Follow Villanova University’s students as they immerse themselves in the Eternal City. We hope their journals inspire you to learn more about the Vatican Internship and how our students experience Rome in a way few can!
This Friday, Lauren, Sean, Chris and I had the opportunity of going on the exclusive Scavi Tour. I say exclusive because you literally need to get tickets months in advanced, as only a small group of people are permitted per day. The Scavi Tour is an underground tour of the Vatican, where visitors go down [...]
This past weekend I had the opportunity to visit the beautiful Spanish city of Barcelona. Traveling with a friend from my program, we got into Barcelona a bit later in the evening than we would have liked (these are the sacrifices one must make when traveling on a budget) but it didn’t stop us from [...]
Having experienced some of the more famous historical sites in Italy including the Colosseum, Pantheon, The Duomo in Florence, and Pompeii, I felt like it was time to broaden my horizons. Our professors often tell us that we should take at least one weekend to visit some of the smaller Italian towns for a more [...]
Well the theme of April seemed to be nonstop visitors! Once my parents left Italy to go back home, my roommate from Villanova, Mary, came to town. She planned her trip right in time for my twenty first birthday, and with her flight delay she landed in Rome just an hour before midnight! She and [...]
I’ve done several things here in Rome that I would not have been able to do back home, but perhaps one of the most unique of these was a recent workshop organized by Arcadia, designed to teach us about the art of Graffiti. I remember when I first arrived in Rome I was a bit [...]
Over the weekend, Rome celebrated its 2766th birthday with festivals all around the Eternal City. Walking down the street, I passed buff gladiators (though you can always see a few people dressed up posing with tourists around the Colosseum), emperors with their entourages, and dancers waving banners as they showed off their city’s icons and [...]
As you might imagine, Easter in Rome can be a bit of an overload for the senses. The amount of tourists whipping out maps of the city while trying to cross the street and avoid the swerving vespas skyrockets, Romans don’t hesitate to give a loud and enthusiastic “Buona Pasqua!” (Happy Easter) to each other [...]
Back home Easter is always a family event. I go to church in morning with my mother and father and then the rest of my family comes over to my house in the afternoon for an early dinner. Since this was going to be my first Easter not spent with my family, I didn’t [...]
