8 Days / 6 Nights
Live like a Local in Rome! Live your dream of studying Italian language and cooking Roman style all while partaking in language study abroad! Enjoy an educational immersion into Roman culture, dialect, and traditional foods on this food tour. Experience hands-on lessons while seeing the highlights of the city and learning how to prepare traditional dishes with a local chef. You will return with skills that will last beyond the memories of the travel experience.
Itinerary
Prepare to depart on your overnight flight to the “Eternal City”, Rome!
Upon arrival, you will have a private transfer to your hotel. Once there, enjoy some free time to acclimate to the city and it’s magic.
In the afternoon you will have a meeting with your Learning Journeys representative to review your program and then enjoy the rest of your day in beautiful Rome!
After breakfast you will begin your first day of Italian language class! Throughout your language class you will use public transportation that has been well mapped out for you during your course so you can experience a true local flair! You will meet at the language school for your first session, which will include an assessment, placement, and introduction to the course. In the afternoon you will visit the highlights of Rome, including visits to the Colosseum, Spanish Steps, and Trevi Fountain. Afterwards, enjoy an evening on your own to explore and get dinner during your free time.
Enjoy breakfast before your second day of class! After class, visit the extraordinary Vatican Museums. An expert local guide will lead you through a tour of the Vatican Museums, a treasure trove of ancient Greek sculptures, medieval tapestries and Renaissance paintings. The visit culminates in the Sistine Chapel, the room where the Pope is elected. Next you'll visit St. Peter’s Basilica, which is by far the largest church in Christendom. See Michelangelo’s Pieta, sculpted when he was just 24, as well as Bernini’s seven-story bronze canopy located above the main altar. At the conclusion of the visit, walk across the Piazza San Pietro before heading back to your hotel for the evening.
Enjoy breakfast before your Italian language class! In the afternoon, you'll be taken to a Ceramic laboratory where you'll get to visit and create your own art Afterwards, you'll have free time to explore Rome and use your new language skills to order dinner!
Enjoy breakfast before your Italian language class! After class, you'll get to experience a pizza making lesson at a local cooking school. There you'll get to learn how to make pizza from scratch and then enjoy the pizza for dinner that you have prepared! Manga!
Enjoy breakfast before your final day of class! Afterwards, you will be taken back to your hotel before the afternoon activities begin. Experience a wine tasting and dinner at a local restaurant before having the rest of your eving at your leisure to go shopping or any other additional things you would like to do on your final evening in Rome.
Make sure to throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain to ensure your return to Italy before you depart for home!
Prepare to be transferred to the airport for your departure back to your home city.
Grazie! (Thank you) for choosing Perillo Tours!
Inclusions
Inclusions:
Private transfer from Rome Airport to Hotel
6 Nights at 4-star hotel or similar
Rome half-day City Tour - (4 hours) the Colosseum, Spanish Steps and Trevi Fountain (private car, private guide, and entrance fees at the Colosseum)
Daily breakfast
Italian Language class (from Monday to Friday, in the mornings)
Pizza cooking class (including transfer in/out restaurant)
Ceramic Class
Half-day tour of the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel (Including private transfer to the Vatican area + private guide and entrance fees at the Vatican)
Private transfer to Rome airport
Public transport
City tax in Rome
Porterage 1 piece per person
Occasionally local religious and national holidays, weather, traffic conditions and other events may necessitate changes in the sequence of events or the missing of certain events/places. Though every effort will be made to follow the itinerary, it should be considered as an indication, rather than a contract of events and places to be visited.