WHY STUDY ITALIAN IN OTRANTO?

Here everything is on a human scale: the town, the school, the people; you will not find the mass foreign tourism there is in the big cities. Studying in a small town means that you can speak Italian everywhere and that you will not feel like a “stranger” because people are full of human warmth and special attention to the newcomers.

Otranto:where nature is also history

In 2002 it won the first prize for the cleanest sea in Europe

Otranto: a small town for a big holiday. An important historic and artistic centre, Otranto lies on one of Italy's most beautiful coastlines, the sea that laps against its shores is limpid and intense in colour. 

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Otranto by night

 

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the little streets of the town

    

Byzanthine church of 1000 d.c

                  

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the beach of Otranto

 

              

Otranto presents itself to the visitor in the guise of a medieval city, still attached to the periods that preceded its destruction.

 

 

                      

                  Rich in remains, which testify to its intensely glorious and at times dramatic past; 

the splendid Cathedral overlooks the town, along with Saint Peter's Basilica, Martyr's Hill, the Castle, the Towers, the Bastions, the Aragonese walls and the fortified farmhouses, a must for all visitors to Salento

the town of Otranto seen by the beach

The coast-road is one of the most poetic tourist itineraries in the province.

 It seems made just for the purpose of holding the interest of the traveller in search of new sensation and appealing to his imagination.

With its breathtaking sea views Otranto is a paradise for all nature lovers. Otranto lies at the most easterly point of Italy: in summer you can get across to Greece.

the coast around Otranto

 

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Otranto is a beautiful town on the seaside at 50 km from the main city Lecce the socalled Florence of South of Italy for its artistical beauties. A bus and train service links Otranto to Lecce.

Otranto is also placed at a short distance from the other touristical seaside resorts on the beautiful coast. 

Very famous touristical place Otranto offers several hotels, restaurants, shops, supermarkets, banks. The town overlooks the beautiful beaches with white and fine sand and the clear water.  Otranto offers the possibility to enjoy and to relax with its several pubs, open-air performances, discos.

 

    

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The school also offers its students opportunities to take part in exciting and unusual field trips, for

 example: spend a day at sea with local fishermen, learn traditional folk dances, learn the art of wine and typical cooking-tasting, discover the countryside with organized hikes or the beautiful coast with boat-trips, even go to work with archaeologists in the several archaeological sites of Salento.

 

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Every summer the town of Otranto organizes festivals and cultural events: theatre, cinema, music, traditional folk dancing.

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Otranto is also a meeting place of itinerant artists from everywhere.

Otranto offers different possibilities to do any kind of sport.......riding                   .....diving

 

 

THE SCHOOL 

THE METHOD

 COURSES: DATES and PRICES

SPECIAL COURSES

COURSES FOR ITALIAN TEACHERS 

Certification of Italian as a Foreign Language (CILS)

Mediterranean cooking course

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THE REGION: THE BEAUTIFUL APULIA

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