Student Life
Castello garden
This summer the master class week at Montisi begins on Tuesday evening with a group 'welcome dinner' in the Castello garden (19:00) for orientation and to allow participants to meet the Piccola Accademia staff and each other. The rhythm of each week will be set by the individual master class teachers, but generally classes will take place in the morning (9:30 to 13:00, and in the afternoon 16:00-19:00, the evenings are available for practice and socialising. The master class week ends Sunday evening with a public student concert (18:00), and finishing with a farewell dinner at the Castello.
Lunch at the Castello garden
Montisi is a compact and easy to manage environment once you've arrived. Within the village there are two restaurants, da Roberto's Taverna in Montisi (www.tavernamontisi.com) and La Romita (www.laromita.net), a cafe for lunches and a bar for morning coffee and drinks, with other choices available in neighbouring villages. There is a small 'alimentari' (food shop), a post office and a bank with cash machine all within metres of the Piccola Accademia's home, the Castello di Montisi. The Piccola Accademia also has a chef who will make lunches and dinners available every day in the gardens of the school's "Castello" at a very reasonable cost.
Student Accommodation
To provide a choice of affordable student housing, Piccola Accademia has negotiated special student rates for a number of rooms within Montisi. Students should book directly with their chosen hotel or room after class registration is confirmed.
Santa Caterina
Bed & Breakfast with swimming pool
• Single rooms inclusive breakfast: 50 euros
• Single rooms without breakfast: 48 euros
• Double rooms inclusive breakfast: 35 euros per person
• Double rooms without breakfast: 33 euros
• Triple rooms inclusive breakfast: 30 euros per person
• Triple rooms without breakfast: 28 euros
For information and reservations:
Lalla: Cell. +39 347 679 1125
Sergio: Cell. +39 335 814 6577
Telephone: +39 057 784 5180
Email: elianasergio@tiscali.it
Address: Via Umberto 1° NR 187A, Montisi, Siena
La Locanda
A small and convenient hotel in the centre of town, located on the small piazza that is the heart of the lower village
• Single room inclusive breakfast: 45 euros
• Double room inclusive breakfast: 65 euros
For information and reservations:
Roberto: Tel. +39 0577-845906
Email: info@lalocandadimontisi.it
Website: www.lalocandadimontisi.it
Travel to Montisi
BY AIR: Montisi can be reached from airports in Florence (120 km), Pisa (Galileo Galilei Airport, 190 km), Perugia (Umbria International Airport, 76 km) and Rome (Fiumincino and Ciampino Airports, 210 km). For train times and ticket booking visit www.trenitalia.it. The site provides a simple and easy-to-use service. Students travelling by train should consider Sinalunga or Buonconvento as a final destination depending on the hour.
BY CAR: For those driving to Montisi, a printable set of directions is available on the Piccola Accademia website.
BY TRAIN: There is a private train connection from Arezzo to Sinalunga that is not listed in all the train timetables. You can find the timetable of this connection here.
IMPORTANT IF YOU ARE ARRIVING BY TRAIN: If you are arriving by train you can use the Taxi service from Sinalunga or Buonconvento train station. Because there is hardly any public transport from Sinalunga or Buonconvento to Montisi, it is extremely important that you keep us up to date of your arrival TIME and PLACE so that we can organize your transport from the train station to Montisi. Please send your travel information and your mobile phone number to this email address annasantapukki@me.com before your travel. You can reach us from these phone numbers.
Language
While the teaching language for classes is determined by each instructor, the Piccola Accademia Is an international institution and our staff amongst them speak Italian, French, Russian, FInnish, Swedish and English and will be happy to support students in their home language where possible.
Montisi photos by © Walter Coppenrath Montisi-Los Angeles. |
