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
  info@ilfarolingua.it
  www.ilfarolingua.it
  
  

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)