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This Intensive Fresco Workshop will take place at Accademia del Giglio in Florence, will have a duration of 5 days, from Monday 5th to Friday 9th March 2012, for a total amount of 30 hours of tuition. During the workshop the students will follow the essential steps to making a fresco: for example they will learn how to prepare [...]

Now you can study Italian at your place with the Accademia del Giglio online courses in Italian language. These courses are perfect for those students who are not able to come to Italy and for those who have already attended Italian classes in our school and wish to go on with their language studies after [...]

La Factory-Art gallery è lieta di annunciare il 2012 PROJECT BERLIN e accetta opere d’arte di artisti emergenti e affermati in tutti i media: pittura, disegno, incisione, scultura, fotografia, arte digitale, video e mixed media. Verranno selezionati 12 artisti ciascuno con 2 opere. La presentazione è aperta a tutti gli artisti, senza limiti di età, sesso, nazionalità [...]

Here is a list of over 100 exercises and activities published on AdGblog in the past few years in order to learn and improve the Italian language through Italian songs. All the posts have been sorted into 3 main level of knowledge of the language (according to the European common framework of reference of language learning [...]

Here are some exercises and various activities that can be used by teachers in Italian Language classes for absolute beginners or by students themselves at home to revise what they have learnt. We hope you enjoy them! Video comprehensions: Tutti pazzi per amore! (present tense and vocabulary) Uno strano Cristoforo Colombo (present tense and vocabulary) [...]

Here are a few pictures taken this November during our Art classes. The courses have been organized by Accademia del Giglio. Alcune foto scattate a novembre durante i corsi di disegno e pittura che si tengono presso l’Accademia del Giglio. ____________________________________________________________

È arrivato il momento per gli studenti d’arte dell’Accademia del Giglio, di presentare i loro migliori lavori realizzati durante l’anno: il prossimo giovedì 1 dicembre 2011 verrà allestita una mostra per presentare le opere più belle e rappresentative. L’inaugurazione della mostra si terrà presso la sede di Via Ghibellina, 116 alle 17:30. At the end [...]

What is the weather like in Florence? This is one of the commonest questions students keep asking me, and one of the most difficult indeed. I know that the weather question is a main topic in every country, mostly used to start up a conversation. But students are normally concerned with the weather before leaving [...]

This post by Lorenzo Capanni first appeared five years ago on adgblog.it. Italians make it better. We are talking about coffee of course. From the north to the south of the country coffee is a daily ritual which no Italian would ever abandon. There are two ways of making coffee: with an espresso machine and [...]

Still places available for the Italian language group courses for beginners starting on September 5th 2011 organized by Accademia del Giglio, Italian language and Art school in the heart of Florence. Special offer: enrol now, within August 22nd 2011 in the Italian language course for beginners starting on September 5th (L4/4), and you will receive a 25% discount, i.e.: 4 [...]