Location
Experiments are performed at Italy's synchrotron located outside of Trieste in the village of Basovizza. Classroom instruction is set in picturesque Paderno del Grappa, 25 miles North of Venice. Classrooms and dormitories are nestled next to Mount Grappa which towers above Paderno. The location of the campus offers the cultural experience of living in the small Italian communities of Paderno and Bosavizza while providing direct access to the well-known art and history treasure of the Veneto, with its major cities of Venice, Padua, Vicenza, Verona and Treviso. To encourage travel, students will have Friday through Sunday off with no Thursday evening homework assignments. Excellent local hiking is available with beautiful scenery and many historical sites are close by. Venice, Bologna, Florence, and Pisa are reached by a short train ride. Cities in Austria, and Rome are also accessible by train. Croatia and Slovenia are easily accessible from Bosavizza.
Photographs of the area can be found here: http://www.angelfire.com/ks2/cimba/