Destination: Fall Break

Oct | 23

Mid-terms are over (hooray!) and students are cashing in their hard earned reward--a week off for Fall Break. Some students will spend it with their visiting families while others will travel around Europe. Paris to Prague, Alicante to Amsterdam, Umbra... Read More
Scientific Evidence For Snack Breaks

Oct | 18

A new study has shown that the combination of lactose in milk and the gluten-chocolate complex in chocolate chip cookies produces a synergistic reaction which increases brainpower and raises concentration levels more than 23%. Nope, we're just kidding, actually, but... Read More
Pizza Workshop

Oct | 16

Last night was the last in a series of different workshops offered to Umbra students. Umbra students partook in a Pizza Workshop at local pizzeria Pizza e Musica. Students learned from owner, Felice, what goes into making the pizza dough,... Read More
Fresco Students in Rome

Oct | 15

Last Friday, Professor Bill Pettit took students from Umbra's Fresco Painting courses out of the studio and down to Rome on search of inspiration from antiquity. Students started out at the Basilica of San Clemente where they saw the evolution... Read More
Eurochocolate Oozes into Perugia

Oct | 10

The first shops have already been set up in Corso Vannucci and the three piazzas that will host this year's edition of the Eurochocolate Festival. Starting this coming Friday the festival kicks off, with a melee of chocolate crunching and munching (and... Read More
Perugia Named No. 2 Fall European Destination

Oct | 09

The Hotel Club Travel Blog, a subsidiary of the popular online travel engine Orbitz, has named Perugia the number 2 top European travel destination for the fall! First and foremost the blog mentioned the upcoming EuroChocolate festival, during which Perugia... Read More

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