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Italian Language with Cooking & Wine Course - Holiday in Italy

months available

April, May, June, July, August

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Description

Italian Language with Cooking & Wine Course. (20 lessons + 12 hours per week) in Bologna, Italy.

This programme combines General Italian (20 lessons a week) with Cooking and Wine tasting as well as a visit to a local market in order to get a real sense of Italian culture and lifestyle.

Cooking - This includes 2 evenings of cooking (Tues + Thur from 7pm - 11pm). The cooking sessions are designed to teach the basic skills necessary to prepare authentic Italian dishes. Students, together with the teacher, prepare a complete menu: first course, second course, side dish, dessert and wine. After cooking, the students and teacher enjoy the meal they have cooked in a convivial atmosphere, tasting wines and liqueurs, talking with the chef and his assistant throughout the evening, in Italian of course!

Wine tasting - This part of the programme is designed to help students recognise different types of wine, to choose the best wine following quality and price, and looking at the best combinations of wine and food.

Visit to market - There is a session once in the week where students go with their teacher to a local market and learn about choosing and buying the best ingredients.

Summary Info
Lesson Length - 50
Class Times - Italian lessons: 09.00 - 12.50 or 13.30 - 17.20 Cooking: 7pm - 11pm Tues & Thur 1 market visit 1 wine tasting session
Testing Methods - Written in advance and oral on arrival
Age Range - 16 to 100
Average Class Size - 5
Maximum Class Size - 10
Nearest Airport - Bologna

The School
The school is located in the Palazzo Pepoli, a fine medieval building in the historic centre of the city. Established in 1981, it has 10 classrooms and capacity for a maximum of 130 students, who come mainly from western Europe and Scandinavia. All teachers are university graduates with experience and expertise in teaching Italian as a foreign language. Also included in the price of your course is an extra-curricular programme of 6 hours per week, giving you that extra point of contact with Italian life and culture.

Out and About
Most visitors join the locals as they flock to the Piazza Maggiore and adjacent Piazza del Netuno for a well-earned drink after work. Lined by graceful medieval and Renaissance monuments, these squares are home to bustling cafés, pedestrianised streets and probably the longest network of arcades you’ve ever seen. And the towers of Le Due Torri, albeit at their rather precarious angle, afford excellent views of the city. But at the end of the day, with local eateries or osterias as important to your visit as those museums and churches, you will have at least learned the meaning of 'la grassa' and realised why the Bolognesi are so passionate about their food.

Important Information - Special Offer for bookings made before the 30th of June (with exception of the current offer of 20% discount on the General Course). 12% off on any other language course in Bologna booked for a period of 4 weeks maximum. Once we receive the booking, we will manually deduct the 12%!

Please note that each client is restricted to one offer at a time.

Please note that there is 10% discount for people under the age of 30 taking the General Course only. Please remind us of your age when you send in your booking and we will reduce the price!

Best Time to Go - Cold winters; warm, wet summers.

Accreditations - ASILS, the Association of Schools of Italian as a Second Language, and a recognized centre for the preparation for Siena University’s certificate of Italian as a Second Language (CILS)

Activities - Various cultural activities are available to help students acquire a direct and deeper approach to the town and its historical, artistic, and urban reality, also emphasizing factors which distinguish Bologna from other Italian towns. There are four general topics: the town of Bologna; art, history and music; environment, current events. These include guided tours to museums, the university, the countryside, local wine bars, meeting with Italian professionals, a visit to a clothing manufacturer.

In additional to the cultural programme and language courses, the school also offers seminars on the following topics (each seminar consists of two or three meetings per week): Italian literature, history of music, Italian culture and lifestyle, Italian cooking, theatre, history of Italian language, painting and drawing.

Airport Transfer Options - Bologna - £38.00
1 way airport transfer from Bologna airport.

Price
Length (Weeks): 1 - 8
Course Only - From £299       
Course with Host Family *use of kitchen* (Twin, No Meals) - From £399        
Course with Host Family *use of kitchen* (Single, No Meals) - From £429       
Course with Private Apartment (1 or 2 people) (Single, No Meals) - From £649     
Course with Shared Apartment (Twin, No Meals) - £399
Course with Shared Apartment (Single, No Meals) - £429

About Cactus
Cactus is an award-winning company and one of the world's leading providers of language travel abroad and tailor-made language training. Established in 1998 in Brighton's North Laine (See Map), we are proud to offer language courses in over 25 languages, and in some 45 countries and 150 destinations, worldwide.  At Cactus we are passionate about languages and lifelong learning and, as well as speaking some 12 languages between us, have personally visited all the locations we send our clients - often taking the language courses ourselves! This means we are consistently able to offer you, our clients, the highest levels of customer service, good value and enjoyment. And, unlike our competitors, there are no hidden costs as all registration fees and course materials are included in our prices.

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