Cortona, Italy

[Stanislaw]

Does anyone know anything about Cortona Italy?

I may be going there for a symester of study in fall 06, or winter 07 (spring)
So, I'm just curious if anyone knows anything about ye old cortona? :)

[subterranean]

Is it a food?


Nah, just kidding. Sorry Stan, can't help you with that ;)

[querida]

San Francis of Assisi founded the hermitic monastery of "Le Celle" there.
AND some ancient historians suggested that Ulysses was buried there!

How intriguing!

I might be there next summer, touring tuscany.

[samercury]

Never heard of this place before ???????

[Stanislaw]

st. Francis eh? cool! and ulysses, I am growing impatient to go there, but budgetary restrictions always must dictate our course of action! :cool:

[Natalie]

I've never been to Cortona but would jump at any chance to study in Italy - wherever!

[Stanislaw]

totally, not only is it travel, but ye can actually work towards your degree!

[Koa]

Er.. I don't even know where it is... what's the province? the region at least? I think it's somewhere around Roma, or in Lazio anyway... but at first I thought of mountains cos I mistook it with Cortina... :D

Is there a University there? :eek: Why there? Are you studying Italian? (not the kind of question you'd expect from someone -me- who did a semester in Hungary...and in a small unknown place as well... uhm I think now I know how all those people who asked this to me felt :D)

[Koa]

I've never been to Cortona but would jump at any chance to study in Italy - wherever!


Well if you don't want to learn anything, get a useless degree, live in a country where your value doesnt matter cos it's the 'smart' (as in, those who manage to turn the situation in their favour) who win, take exams hoping the teacher is in a good mood and get a lower mark than someone who didnt even open the book, and when you get to the end of your studies feel totally discouraged and unmotivated because of all this & more, because you realise that having worked doesnt really pay off, that you need all the luck in the world to get a good job if any, that all your cultural interests have been killed by years of living in the philosophy of 'lets work as least as we can', then yeah that's the place to be...
The good side is that you don't really work much at Uni...not as much as in other countries, or at least for what I've experienced.

I wish I had thought of studying abroad...here it's just not stimulating, University (ok, and life) killed my brain instead of opening it up, I miss the deep, poetic highschool-me...

Ops sorry, whenever I hear Uni and Italy in the same sentence, that venting thing comes out of me.... :flare: :blush:

[Koa]

San Francis of Assisi founded the hermitic monastery of "Le Celle" there.
AND some ancient historians suggested that Ulysses was buried there!

How intriguing!

I might be there next summer, touring tuscany.

Oh that kinda answers my "I should know where it is" question...kinda... well I was right about it being in central Italy...:D