For the first time ever, Virginia Tech's Center for European Studies and Architecture is being made available to faculty and staff members and families for an educational program during the summer of 1998. Participating faculty members will have the opportunity to scout out the location and determine its suitability for academic programs in their own disciplines.
Limited funds are available to subsidize such exploratory trips.
All participants will be presented with a full learning program that takes maximum advantage of the wealth of historic and art-historic sites in the area. Guided day tours, conducted by Virginia Tech faculty members, will help the group get acquainted with cities such as Milan, Venice, and Verona. Some time will also be set aside for independent sightseeing by participants. The landscape features lakes surrounded by palm trees and mountains covered with snow. Of attraction to the Virginia Tech students and faculty members who have been using the center for academic programs since fall 1993 is the close proximity to a great number of sites that are of monumental importance to western history and art.