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Postcard from Abroad

Postcard from Abroad

Dear Global Education Office: This is a picture of a fresh fruit market in Venice, Italy. Sure, they have grocery stores there, but nothing beats the food you buy from the morning markets. Food in Italy just tastes better, simple dishes taste extraordinary. Maybe it is the lust for life...

Credit: Savannah McMullen

Major: History and Cultural Anthropology

Tags: Duke in Venice, Italy, Venice, summer

Postcard from Abroad

Postcard from Abroad

Dear Global Education Office: I was fortunate enough to spend four weeks in Italy this summer with the Duke in Rome program. It was my first glimpse of Europe-the heart of all the art history I had spent years looking at in textbooks. I discovered my affinity for museums and...

Credit: Joy Liu

Major: Public Policy

Tags: Duke in Rome, Italy, Rome, summer

Postcard from Abroad

Postcard from Abroad

Dear Global Education Office:This group photo of Duke in Rome 2011 was taken right before we went *under* St. Peter's basilica in Rome! We began our exploration of that magnificent structure by visiting the "tomb of St. Peter" and other tombs of ancient Rome that were buried but preserved by...

Credit: Mary T. Boatwright

Major: Program Instructor

Tags: Duke in Rome, Italy, Rome, summer

Postcard from Abroad

Postcard from Abroad

Dear Global Education Office: Students on the Duke in Rome 2011 Summer Program enjoy a well-earned pizza lunch after exploring Herculaneum, one of the cities covered by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The delicious and plentiful food was one highlight of the program. We needed it! There was...

Credit: Mary T. Boatwright

Major: Program Instructor

Tags: Duke in Rome, Italy, Rome, summer

Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore

Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore

One of the many, many high-relief sculptures of Arnolfo di Cambio's facade. Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, Firenze...

Credit: Reshma Kalimi

Tags: Florence, Italy

Ponte Veccio

Ponte Veccio

Ponte Veccio: Florence's oldest bridge and the only one not destroyed in WWII....

Credit: Reshma Kalimi

Tags: Florence, Italy

Postcard from Abroad

Postcard from Abroad

Dear Global Education Office: Bec in Firenze! Ciao Duke! Arriving on campus each day at Villa La Pietra (behind me) never gets old and will definitely be something I miss when I leave. Florence is one of the prettiest cities I have ever been to and studying abroad here has...

Credit: Rebecca Stone

Major: History / Theater Studies

Tags: Florence, Italy

Postcard from Abroad

Postcard from Abroad

Dear Global Education Office: During my 15 weeks in Venezia, I never would have imagined that it would be so beautiful, so engaging, and just all around amazing. From taking a vaporetto everywhere to spending my spring break in the south of Spain. Everything was new and exciting. I have...

Credit: Amanda Morrall

Major: Public Policy

Tags: Duke in Venice, Italy, Venice

Postcard from Abroad

Postcard from Abroad

Dear Global Education Office: I swim in music. One night in November after going out for some amazing pizza (apple & gorgonzola, anyone? It's my favorite) a group of us happened upon Santa Croce, a church that is close to the Arno River. There was an unseen organist playing, and...

Credit: Marissa Bergmann

Major: Visual Studies

Tags: Italy

Postcard From Abroad

Postcard From Abroad

Dear Global Education Office: I always knew that I would study abroad, but it was ultimately a difficult route to pursue since the majority of my friends decided to remain at Duke for junior year. In the summer of 2008 I participated in the Duke Study in China Program, and...

Credit: Angela Chang

Major: International Comparative Studies/Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Tags: China, Duke in China, Duke in Florence, Italy, Summer Research Fellowship

Postcard from Abroad

Postcard from Abroad

Dear Global Education Office: In the summer of 2009, I had to opportunity to participate in the Duke in Rome program! I had a wonderful experience. After the four weeks were over, I felt like I had really seen everything Rome had to offer, from ruins to churches to museums....

Credit: Kaitlyn Sanders

Major: Religion

Tags: Duke in Rome, Italy, Rome, summer

Florence Street View

Florence Street View

Street view in Florence, Italy....

Credit: Patricia Otcasek

Tags: Duke in Florence, Florence, Italy

Florence from Giardino di Boboli

Florence from Giardino di Boboli

A view of Florence, Italy from the Giardino di Boboli....

Credit: Sy Mauskopf

Tags: Duke in Florence, Florence, Italy

Sunset on the Arno

Sunset on the Arno

Sunset on the Arno, looking East in Florence, Italy....

Credit: Sy Mauskopf

Tags: Duke in Florence, Florence, Italy

Florence from Giardino Bardini

Florence from Giardino Bardini

A view of Florence from Giardino Bardini....

Credit: Sy Mauskopf

Tags: Duke in Florence, Florence, Italy

Excursion to Palermo Museum

Excursion to Palermo Museum

ICCS Sicily students visit a museum in Palermo....

Credit: Nigel Nicholson

Tags: ICCS, Italy, Sicily

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