Arcadia Italy

​by Professors Alberto Corbino and Paola Cascinelli What does an Arcadia Academic Excursion consist of? If we ​had to answer in ​just ​two words, we would say ​it creates a "temporary citizen". ​By exposing students to real life and helping…

Maker Faire is the greatest show where invention and creativity are the protagonists. This year’s edition present more than 600 exhibitors from around the world showcasing their inventions. It takes place in Rome on October 16-18. Part science fair,…

All of our orientation programs are now complete and students are settling into their adopted neighborhoods, their new surroundings and their courses in Florence, Perugia and Rome. The Arcadia in Rome program got the ball rolling, arriving on the last…

Graffiti on the Streets of Rome The Street Art Workshop, one of our most creative co-curricular activities for students, took place last Saturday. While taking a bicycle tour with contemporary art historians and writers through the ​Quadraro district…

Villanova University students were interviewed by The Washington Post to recount their internship experience at the Vatican. Melissa Connolloy and Tatum Murray, both seniors, spent spring ’15 on Villanova’s Vatican internship program which includes study…

What is the Italian dish that is easy to make, delicious and inexpensive? Let's leave aside the ubiquitous but ever-variable pasta for a moment and talk about polpette! Polpette in Italy can be made of tender beef, pork, chicken or veal (meatballs) or…

Each semester, the Arcadia Rome Center's Prof. Ben Scribner teaches Political Economy with a focus on the Southern European Debt Crisis, as does Prof. Bianca Ananiadis of the Arcadia Athens Center. Both courses meet mid-semester in a European city (Rome…

On the destruction of Cultural Treasures By Thomas DiFazio, Arcadia in Rome, Villanova University student In the spring semester of 2015, I enrolled in a study abroad course known as Stealing Cultural Treasures. The decision to participate in this course…

We have some great extra-curricular activities for our Rome Summer students! Check out the details below, and stay up-to-date through our Facebook Summer '15 Group. Pink Floyd Ballet The Teatro dell'Opera's ballet pays homage to great choreographer…