Castagneto Carducci is a town of the Alta Maremma, in Tuscany, located in front of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is well-known like Coast of the Etruscans by the numerous discovered testimonies of this old and mysterious civilization . Marina di Castagneto Carducci rises in a dense coastal pinery around a fort of the 18th century. Today Marina di Castagneto is one of the most well-known and visited localities of the Coast of the Etruscans, with numerous bath establishments and long rows of multicolour parasols. From north to south, kilometers of free beach offer the show of the blossoming of the sea lilies and other typical plants of the zone.

The possibility are: single or double rooms in apartments with shared kitchen with other students of the courses, apartments with one or two beds in Marina di Castagneto Carducci, Castagneto Carducci or the field, hotels, camping and, sometimes, families houses.

The program is developed through a method that, although considers the different didactic tendencies, it is based mainly on an activity of inductive and creative type. The purpose is to acquire a concrete ability, in the first place to know how to speak and to listen, later, specially in the superior courses, to know how to read and to write. Another communicative skill is that to stimulate a reflection on the language, on its structure and rules, avoiding therefore the risk of a knowledge not related to the effective linguistic use. On the first day of the course all the students will have to take level test in order to divide the classes homogeneously. They are 6 levels of education, divided in two cycles, with the possibility of reaching the own objectives of each level in a month of lessons and of fulfilling, therefore, the complete cycle in 6 monthly courses.

The school has an intense program of cultural activities during the afternoons, included in the cost of the course, such as lessons in the school on subjects of historical, political and musical interest, meetings and interviews with economic operators in traditional sectors of the local economy, meetings with local administrators, visits throughout the Wine Way, bars and wine properties of the commune that produce some of most famous and appreciated wines of the world, a guided visit to the natural oasis the Bolgheri (only from November to April), visit to the museum of Populonia on the Etruscan Coast and to the Etruscan tombs of the zone and visit to the places of historical interest of the Commune.
         

LINGUA
Via della Marina, 8
Marina di Castagneto Carducci
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