ECU Tuscany: Fall 2025

Program dates (August 26 – November 23 – allow you to be home for Thanksgiving with a long holiday break before the spring semester begins on campus.

Fall is our favorite season in Italy, warm and golden, with brilliant colors on the vineyards as grapes are harvested and the weather turns crisp and cool. It’s the time when Italians host many seasonal celebrations; street festivals, food festivals and Medieval games in full costume. Unlike the spring term when weather is cooler, in Fall we enjoy weather warm enough to swim in the Mediterranean Sea!

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After landing in Rome, we begin the program on the Amalfi Coast in a lovely hotel overlooking the bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius. The cliffs and rugged shoreline are covered with pastel colored fishing villages, and we have a spectacular view of them during our boat trip from Positano to Amalfi. Nearby we can tour the ancient ruins of Pompeii before traveling to Orvieto, one of the jewels of Umbria, and a favorite of our students. From there it’s a fun day trip to nearby Civita di Bagnoregio, a tiny village sitting high atop an eroding crest of rock. After settling into our apartments and beginning classes in Certaldo, while weather is still warm we will spend 3 days exploring the Cinque Terre, hiking, swimming and kayaking this memorable world heritage site.

Students have some free weekends and a 5- day fall break for independent travel after our group trip to Lake Garda, where paragliders and sailboats dot the skies above and the water below. Trips to Lucca, Pisa, Florence, and Siena, are easy to take from Certaldo and we will explore the Chianti countryside around Volterra and San Gimignano together on a day trip. We end this semester with three days in the enchanting city of Venice, and 3 days in Rome before flying back to the states.  Both cities are especially lovely during November, with fewer tourists and quieter streets as cool weather and the holiday season begins.

Don’t miss this opportunity to study in Italy during the stunningly beautiful fall season!

Course Registration

Our classes include fine arts, humanities, science, language, kinesiology, and social sciences. Once you have been accepted into the program you will receive an email asking you to re-confirm your class choices. You will not register yourself on campus because our classes will not be listed on the ECU registration website. We will register you in the Study Abroad office. You can drop and add classes during the first week of our semester.

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Fall 2025 Itinerary

Do not book flights until you hear from the director to do so. We need to arrive at about the same time to take advantage of group transportation from the airport.