival of Taormina Arte take place.

If, beyond learning Italian in Italy and a full immersion study abroad stay, you also want a fuller cultural experience in Sicily, you can choose our Culture Courses ("The Sicilian writers in the Italian Literature"; "The History of Sicily" and "Art History in Sicily") or our Italian plus programs (Cooking, Sicilian Pottery & Decoration, Hiking & Trekking, Diving, Mountain Biking, Golf) and combine them with our Italian language courses.

Additional program(s) information and brochure, please contact us at tel. (718) 631-0096 or
e-mail : mgiamma@verizon.net