Specialty Italian courses in Tuscany

Florence, city of Renaissance, is the ideal place to study history of art and to learn the Italian language. Florence offers a wonderful richness of art and architecture: join us in this exciting art history course and meander through the medieval street of Santa Croce.

Italian cuisine and Italian wines are famous all over the world, and more and more students wish to learn the Italian language and Italian cuisine together. Scuola Toscana offers you two different cooking courses, one where you can study Italian socializing and having fun with cooking classes in Italy, and one more complete and intensive, with a lesson and a different menu every day.

At DA Siena you will study Italian language in the mornings and, twice a week, you will take our hands-on evening cooking classes with our expert Chefs. Experience the beauty of this everlasting course: learn to cook meals that you will actually be able to make for your friends and family for years to come! Our hands-on Italian cooking school begin with the study of ingredients followed by a brief description of the recipes and a detailed step by step process explanation of the four/five course meal you are...

The world is slowly becoming smaller and more accessible, and its travelers and explorers are no longer young men off to seek their fortune in the wilderness of the unknown. Nowadays study abroad is no longer restricted to university students looking for a gap year of new experiences.

Live in a private Italian house and cook typical Tuscan dishes with “La mamma”. In these sessions you’ll not only learn the recipes and tricks of Tuscan home-cooking, but you’ll also communicate in Italian, improving your spoken Italian in an authentic family environment.

Using our materials you’ll learn to interpret the forms of Still-life, and Figurative drawings using live models. Date: Participant can choose.

This program is designed for those who wish to learn Italian language and culture in a all-in-one program. Cultural lessons will be held in 2 sessions each consisting of approx.

This program, specifically tailored for mature and senior life-long learners, offers you the possibility to experience living in a perfectly preserved medieval city, as Siena is and experience the perfect mix between language learning, cooking, wine tasting, cultural visits with an art history teacher, conferences and recitals of the most famous “aria” from Italian operas. Includes 30 group lessons 2 cooking classes equipped kitchen text book 1 excursion (on Saturday) 1 wine tasting ...

Language & Mindfulness is the ideal way to provide students the mental ability to undertake your language course with the most productive attitude. Morning lessons will be paired with two weekly sessions (each 3 hours long) beginning with conscious movement excercises through joint mobility, Qi Gong, and breathing drills.

This course is ideal for those who wish to combine the study of Italian language and History of Music in Siena. The teacher of History of Music explores with the students the Italian musical eras devoting a lot of time to lyric Operas.

The course in home cooking does not have a professional character and is intended to familiarise students with the Italian familiar typically dines. During the course the participants will learn in a practical manner the basic principles of Italian cooking, such as pasta, stews, bread and pizza and the typical dishes of Italian regional cuisine, such as saffron rice from Lombardy and pasta alla Norma from Sicily.

This COurse can start any day of the week. The course consists in theoretical lessons and projection of slides on the history of medieval and renaissance art, with special emphasis on painting, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and on the works of art of central Italy, more accessible to our students in the Pisa area.

A course of a mainly practical nature aimed at providing basic concepts and information regarding the main Tuscan and Italian wines and their combination with the main dishes of Italian cuisine. This course must be attended together with a language course.

This course is not scheduled on specific dates. Please contact the school.

For those who are fascinated by the beauty of Italian monuments and are not satisfied with only a basic understanding of them. Our History of Italian Art course will allow you to learn in depth about the history and social context in which these masterpieces were designed and executed.