San Andrea students on Tuscany visit

A group of 32 students studying Italian at San Andrea Senior School, L-Imselliet, recently conducted a week-long education visit to various cities in Tuscany.

The experience brought to life the theory the students learnt during their Italian culture lessons and enabled them to integrate their Italian, historical and religious knowledge, as well as compare the Italian culture with their ownMaltese cultural heritage.

The group visited Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance era, where the students visited Palazzo Pitti, one of Florence’s largest art galleries, Piazza della Signoria and Ponte Vecchio.

In Pisa, where the group was staying, the students saw the world-famous leaning tower, Piazza dei Miracoli, the Battistero and the monumental Camposanto.

The group also visited Siena and its Piazza del Campo, Lucca, Viareggio, Pietra Santa, Cutigliano and the Unesco world heritage medieval village of San Gimignano.

Other highlights of this trip were watching a football game between Fiorentina and Roma in Florence and spending a day on the beautiful Appennini mountains, where students went up on a cable car to La Doganaccia, where they could practise bob-sleighing and also visited an adventure park.

The trip was organised by the school’s Italian Department and the students were accompanied by Italian teachers Audrey Galea Spiteri and Ivonetta Gemignani, assistant head Stephen Briffa,Maltese teacher Mauro Camilleri, and Religion teacher Daniel Cordina.