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Florence

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Setting

An international city of art and culture, Florence is small and beautiful with splendid squares and narrow streets flanked by medieval and Renaissance buildings. It is encircled by hills and divided by the Arno River.

The city is rich in art and history. During the Renaissance, Florence was the intellectual and artistic capital of Europe,  and the Medici, originally a banking family, dominated the city and became patrons of the arts. The city was home to the most celebrated writers and artists in history: Giotto, Donatello, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Dante. The artists and their patron family have left their presence everywhere, in awesome monuments and museums which include Michelangelo's David and the Uffizi Gallery.

Now, life pulses around the historical center of medieval and Renaissance character. As in the past, Florence welcomes, as friends, scores of foreigners descending into the city to study Italian culture, language and art.

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Available Programs

Lorenzo de'Medici

Located in the heart of Florence, the Lorenzo De' Medici school provides Italian language and cultural instruction to students since 1972. The school offers a vast range of courses to its students to learn Italian and to take studio art, art history, liberal arts, business, communications and other classes for an academic year (or longer), semester, intersession or during the summer. Except for Italian, courses are taught in English. Supplementary courses and programs (by the week or month) are also available for Italian language and culture.

Istituto Europeo

Founded in 1984, the Istituto Europeo has students from all over the world and from every region in Italy who study fashion, design, interior design, textile design, drawing & painting, and window displays. All classes are taught in Italian.

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