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Do you Facebook? Blog? How about YouTube? The Umbra Institute is plugged in with all three in an effort to help students see what it's like to live in Perugia before they make their decision to come here. The Umbra... Read MoreFeb | 18
Last Friday, students in Professor Adrian Hoch's Michelangelo course braved the unusually winter weather -- SNOW in Rome! -- to visit some of Michelangelo's most famous works of art. Students started out at the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel,... Read MoreFeb | 15
Four years ago Erin Jordan came to Italy and the first thing she ate was gnocchi, Italy's potato and flour reponse to knoedel. At the Arrival Dinner on her first night in Perugia, Jordan sat down to the table with... Read MoreFeb | 12
In Italian the word for tongue and language, is one and the same: lingua. That's why, in addition to the week of Intensive Italian and the obligatory Italian classes, the Umbra Institute sponsors the Tandem program. Run by staff member Rachel... Read MoreFeb | 08
This past weekend Umbra Institute students headed out for the traditional Italian Carnival (carnevale) celebrations. Most Americans think of Venice as the obvious destination -- and indeed the city has been the spot for carnival celebrations since the Grand Tourists... Read MoreFeb | 05
In 1889 the king and queen of Italy, in a bid to seem closer to their subjects, invited pizza maker Raffaele Esposito to the royal palace outside of Naples to make them pizzas. Esposito turned out three different types: one with... Read More