explore Italy

VIRTUALTOUR

In collaboration with IACE. New, for those who want to take their class on a virtual trip to Italy.

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explore Italy

VIRTUALTOUR

In collaboration with IACE. New, for those who want to take their class on a virtual trip to Italy.

SUPERCIAO TOUR Edu-cultural Travel Made in Italy, in collaboration with IACE, Italian American Committee on Education, New York, offers to American students a wonderful, unique opportunity:

  • to enjoy a real-life experience in getting to know Italy, its culture, way of life, and traditions, as well as its incomparable beauty
  • to promote a dialogue among students, aimed at comparing different traditions, habits, and aspects of culture
  • to work both online and on-site in various configurations: groups/classrooms/schools/individually. The Virtual Journey takes place “live” via ZOOM in seven sessions over seven days with specialized guides, who tour with you, the following famous Italian cities:
    MILANO – VENEZIA – FIRENZE – ROMA – SIENA – POMPEI o NAPOLI.

Greetings from Italy

Procedure

1. Please read the DETAILS carefully. Details
2. Make sure to note the QUOTE. Quote
3. Fill in the REGISTRATION FORM and wait for confirmation via email with the payment codes. Registration
4. Proceed to PAYMENT. Payment
5. Choose the date and time of the 7 meetings by clicking on BOOKING YOUR VIRTUAL TRIP and wait for confirmation. Booking
6. Access your CUSTOMER AREA whenever you like. Customer Area

Program

A specialized guide in each city meets the group of students from the start and remains with them throughout their stay in that city.

Day 1
Presentation of the tour guide and a simulated organization of the departure and preparation of the necessary luggage. Delivery of a travel backpack to each class and everything needed for participating in the journey live.

Day 2
The trip begins in Milano with a visit to Piazza Duomo, Castello Sforzesco, and Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.

Day 3
Simulated breakfast and first visit to Venezia. The specialized tour guide “accompanies” the group to Piazza San Marco, a walking and gondola tour along the streets of Venezia. Journey to Firenze with lunch at a motorway restaurant, known as Autogrill, and simulation of the self-service meal by the tour guide.

Day 4
Guided tour of Firenze. Video presentation of Michelangelo’s David. Visit to the shops of Oltrarno and interview with a local craftsman.

Day 5
Transfer to Roma with a stop in Siena to visit Piazza del Campo and participate in a live tour of the city.

Day 6
In Roma, the guide accompanies the group live while walking through the Fori Romani, the Colosseo, and Circo Massimo and presents a pre-recorded video of San Pietro and Castel Sant’Angelo.

Day 7
Transfer to Pompei. The students watch pizza being prepared either live or via video. Visit to the excavations of Pompei. (Alternatively, Naples).

Organization

1. Virtual journey: The virtual Journey is comprised of seven tours/sessions of about an hour each in duration to be carried out in the classroom/auditorium on seven different days. Students are connected live to Italy via ZOOM. Travel dates and times can be reserved through our booking system.
2. Duration of each session: The connection is set at about 40/60 minutes, to be confirmed according to schedules and school needs.
3. Specialized Tour Guides: Each tour guide is in Italy and will connect with the class via ZOOM.
4. Video recordings: All sessions will be video recorded so that you can review the cities you visit online at any time. We will provide short videos in English of those museums where live connections are not possible. The videos will remain available to teachers for further study and work in the classroom.
5. Materials and gadgets: Students will receive various materials from Superciao Tour. Specifically: travel kits and work cards that will be sent to the teacher/school in advance. You will receive for the group: 3 UNESCO card boxes of the sites you visit (in English) Travel kit (backpack, bracelet, hat, fake Euro banknotes, EduPocket info, poster) Teacher’s instruction booklet.
6. Online Support: The detailed Travel Program is available online with links to UNESCO videos and fact sheets.

Jun 16, 2022 by Anna Maggiore (teacher), Manchester HS, CT
What an amazing opportunity! As teachers we strive to provide as authentic learning experiences as possible. The live tours are the next best thing to being in Italy. The enthusiastic and knowledgeable tour guides brought the tours to “life”. We learned so many interesting facts about the sites and the surroundings; saw first hand tourists and spaces of the city and people going about their day, even a bride and groom at a site. There is truly much learning to extract from these live tours. Infinite thanks to Federica and the Superciao team. Bravissimi! Complimenti!

May 20, 2021 by Elisabetta Haversat (teacher), Derby HS, CT
This has been a fantastic, authentic, and informative experience for my students. They were highly engaged during all the visits. The itinerary is great, our meets were weekly, this allowed to stretch the lesson beyond the day of the tour, to explore vocabulary and grammar in the context of the culture of each city we visited.

May 20, 2022 by Dilshoda (student)
I enjoyed all the tours that were shown to us! The guides were very good at explaining the details and history of the places we saw in Italy. It felt like we were actually there. Each tour made me want to visit Italy more and more. Everyone in our Italian class had such a fun experience. It was so interesting, I got to learn things I never knew before. I will cherish the memories. Thank you for all the effort!

Jun 8, 2022 by Daryna Koziy (student)
I think this website is an amazing educational source. It provides many resources for students and teachers. The tours were also very educational and resourceful. I have never been to Italy, but these tours have inspired me to go there someday. I feel like this helped with the Italian language as well, as some names were in Italian and we got to know why certain things were called a certain way. Not only that, but this was very insightful on the Italian culture and how to travel like a local. I would use this program again and recommend it to everyone as it is a one of a kind experience.

Jun 10, 2021 by Michelle (student)
It was fun seeing italy live.

Mar 29, 2022 by Marissa Passantino (student)
I loved the trip. It was much better to see it with a tour guide than any pictures or videos on google could show you. The people we were on zoom with were very friendly and made the experience amazing!

Mar 29, 2022 by Giovanna R (student)
I loved the trip, I think it was such a wonderful experience! Italy is so beautiful and I learned so many new things on this tour. The guides were all so kind and very informative.