Cinque Terre
Cinghiale in Florence
Donatello ~ Duomo
Tuscan Landscape
Rinascimento

Honors Italy Program ~ 2009 Program Calendar
(tentative)

(Please note: there is no guarantee that we will be afforded the opportunity to see all of the items on this calendar due to weather conditions,
holiday schedules, labor strikes, museum and church closures for renovations, and/or public works projects.
Additionally, expect the schedule to be shuffled in order to accommodate those and other unforeseeable events)


In country portion of program:
(please note the nine "conservative dress code" days, marked with an asterisk,
you will not be admitted to these sites with bare shoulders and/or shorts)


ROME SECTION

List of Rome Places & Things


04, Monday, TRAVEL DAY
Alitalia Flight AZ 631: Depart Miami (MIA) Monday, May 4, 2009 at 4:15 PM (be at airport by 2:00PM!)
Arrive Rome (FCO) Tuesday, May 5 at 8:00 AM
(Try to sleep on the flight as we won't be taking a nap once we get to Rome!)

05, GROUP ACTIVITY: The Walkabout: Sense of the City
Arrive in Rome, 9:00AM, Bus transfer to hotel (30 km/19 mi.– about 31 min.)
Orientation Talk at 11:30AM in hotel lobby
Locations: Group lunch / Quirinale Hill, Trevi Fountain, Piazza Barberini, Quattro Fontane, back to the hotel. Afternoon free.
Optional afternoon loop (for those who want to): Santa Maria Maggiore, San Prassede, San Pietro in Vincoli.
Sprezzatura Chapters: 2, 3, 5, 8, 26

06, CLASS
Locations: Imperial Fora, Vittoriano, Campidoglio, Forum overlook, Teatro Marcello, Ghetto, Campo di Fiore (lunch), Piazza Navona, Pantheon* ................. (there will be ample time to have lunch in Campo di Fiore before we proceed to Piazza Novona)
Themes : Roman Republic& Empire, the Baroque Period, Roman Architecture
Sprezzatura Chapters: 2, 3, 5, 36
*Conservative Dress Code

07, CLASS DAY
Colosseo, Palatino Hill, Roman Forum. Afternoon free.
Optional walk: Angels and Martyrs, Bernini's St. Teresa, Ossuary of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Spanish Steps
Themes : The Early Church, The Renaissance in Rome
Sprezzatura Chapters: 9, 11, 13, 18, 19, 44

08, CLASS, 7:45 Metro
Locations: The Vatican Museum / St. Peter’s Basilica* / Piazza San Pietro
..................... (there will be ample time to have lunch in the Vatican cafeteria before we proceed to the Basilica, please meet-up there)
Themes : Dev. of Art in Western Civilization, Urbanism in the Baroque Period, Dev. of Christianity, The Vatican State, Arts Patronage
Sprezzatura Chapters: 1, 13, 23, 26, 33, 36
*Conservative Dress Code

09, ELECTIVE DAY: 10:00AM Subway from Cavour to Piramide Metro station to Ostia Antica train station (about 1hr.)
Locations: The Castello di Gregorius IV & the Ancient Roman Seaport of Ostia Antica
..................... (there will be time to buy a picnic lunch at the deli in Ostia, before we proceed to the ruins of Ostia Antica
.......................please practice your "deli vocabulary" before we get there as the owners are not bi-lingual)
Themes : Pope Gregorius IV & Pope Julius II, Roman Republic & Empire, The Roman City
Sprezzatura Chapters: 2, 3, 5, 8

10, FREE DAY
Mass at San Pietro? Or:Aventino Hill, Boca della Verita, Trastevere. Possibly: Piazza del Popolo, Borghese Gardens.
Sprezzatura Chapters: 4, 6, 7, 27, 29