Tuesday, December 10, 2013

2014 SUMMER SCHOLARSHIPS, Italian Language Courses


EXTRA ACTIVITIES: field trips (for a small extra fee):
- Trip to Treviso, one of the most elegant and wealthy cities of Italy North East, ideal location for shopping
- Trip to Gorizia, and its castle
- Visit to the only International Mosaics School in the world, located in Spilimbergo (PN)
- Tour of Trieste and of the beautiful Miramare Castle
- Tour of the Roman and early-Christian archeological site and museum in Concordia Sagittaria
- Trip to the medieval town of Portogruaro
- Boat trip in the lagoon
- Trip to Cividale del Friuli, the longobard town

ACCOMODATION
Centro IL FARO is available to help finding the best accommodation in private apartments, hotels or host families.

For any further information please contact us at info@ilfarolingua.it or your Italian department.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Robert Capa - La realtà di fronte


From 19 October 2013 to 19 January 2014, Villa Manin, Friuli Venezia Giulia, will host a major retrospective dedicated to the famous photographer Robert Capa (1913-1954), considered the father of modern photojournalism.
They will be featured in the Exhibition all the major experiences that characterize the work of Robert Capa: the Paris years, the Spanish Civil War, the War between China and Japan, the Second World War with the Normandy landings, the Russia of the Second World War, the birth of the state of Israel and, finally, the conflict in Indochina, where Capa died in 1954.

EXHIBITION VENUESVilla Manin (Passariano di Codroipo - Udine)
TICKETS:
  • Full rate: € 8,00
  • Reduced rate: € 5,00
  • Reduced rate groups: € 4,00
EXHIBITION OPENING HOURS:
  • Tuesday to Friday: 10-13 / 15-18
  • Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays: 10-19
  • Closed on Mondays
  • 24 and 25 December and 1 January 2014: closed
  • 31 December: 10-13


Thursday, June 6, 2013

FluSSidiverSi: poetry festival/Caorle from 7th to 9th June 2013


FluSSidiverSi: Poems and poets of the Alpe Adria region, is a festival, from 7th to 9th June 2013 in Caorle, organised by the Alps Adriatic Working Community, the Veneto Region and the Caorle town council.

The exhibition is basically a symposium with poets, translators, editors and live music in the "campielli" of Caorle with breakfasts and dinners with the poets, artistic workshops for children in squares and on the beach.

This edition will be dedicated to Vivian Lamarque.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Summer 2013 - Our Italian Courses


Il Faro is a small and friendly school, specialized in teaching the Italian language and culture to foreigner students, situated in the historic city centre, in Caorle.
Caorle is a popular holiday place near Venice on the Adriatic Coast, with a mild, healthy climate and facilities for sport and entertainment.
The lessons are held by experienced mother-tongue teachers using the direct communicative teaching method and motivating the students to partecipate actively in their lessons and extra-curricular activities.
The friendly school team also
-looks for your accomodation
-arranges guided excursions with the teachers to places of particular cultural and historical interest
Key Feature
-suitable for students aged 6 to 90 years old

Courses:
  • Italian Language and Culture Courses (Intensive)
  • Italian History
  • Italian History of Art
  • Italian Literature
  • One to One (Private lessons)
  • Master Class Over 50
  • Conversation Class
  • Business Italian
  • Italian for Law

    Contacts:
    Il Faro – Centro di lingua e cultura italiana
    Via Eraclea 2 – 30021 Caorle (Venezia)
    Mobile: 0039 3338927127
    www.ilfarolingua.it

Thursday, May 9, 2013

May 12th: the Sensa Festival (Venice)



The Sensa Festival commemorates a historical event that took place on Ascension Day, May 9th 1000. On that day,  Doge Pietro Orseolo II left Venice at the head of a great fleet, to defend the inhabitants of Zara and Dalmatia against the incursions of Croatians and Narentines. Before leaving, the Doge boarded the cerimonial galley, the Bucintoro, and set out to sea along San Nicolò di Lido Canal, while  the Bishop of Venice gave his blessing to the Adriatic. Having reached the mouth of the harbour, the Doge then threw a golden ring into the sea to symbolically marry Venice to the sea and demonstrate  the Serenissima's domination of the gulf. Every year since then, the Doge (now the Mayor of Venice) has repeated this solemn ritual. The re-enactment of this cerimony is also accompained by numerous other attractions, including the Sensa market in the cloisters of the San Nicolò church on the Lido, and the Voga alla Veneta rowing races - the water parade staged by Associazioni Remiere (Venice Rowing Club)

Friday, February 22, 2013

Literary Trieste Tour



This stroll in the town centre of Trieste is an opportunity to breathe the atmosphere that inspired some among the greatest Italian and European writers and to visit the favourite places of the outstanding figures of literature who lived in Trieste such as Saba, Svevo, and Joyce.The tour begins in Piazza Unità, from where we meander through the alleyways of Cittavecchia, an area beloved by Italo Svevo who took here his daily strolls, and by Joyce who in his writings reproduced faithfully the heterogeneous and frenzy climate of this area. Opposite the Teatro Verdi, which Joyce used frequent since he was an opera lover, there stood the Union Bank offices where Svevo worked for as many as 18 years; life in that bank became the scenery for his first novel: Una Vita (A Life).The tour continues along Via San Nicolò. At number 30 you can find the "Umberto Saba" Antiquarian Bookshop, which was managed by the poet with the same name and on whose shelves precious volumes are still to be found. At number 32 is the palace which used to be the headquarters of the Berlitz School, the institute where Joyce worked for several years as an English teacher, and where the friendship between the Irish writer and Italo Svevo began. Moving on towards Viale XX Settembre, at number 16, you can find the palace where Ettore Schmitz, better known under the name of Italo Svevo, was born.