Lots of you have been asking what the new Madrelingua school premises look like.

Apologies for not having got to this earlier, but it’s been a busy time!

Below are some pics for you, with captions.

If they don’t show up on your smartphone or tablet, click here to read this article and see the photos on the school’s website.

And of course, you’re more than welcome anytime.

Just drop in to see us and have a look around!

The new address is Via Altabella, 11, Bologna.

Via Altabella is adjacent to Bologna’s cathedral, on the right-hand side

Via Altabella seen from Via Indipendenza, with the cathedral on the left

The school is in the building in front of the tower – the balcony is ours!

And here’s a view of Via Altabella from said balcony

We’re up the stairs, to the right!

The waiting area

Reception

Room 2

Room 3

Room 4

Room 5

Room 6

Room 7

The rooms have ‘affreschi’ (painted ceilings)

Ceiling detail

Ceiling detail

Ceiling detail

Ceiling detail

Ceiling detail

Ceiling detail

Ceiling detail

Ceiling detail

Ceiling detail

Ceiling detail

‘Aperitivo’ bar in Via Altabella

That’s it for today.

Hope to see you all soon in Bologna!

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Via San Giorgio is an attractive street in the center of Bologna.

It features some of the city’s characteristic porticoes, various historical buildings, and of course, one of Bologna’s best Italian language schools!

But it’s very quiet.

Little traffic and few people pass by.

And so, in a few weeks, we’ll be waving farewell to our home of the last twelve years.

We’ll miss it, but the new place will be better.

We’ll be a few minutes walk closer to Piazza Maggiore, at Via Altabella, 11 (behind the Apple store!)

The new school building looks out onto the rear of Bologna Cathedral.

And it’s just a few metres from one of Bologna’s less famous but tallest towers, the twelfth century Torre degli Azzoguidi.

Inside, the classrooms have painted ceilings – one of them being reminiscent of a renaissance lady’s boudoir!

There’s also modern air-conditioning, which we will all appreciate during the hotter summer months.

Can’t wait to show you the photos, once we’re safely moved in!

Look out for those in a month or so, when we have everything prettied up.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

We’re moving on May 30th. From June 1st we will no longer have the keys to the ‘old’ school building.

Courses beginning in June will therefore take place in the ‘new’ building.

So if you’re one of our many returning students, and find yourself walking the familiar route to Via San Giorgio, do a double take and head back over to Via Indipendenza.

Turn right, up towards Piazza Maggiore, then left by the cathedral (opposite Zara, if shopping is your thing than churches.)

We’ll see you there!

Hope you had/are having a very enjoyable Christmas Day.

This is just a quick, last-minute reminder that the 20% discount offer on 2017 Italian courses in Bologna ends in just a few hours.

At midnight Italian time.

That’s 9 a.m. on Boxing Day in Sydney, Australia but 11 p.m. this evening in London, 6 in the afternoon in New York, 3 p.m. on the U.S. west coast, and so on.

Wherever you are, it’s soon.

To take advantage of the year’s biggest savings, click here

You have been reminded.

Get it done.

Then, no more emails for a while!

Buon Natale!

P.S.

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