Apr | 02
With Monday as a national holiday, students have the day off which equates to a long weekend. Some students are gone for a last weekend away, outside of Italy, while others will spend the weekend with their families who are... Read MoreMar | 31
Today is the last day of March, and the Spring 2010 students officially have less than one month left in Perugia and at the Umbra Institute. Knowing how quickly this month will fly by, here are Umbra's Top Five Must-Do's... Read MoreMar | 29
This past weekend was the semi-annual Umbra optional trip to Sorrento and the surrounding area, the Amalfi Coast. Staff members Mauro Renna and Zach Nowak met sleepy students in Piazza Italia on Friday morning at 6am, where the adventure began.... Read MoreMar | 24
Just as the weather in Perugia is starting to warm up and the main corso is filling with caffe tables and white umbrellas, students in Umbra's Food Cultures class had a chance to visit a local artisanalgelateria to see how Italy's... Read MoreMar | 22
Her name is a little bit different in Italian, but that didn't present any sort of linguistic barrier to the Umbra Institute students participating in a fundraiser for Unicef. The project involves sewing together rag dolls, which are then sold... Read MoreMar | 19
Starting April 11, Perugia's Galleria Nazionale will be be displaying two-hundred and forty photographs by Steve McCurry--most well-known for his work during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.McCurry shot the famous photograph "Afghan Girl" (whose name he later found out to... Read More