32 students from two universities headed out by train from Rome’s Porta San Paolo and spent the morning exploring the back streets and monuments of Rome’s ancient port. Preserved in mud the way Pompeii was preserved in lava, but bearing witness to many more centuries of ancient history, Ostia provides a comprehensive look at Roman […]
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Today on a gorgeous Sunday both the @hwsabroad @hwscolleges and the @illinoisabroad students took to the ancient Appian Way on bikes! But not after a look and tasting at the Campagna Amica farmer’s market. Joined by @luluinitalia and many though not all of the students we learned about how agriculture, ancient archaeology and modern day
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After a walk on the Tiber riverbanks, our U of I students ascended to the fashionable Via dei Condotti to sip cappuccino and coffee at the elegant Antico Caffè Greco. We sat in the Sala Omnibus, the very place where eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers, artists, and intellectuals met to hone their crafts. We read (in
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