Activities
Our classrooms in Perugia are museums, churches and piazzas featuring medieval & renaissance buildings, sculptures and great people watching!
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Also included with the program are numerous day trips and weekend trips around central Italy.
We will spend 2 days in Florence with walking tours that will include some of the greatest works of art and architecture from the Florentine Renaissance. The Uffizi Gallery http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/, The Accademia, http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/galacc.htm, The Cathedral & Baptistery of Florence, http://www.mega.it/eng/egui/monu/bu.htm, as well as the Ponte Vecchio, The Medici Chapel and more.
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We will also spent 3 days in Rome and tour the Forum, Colosseum and Palantine, http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/2_Rome.html, as well as Trevi Fountain, The Pantheon, http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/211_Pantheon.html, The Vatican Museums, with Michelangelo’s masterwork The Sistine Chapel, http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/1021_Vatican_Museums.html, and St. Peters Basilica. http://sights.seindal.dk/sight/250_Basilica_of_Saint_Peter.html
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Day trips from Perugia will include Assisi, with The Cathedral of St. Francis
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The Roman made waterfalls of Marmora
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The medieval hill towns of Gubbio and Spello to see the amazing Festival of Corpus Christi and the “infiorata” (flower festival). http://www.italianet.tv/foto/infiorata2003/page_01.htm
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Contact: Professor Scott
Lowrey
828-689-1455
slowrey@mhc.edu