Dec | 11
Every semester Umbra students protest that they have no talents, and yet every semester we of the staff are shocked at just how gifted they are. Last Thursday’s Spettacolo di Fine Corso (End of Semester Show, the talent show) was... Read MoreDec | 06
Yesterday evening, December 5th, was the Umbra Institute’s thrice-annual Student Art Exposition. Refreshments were served while student artists talked about their pieces with other students, faculty, staff and (a pleasant surprise!) a respectable number of visitors from the community. One... Read MoreNov | 29
Starting December 20th, Perugia’s Sant’Egidio Airport will clear it’s runways for a welcome addition, Ryan Air. Perugia will soon have direct connections to one of Europe’s most popular travel destinations, London, England. Ryan Air is Europe’s original and largest low... Read MoreNov | 28
Paintings of Italian landscapes, of raw meat, and of abstractions; poems of love lost and laughs had; songs about living on Venus and cold beer at five; homemade wine and an olive orchard in the backyard. It's Umbra Institute's own... Read MoreNov | 21
Today I had one of the best experiences of my Italian adventure. We didn't take a train anywhere. In fact, our destination was about a twenty minute walk from our school. There were no famous pieces of art or history... Read MoreNov | 19
Chocolate lovers from all over Italy and Europe descended on Perugia this weekend as the thirteenth annual Eurochocolate festival began on Saturday. Eurochocolate is a ten day chocolate festival where vendors from all over Europe exhibit their newest chocolate creations... Read More