Dates & Fees 2021 (London & Venice)

MONDAY 25 January to FRIDAY 29 January (London) and

SUNDAY 31^st January to SATURDAY 13 March (Venice)                             £11,520

Fees include accommodation in shared rooms in Venice, breakfast, dinner, the full programme of lectures and on-site visits, life drawing, portraiture and photography, some art materials, one month free pass on Venetian water buses, entrance fees for visits to galleries, churches and museums included on the programme, excursions to see works of Giotto, Mantegna and Donatello in Padua, to the mosaics at Ravenna and to Palladian Villas in the Veneto, private visits to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the basilica of S. Marco at night.

Accommodation and meals during the introductory five days in London are not included but we can assist students seeking accommodation by putting them in touch with families who have had our students as paying guests in former years. Worth noting is that the fees cover a month’s free travel on public transport in Venice, (usual price per ticket £4 – average use 3 times a day, £84 a week), breakfast and a three course dinner each day and entrance fees for all museum and gallery visits included on the programme.  These are small details which add up and are often not included in fees quoted on other courses.

Extras

EXTENSION OF THE COURSE IN FLORENCE

Saturday 13 to Saturday 20 MARCH                                                            £2,140

EXTENSION OF THE COURSE IN ROME  

Saturday 20 to Friday 26 MARCH                                                                £2,270

Please note, after the London/Venice programme, students may participate in the Florence only extension or Florence and Rome extensions but not the Rome only extension.

ITALIAN CLASSES                                                                                       £310

COOKERY CLASSES – CUCINA ITALIANA                                         £580

Cookery consists of a course of 3 sessions of about 4 hours each. Each class takes place in the kitchen of the Contessa Rocca’s palace and ends with a convivial dinner, eating the delicious food that has been cooked with accompanying wines, as well as including a trip to the Rialto market to source the food. Gourmet Magazine rated Enrica Rocca’s” eponymous cookery school as one of the top ten schools in the world.” Students will be accepted for the cookery classes in order of application as a maximum of 20 only can be accepted with 10 per class.

Photography – no extra cost

Art – no extra cost

A Note on Fees:

“£168 – not a sum easily found by everyone” — wrote The Guardian of the Pre-University Course fees in 1968.

For over 50 years, our fees have kept roughly the same relationship to a term at an independent boarding school. Fees include return travel to Italy, accommodation in the centre of Venice, with breakfast and 3 course dinner daily. Additionally they include a supportive resident staff, a visiting faculty of distinguished lecturers coming out to Venice from England and a series of privileged and expensive private visits to palaces, museums and churches

“Value for money and worth every penny, parents agree and most admit envy.”

—  The Good Gap Year and Sixth Form Guide.