FLORENCE - City of art and studies

The city of Florence

Florence is known all over the world as the city of art, the capital of the Renaissance, and one of the most important centers of literary and scientific culture. Florence is the capital city of Tuscany;  it is located in the north-central part of Italy, between Rome and Milan. It is crossed by the Arno river and it is surrounded north and east by the mountain chain of the Apennines, south by the gentle Chianti hills (the famous wine production area) and west by the Valdarno plain. The city has about 500.000 citizens, but if you also consider the people living in the various towns of the metropolitan area (Fiesole, Bagno a Ripoli, Scandicci, Calenzano, Campi Bisenzio, Sesto Fiorentino), the tourists who visit every year (about 4.000.000), the Italian students who study at universities and at various other schools (about 40.000), the foreign students (about 20.000), the commuters (about 30.000) and the domiciled immigrants (about 50.000), more than one million people "live" in the city every day. Florence has one of the world's largest historic centers, which has such a huge number of monuments and works of art that you have the feeling you will never finish visiting and getting to know it. It seems incredible that almost half of the Italian artistic heritage is located in this city! ..... not to mention the works of art in other Italian cities, like Venice and Rome, which, all together, make up half of the world's artistic heritage!

Florence: the right place for your studies!

Florence, for many reasons, is the ideal place to learn Italian or to improve your knowledge of the language. It is the city where the Italian language was born and where it evolved. Therefore it is here where the purest form of Italian is spoken with its distinctive and unique dialectal inflection. Florence has an immense and rich artistic heritage and therefore it has become one of the world's artistic and cultural centers. Florence is located in the heart of the Tuscany region and in less than one hour it is possible to reach towns like Siena, Lucca, Pisa, Arezzo, San Gimignano, Cortona, Pienza, Volterra and the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. Florence is a rather small university and tourist city and its historic center is free from traffic and far from the metropolitan industrial area. Therefore it is the perfect environment to attend a course of study. It is a quiet city with a low crime rate. Florence is not only rich in famous museums, churches, palaces and monuments, but also in typical small restaurants ("trattorie"), where it is possible to taste delicious Tuscan dishes, and in countless typical places where you can enjoy the evening, meet people and amuse yourself. Florence offers plenty of live music events and shows in any period of the year. It is also rich in gardens and parks where you can relax. It has the world's most famous fashion designers shops, as well as the typical artisan shops ("botteghe"), where it is still possible to watch painters and artists at work. During traditional events and historical re-enactments you have the feeling you are transported into Dante's or Michelangelo's time. The present and the past merge in the typical alleys of this city. For these reasons more and more tourists and students come to stay in the city and study at an Italian language school in Florence, thus creating an extremely intense cultural exchange. Studying Italian at an Italian language school in Italy means having the opportunity to live the Italian culture everyday and to practise the Italian language constantly. Studying Italian at an Italian language school in Florence also means having an unforgettable experience in the city where the Italian language was born and where the most correct form of the language is still spoken. Also for this reason every year about 40% of the students enrolled at Italian language schools in Italy chooses to attend a course at an Italian language school in Florence.

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