Arcadia Italy

Today Rome celebrates its 2769th! Known as Natale di Roma, the annual birthday celebration is based on the legendary foundation of Rome by Romulus in 753 BC. A novelty this year will be the switching on of a new lighting system at the Roman Fora of Nerva…

April is a great month for our extra-curricular activities! Check out the details below, and stay up-to-date through our Facebook Spring 16 group. Rome Marathon & 5K The Rome Marathon is an excellent opportunity to exercise while you do some sightseeing…

Pasqua or Easter is one of the biggest holidays on the Italian calendar. Easter in Italy may look somewhat similar to Easter celebrations you’re used to. You will see colorful displays of chocolate eggs and bunnies in the shops. It is a time of religious…

Our Arcadia in Rome program is very focused on engaging our students in every aspect of the Italian and Roman life, which is one of the many reasons that most of our students decide to study here. Tutoring Italian families on English has been, in fact​…

Students studying with us at Roma Tre and will be seeing some strange activity on campus this week: they might hear and see students and their families milling about outside crowded classrooms, hear applause coming from those classrooms or see the occasional…

Celebrating International Women's Day at the World Food Programme Arcadia Students enrolling in the UN Familiarization Group were invited last week to the commemoration of International Women's Day, an event organized by the UN's, Food and Agriculture…

Mimosa is the ​official ​flower of International Women's Day in Italy. Mimosa trees are found all over the landscape: from city gardens to coastal cliffs, farmland to hilly inclines. Their heady smell fills March's Spring air up and down the Italian…

Fundamental Rights and Cultural Diversity in Rome By Professors Stefania Gialdroni and Vicky Kynourgiopoulou Once upon a time, the Eurostar Roma Congress Hotel was an elegant, business-oriented hotel in the neighborhood of Tor Sapienza, in the eastern…

Often we wander around Rome from one appointment to the next in awe of the warm December sun and bright blue skies while we curse another bus and metro strike. This sort of inner conflict affects every Roman and adopted Roman: we love the weather, the…