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)

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.

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Sonja from Germany

I participated at an intensive language course in Italy from 17.09.2012 to
28.09.2012. Therefore I decided to study at the school IL Faro. The school is located
in the center of Caorle. It takes just a few minutes to get to the beach or to the
Citycenter, where all the shops and restaurants are. While studying I lived in a
holiday apartment in front of the beach. The apartment was very nice and pretty
modern. I booked this apartment at the agency "adriamare" which was recommended to me
by school.
There are three teachers at school. The Italian courses are taught exclusively in
Italian language. This is conductive to advanced learning. The school also provides
all the study material. The main season in Italy ends in September. This is
particularly noticeable at school, because there are just a few students. Therefore
I had private lessons with Miss Liviana Cechet. There have been two students from
Kanada, too, who participated in another course. Every day I had to prepare some
homework, for example grammar or writing exercises. The following day I discussed
the homework with my teacher. So I had the chance to improve my knowledge about the
italian language in dialogue.
I can highly recommend this school, especially the committed and motivated
teachers. Moreover the school organizes Sight Seeing Tours. This is an
extraordinary opportunity to get to know the Italian culture.
I had a very nice time in Caorle and in addition it was possible for me to improve my
Italian language skills within a short time.

What they say about us: Italian Society’s group Amicizia study holiday

The language school (il Faro) was in the centre of the old part of the village and proved to be of very high quality indeed. The group was divided in three depending on the level of tuition required. All members felt their Italian improved as the lessons were well suited to their existing language ability.

This Easter a group of Amicizia members from Sligo and Dublin, totalling 20 in all, made their way to the resort village of Caorle between Venice and Trieste. The area is unlike any of the places visited in previous years- resembling parts of Holland and Belgium rather than the usual Umbrian-Tuscan scenery. Long sandy beaches interrupted by lagoons that stretch for miles into the interior, small settlements based on cultivation of the flat canal drained fields, small scale fishing from the shallow Adriatic, wine making and of course tourism. The group arrived on Easter Sunday so the following day ( la Pasquetta) being a major holiday for Italians brought large crowds to the village. The hotel on the beach used by the group was full for a few nights but later things quietened down and Caorle took a deep breath before the summer season.

Several trips were made to surrounding places of interest. Close to Caorle is one of the largest areas in Italy for the production of organic wine and the group took a bus to visit the farm of the Piccinin family "Le Carline". Naturally a sampling of the produce was needed. Members were surprised to find this winemaker has a delicious white wine labelled "AMICITIA" the Latin version of the name of the society. The excursion to Venice was by ferry from Punto Sabbioni to Piazza San Marco which was a delightful way to reach the old town of Venice which is so incantevole that it simply defies description.

Some members went to Trieste, a frontier city with notable historic overtones, others went to Portogruaro closer to Caorle. A private coach was hired to visit Padova, site of one of the oldest universities in Europe.

(The Sligo Champion News)

lodging for students of Il Faro - Caorle

Although accommodation is not included in the price of tuition, the staff of the school is available to help students find suitable accommodations, at special rates, in one of the many hotels and apartments in and around town. Here are some sample prices.

Please bare in mind that lodging in single room in shared apartment may not always be available.

hotel	per person per night
Prices B&B (solutions including lunch and dinner are also available)
2 star hotel	from 25 Euros
3 star hotel	from 35 Euros
4 star hotel	from 55 Euros

APARTMENTs	per person per week
Single or double room, with kitchen and bathroom/WC; towels and linens are provided	from 120 Euros
Private apartment in LOW SEASON (towels and linens are provided)	from 120 Euros
Private apartment in HIGH SEASON (July and August) (towels and linens are provided)	from 400 Euros

Lison-Pramaggiore D.O.C. Winery Tour

Veneto is a region renowned worldwide for its excellent wine production (soave, bardolino, valpolicella, prosecco are just a few of the numerous Veneto wines). Just outside of Caorle is one of Veneto most important D.O.C. area, the Lison-Pramaggiore D.O.C., where D.O.C. stands for Denominazione di origine controllata that is wines with appellation of quality. We visit one of the area’s cantine (winery). We explore the process of wine production, the history and peculiarity of the region, and we enjoy a tasting of the local famous Tocai, Cabernet and Pinot Grigio.