Cultural Activities in Florence
Centro Machiavelli – TANDEM Florence offers its students extracurricular activities which are aimed at providing elements which can be useful for interpreting the modern day reality in Italy, for appreciating our historic and artistic patrimony and for orientation in our city, country and culture.
The activities also have a social function, creating occasions for exchange amongst students from different classes who meet and speak Italian in an authentic rather than an artificial situation.
On request, seminar topics can be extended into short courses with conditions and prices to be established according to the specific request. The school's tape and video library, which includes many films of the Italian cinematography tradition, can be used by students in the afternoon.
The school offers three different types of activities:
- Seminars on historic and artistic topics and visits to the major points of interest in and around the city
- Seminars and visits to understand the social economic makeup of the city and the surrounding area
- Recreational Activities: workshop of crafts or cooking, walks in the countryside, excursions to the seaside, dinners and concerts.
In the summer the activities are in part linked to the program proposed by the Town of Florence and to the opera season at the Arena in Verona.
The activities of the first two types are free; students cover their own personal expenses such as museum entrance or bus fare. Seminars are held in Italian using language that can be easily followed by foreigners.
