In Winter 2000 we are offering a program in Pietrasanta instead of Rome. We anticipate offering the program on an occasional basis in the future. Pietrasanta is a small town, but its atmosphere is more cosmopolitan than one would expect. Carving studios and bronze casting foundries abound, and both young, aspiring artists and accomplished masters from Michaelangelo to Henry Moore and Isamu Noguchi have worked there. It is four kilometers to the beach, and there are many courses and facilities for amateur and expert alike.
Weather is mild, even in the winter off-season.
Pietrasanta is in easy reach of Florence and many other cities, big and small. Students will stay at Residence Internazionale, a historic villa recently renovated into numerous small apartments. Each apartment houses three to seven students. A restaurant in the building offers a meal plan and the apartments have kitchenettes. Numerous day trips to Florence, under two hours away by train, are planned.