All of our orientation programs are now complete and students are settling into their adopted neighborhoods, their new surroundings and their courses in Florence, Perugia and Rome. The Arcadia in Rome program got the ball rolling, arriving on the last… More
Graffiti on the Streets of Rome The Street Art Workshop, one of our most creative co-curricular activities for students, took place last Saturday. While taking a bicycle tour with contemporary art historians and writers through the ​Quadraro district… More
Villanova University students were interviewed by The Washington Post to recount their internship experience at the Vatican. Melissa Connolloy and Tatum Murray, both seniors, spent spring ’15 on Villanova’s Vatican internship program which includes study… More
What is the Italian dish that is easy to make, delicious and inexpensive? Let's leave aside the ubiquitous but ever-variable pasta for a moment and talk about polpette! Polpette in Italy can be made of tender beef, pork, chicken or veal (meatballs) or… More
Each semester, the Arcadia Rome Center's Prof. Ben Scribner teaches Political Economy with a focus on the Southern European Debt Crisis, as does Prof. Bianca Ananiadis of the Arcadia Athens Center. Both courses meet mid-semester in a European city (Rome… More