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Florence Campus Lo cation
The Florence campus provides Benedictine College The program is hosted at Villa Morghen, near undergraduate students the opportunity to study Florence, in an area that has been home to elegant villas and hunting reserves of rich Florentine abroad in Italy for a semester. Students at the merchants. Florence campus: • Live for three month in an incredible place under the sun of Tuscany. • Experience Italy’s great food and hospitable people. • Come to better understand other cultures as well as their own. • Form an amazing community even if they didn’t know each other before. • Learn a language and use it with native speakers in real situations. • See more of the world • Visit historic places in Italy and Europe • Take advantage of low-cost transportation. • It is the goal of Benedictine College to have its students in Florence experience: • Beauty in art, nature and relationships • Fellowship while living together for three months • Discovery while living near the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance The Program uses the city of Florence and its surroundings as a grand laboratory. The courses offered draw on the enormous literary and artistic heritage of the city of Florence, widely considered to be the cradle of Italian culture.
Villa Morghen is located in Settignano, a village nestled in the hills about 3 miles from the historic center of Florence. Students can easily take inexpensive public buses to see central Florence’s beautiful architecture and enjoy a gelato.
Cl asses * • • • •
Beginning Italian I (4) Beginning Italian II (4) Florentine history and culture (3) Class offered by a Benedictine faculty member (3) • International Study Reflection (1) Total credit hours: 15
Ac commodation Students take classes and live in Villa Morghen, a beautiful Italian villa more than 500 years old. Benedictine Olivetani monks used it as a monastery for many years. All bedrooms have a view of Florence or the vast garden of the exmonastery, rich with cypress, fir, olive, fig and cherry trees. Visitors also enjoy outdoor evenings while watching the sun set behind historic Florence’s skyline.
Cal endar* Spring Semester October 31 November Early February Mid April Late April
Priority Deadline for Application Orientation meetings on campus Program starts in Florence Visit to Rome, Subiaco, Montecassino Departure
Fall Semester March 31 April Early September Mid November Late November
Priority Deadline for Application Orientation meetings on campus Program starts in Florence Visit to Rome, Subiaco, Montecassino Departure
E xcursions
The program includes guided visits to Subiaco and Montecassino, as well as Assisi and Perugia. * Subject to change. Visit www.benedictine.edu/florence for more details regarding next semester