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This webpage is thought, written, managed by Siena School's current students.

Interaction is the soul of the study abroad experience! Participate to Siena's social life and let your voice be heard on Siena School for Liberal Arts blog and website!

Happy Easter!

Our photography teacher, Jacqueline Tune, proposed a fun project for each student to create a self-portrait photograph wearing an "Easter Bonnet" they have designed themselves.  Needless to say, materials a...

Excursion to Perugia & Trasimeno Lake

Yesterday students from the Siena School for Liberal Arts and the Siena Art Institute took a trip to Umbria.  They explored the historic city of Perugia and also stopped by the giant lake Trasimeno, enjoying ...

Spring Semester Orientation Trip

On Sunday Jan 26 we travelled to the hilltop town of San Gimignano with our newly-arrived students from the Siena Art Institute & Siena School for Liberal Arts.  The day included a group lunch together and...

San Gimignano Excursion

We have a trip to the nearby hilltown of San Gimignano, here in the Province of Siena, for our first orientation excursion with our study abroad students from Siena School for Liberal Arts & Siena Art I...

Two-City Excursion

Students recently went on a two-city excursion with professor Roberto around Siena. The first stop was the Tuscan city Cortona. This famous hill town can be spotted as the setting for novel and movie Under ...

Student Question & Answer

Student Interview This is a segment of interviews with the students of Siena School for Liberal Arts. Our interns sat down with students individually and created a question and answer format conversation...

Student Interview

This is a new segment of interviews with the students of Siena School for Liberal Arts. Our interns sat down with students individually and created a question and answer format conversation about their...

First Impression

My first impressions of Siena were all of awe. I am still fascinated with the views of the Duomo that I see from my host mom’s apartment. Each day it changes slightly, depending on the time of day and t...

The Best Experience

I m Celia, a 19 year old Spanish girl completing my Erasmus at Siena School For Liberal Arts. I am currently working within communications where I help manage social media, graphic design and the school...

The Great Return

  I am currently working with Siena School for Liberal Arts where I will be managing blogs, student activities and social media. This is the great return to the great Siena as I have already studied ...

The Adventure Doesn't End Here

By this time next week, the students—and myself—will have departed Siena, or will be about to depart. They’re thinking about how unbelievable it is that four months just flew by; meanwhile I can’t compreh...

Don't Be Afraid to Get Lost

I’ve always been a bit of an explorer. For example, I’m the kind of person who spends more time clambering over rocks and digging through the sand at the beach than, well, doing actual beach things. I’m...

Unlike Any Other City

My first time in Italy was in Venice. I was on a family trip and we were stopping by London, Budapest, Paris, and Barcelona as well... all within a week. Needless to say, this tasting menu version didn’t s...

Exploring the Beauty of Tuscany

After a long and rainy winter we are finally finding ourselves under that Tuscan sun everyone had told us about. Siena is in its prime: beautiful sunny hillsides visible from our school which is situated...

Friends from Home

One of my best friends from Wellesley is also studying abroad this semester, in Dublin. She had a two-week spring break, and she spent part of it travelling to Italy and visiting me! She flew into Milan...

A Breath of Fresh Air

During my time at a small liberal arts college, I heard plenty about the value of a liberal arts education. Although I’ve spent three years trying to create breadth in my schedule, I often find myself n...

Traveling in Italy

As a study abroad student, you can’t choose a better place than Italy, as there are so many beautiful places to visit that you don’t even need to hop on a plane for. This is both cost and time efficient. Only a c...

Museum Studies in Siena

The most frequent I get asked in Italy is “why did you decide to come to Siena?” My answer, before I left the United States, was, “I want to be in Italy for study abroad, and the Siena School offers a mus...

First Field Trip of the Semester

Our first official field trip was to the Chianti region. Just outside of Siena, among those famous rolling hills visible from the school’s window is wine country. We doubled up in cars and headed down t...

Field Trip to Chianti

For our first field trip of the semester, the students spent the day in the Chianti region of Tuscany. We visited ruins of an ancient castle in the middle of the woods and an organic vineyard. We drove...
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