Study - Holiday
Study In The Heart Of Italy

COURSE DURATION: 4 weeks (100 hours)
3 weeks (75 hours)
2 weeks (50 hours)

Our school is the only one in Italy where you not only get a wonderful and inexpensive holiday learning Italian, but are able to participate with your teachers as guides, in a wide range of activities:

Visit beautiful Italian cities (Rome, Florence, Assisi, Siena, Venezia etc.)
Discover some of the wonder of the Marche (its castles, ancient villages, beautiful countryside…)
Visit some of Italy’s traditional events and celebrations, gastronomic fairs and folk festivals
Spend days in the mountains and by the sea
Make new Italian friends
Meet students from around the world during the evening entertainments at the school, (welcome cocktail, international dinner, Italian music evening, farewell end of course dinner)

Study - Holiday In Castelraimondo

The Teachers Partecipate in All Activities
So You'll Always Have The Opportunity To Speak Italian!

MORNING: (FROM MONDAY TO SATURDAY 9.00 – 13.00)

INTENSIVE COURSES IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: 80 hours of classes of max. 14-16 students, helping you to learn and speak Italian quicker.
The teachers are all young and friendly, we have students from all around the world and of all ages!

LEVELS: All levels from beginner to advanced are available.
In summer refresher courses for teachers are available. We also can arrange lessons for: individual conversation, grammar, business Italian, Italian for opera singers, Italian for the tourism and hotel industry etc.

AFTERNOON

LESSONS IN ITALIAN CULTURE, EXCURSIONS AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Sports activities, linguistic games, cultural lessons, coach trips to discover the nearby historic towns, villages, natural sights such as the Frasassi caves, or visits to the businesses that produce some of the Marche’s traditional food and drink (wine, pasta, honey, cheese, salumi etc)
Always talking in Italian and always accompanied by your teachers!

EVENING

Once or twice a week the school organizes evenings with the students such as a welcome cocktail, international dinner, Italian music and song evening, Italian films and end of course dinner.
You can get to know better not only your course companions but can make many new friends in Castelraimondo by visiting the town in the evenings in the many bars and pubs. The town is small and quiet and completely safe to visit alone or with friends and you’ll find it easy to get to know the people of the town.
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WEEK-END

We will take you to some of Italy’s most beautiful cities: Florence, Rome or Venice, Perugia, Assisi, Gubbio, San Marino, Siena, Urbino etc.
Besides all this every month you can take part in one of our free Special Events (Venice carnival, Palio di Siena, historical re-enactments, traditional Italian festivals and much more!)
Our excursions in comfortable tourist coaches always include the teachers too.

FREE TIME

The study holiday here in Castelraimondo is full of things for you to do when you’re not in class, there’s a vast range of cultural and social activities to take part in, or you can decide for yourself what to do in your free time
Castelraimondo is a small quiet town immersed in lush green scenery, yet strategically positioned and well connected to the rest of Italy.
Pizzerias, restaurants and bars are open until late into the night.
Everything in Castelraimondo can be reached on foot, the people in town are used to seeing students from all over the world and are welcoming and helpful, it is a great way to meet people and practice your Italian in a friendly safe environment.
Castelraimondo hosts throughout the school year many students and teachers from the University of Camerino.

SPORT FACILITIES: There are excellent facilities for sports lovers in Castelraimondo
The hills around our school are a walker’s paradise, as well as walking and hiking in the countryside there’s:

Mountain biking - Jogging
Tennis (both indoor and outdoor)
Football – Basketball - Volleyball
Bocce (a very traditional Italian pastime)
Skiing (70 km from the school)
Canoeing (the lake is only 20 km from the school)

IF YOU WANT TO DO SOME TRAVELLING ON YOUR OWN:

The train from Castelraimondo station is perfect for connections all over Italy
(the direct train takes you to the beach in only 50 minutes!)
Buses go to all major nearby towns
Car hire
Ancona-Falconara airport is only 70 km from the school with low cost flights to Sicily, London, Paris and Barcelona.
Ferries from Ancona port leave every day for Greece and Croatia.

SHOPPING
The Marche is a fantastic place for those who love to shop at bargain prices, some of the most famous Italian designers have factory outlets here such as Armani, Prada, Tod’s, Diego della Valle, Gabrielli, Guzzini, Biblios and the Marche’s speciality – shoes from some of the very best names in Italy.

ENROL NOW: OVER 3000 STUDENTS HAVE TAKEN OUR COURSES
TO BECOME EXCELLENT ITALIAN SPEAKERS!!!
COURSE DURATION: 4 weeks (100 hours) – 3 weeks (75 hours) - 2 weeks (50 hours)

CALENDAR 2008
Courses start on Monday, students may arrive the Sunday before.

MONTH	Start	End
JANUARY	01/07	02/01
FEBRUARY	02/04	02/29
MARCH	03/03	03/28
APRIL	03/31	04/24
MAY	05/05	05/30
JUNE	06/03	06/27

MONTH	Start	End
JULY	06/30	07/25
AUGUST	08/04	08/29
SEPTEMBER	09/01	09/26
OCTOBER	10/06	10/31
NOVEMBER	11/03	11/28

National Holidays: 24 March, 27 April, 2 June, 15 August.

Scuola di Italiano Dante Alighieri s.r.l.
Corsi di Lingua e Cultura Italiana per Stranieri
Italian Language School - Italian Language Course
Sede per esami CELI dell'Università per Stranieri di Perugia
Via E. Mattei, 69 - 62022 Castelraimondo (MC) - ITALIA Tel./Fax +39 0737 642611
Sede Legale: Via Farnese, 17 - 62032 CAMERINO (MC) - ITALIA
Codice Fiscale e P.IVA: 01501180432
Segreteria: centroalighieri@scuoladantealighieri.org
Direzione (dott.ssa Anna Poeti): direzione@scuoladantealighieri.org