Location

Learn Italian in your teacher's home

Study while enjoying a pleasant holiday in a beautiful Sicilian villa

We are located in the north-eastern part of Sicily, near Milazzo, a beautiful seaside resort about 40 km from Messina, the third largest city of the island. The greatest poets of Ancient Greece have been inspired by the innumerable myths and legends regarding the Straits of Messina. The courses are held in a pleasant country villa from which one enjoys a breath-taking view onto the Eolian Isles. Don Gaspano is fully equipped as a traditional and elegant B&B, and also offers made-to-measure lessons in Italian. The teacher and mistress of the house will welcome you and will make you feel at home in her typically Italian house. If traditional schools do not appeal to you, we can offer a special formula, a unique opportunity to live and learn in an purely Italian atmosphere. You will study with profit while enjoying yourself.

The teaching takes place among old olive trees, in the shade of blooming bougainvillea and hibiscus, while you sip exquisite granite. Your Italian will take its roots in real life, as you savour traditional Sicilian cuisine, browse in open-air markets, admire Sicilian craftsmanship or shop in the refined boutiques of Milazzo. You will discover many aspects of Italian life, some of its less known peculiarities, secret places and strange traditions.

Such a varied experience of everyday life will make your linguistic holiday most profitable.
A total immersion in the life of a country is a rich human and linguistic experience. Learning can be fun; our aim is to make this process as pleasant as possible.

Living and learning Italian in Sicily will help you to acquire a better understanding of the history of an island which has played in the past, and continues to play, a strategic part in the Mediterranean. It can even be argued that Sicily is an important key to the social and political history of Italy itself.