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In the heart of Florence, the Language Center offers to their own students the availability of participating at language, art and culture courses. The teachers at ABC Center are Florentines who are certified or have studied at Florence University. They have experience in teaching the Italian language to foreigners have apprenticed with experienced teachers at the center and are
extremely friendly and welcoming.

Listed below, is an example of how to spend your time at the our language Center:

1. A wide choice in Italian language courses.
2. Art and culture courses.
3. Afternoon seminars on current Italian issues.
4. Student Lounge.
5. Up to date information regarding cultural events, concerts, art shows, meeting places and economical shopping.
6. Guided tours of Florence, Tuscany and Italy.
7. Dinners, parties, visits to the countryside and to the sea group visits to the cinema and theatre.
8. Carefully selected accommodation.
9. Young and qualified teachers.
10. A reduced number of students per class (Max 7-10).

OPEN ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS

HIGH LEVEL ART INSTITUTE
A NEW ACADEMY FOR EUROPE IN FLORENCE
The Academy wants to be an important point of mediation between the latest artistic tendencies and the sensitivity of a city like Florence which has given great value to its artistic heritage and has developed a strong cultural identity.

TRADITION AND EXPERIMENTATION
The Academy pursues contemporary artistic tendencies without renouncing tradition, which is the basis of any experimentation. The Academy aims at training professionals who possess technical as well as creative instruments in order to be competitive in the work field, and constantly capable to adapt themselves to new experiences.

ART TECHNOLOGY: AESTHETICS FOR THE THIRD MILLENIUM
Artistic research takes into great consideration new technological resources for a greater functionality and flexibility requested by all new professions. The Academy offers courses of Specialization - Art and Design, Industrial Computer design, Computer design, Computer graphics - where technology merges with technique for a new concept in aesthetics.

DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE WORLD OF ART...
The Academy provides excellent and experienced teaching staffs, who, together with the curricular subjects, frequently, organize meetings and seminars with artists, art critics, as well as experts in industry and artistic handcraft. Visiting galleries and museums and having cultural exchanges with other Academies and European Universities is extremely important. Students' works are often exhibited in order to have public response. Also, the Institute organizes conferences on important themes in art and culture.

DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE WORLD OF WORK
Whilst attending the courses, students have the opportunities to do some work experiences promoted by the Academy together with firms in the multimedia field, design, applied arts, restoration as well as staging for theatre shows and exhibitions.

International Institute of fashion design and marketing organizes specialized courses of design, production, commercialization and marketing, with the aim to create a close collaboration between the academic and production worlds, besides providing a constant comparison with the international panorama.
Founded in 1986 on the initiative and financing of the Town halls of Florence and Prato and some business associations, in collaboration with the Fashion Institute of Technology of the State University of New York.
The school provides students with a quality professional training in accordance with company demands.
Our school is a member of the IFFTI (International Foundation of Fashion technology Institutes) and offers courses of professional formation in collaboration with the Region Toscana, the Provinces of Florence and Prato and with the funds of the European Union.

A SCHOOL WITH CLOSE TIES TO INDUSTRY

Fashion - one of Italy's most important export items - is continuously drawing upon emerging talent and renewing its creative energies. To help this process along, The school maintains close ties to the world of industry through the organization of seminars, guided tours of companies, meetings with entrepreneurs and representatives from various sectors of industry, conferences with specialists and leading figures within the world of fashion.

Some of the stylists collaborating with our school have been:

Patrick Robinson from Giorgio Armani, Rebecca Moses, Mariuccia Mandelli for Krizia, Rosita and Tai Missoni, Paul Mocherie for Iceberg, Giovanna Ferragamo for Ferragamo, Laura Biagiotti, Stephan Janson, Ennio Capasa for Costume National, Alessandro Dell'Acqua, Rebecca Moses, Scott Crolla for Callaghan, Roberto Cavalli, Stefano Guerriero, Mauro Taliani for Hugo Boss, Tom Ford from Gucci, Antonio Marras, Chiara Boni, Micol Fontana, Massimo Rebecchi.

Leading fashion houses that sponsor our school:

Ecafil Best, Salvatore Ferragamo, Gerber Technology Italia, Gaetano Marzotto & F. Spa, Lanificio Pecci Enrico & C., Ratti Spa, Yves Saint Laurent, Mila Schön Group Spa, Gianni Versace Spa, Ermenegildo Zegna.

More than a school, Alchimia is a way of thinking.
Alchemy was not simply an art designed to produce gold, but an entire philosophy the principle of which was the "absolute purity" with which the alchemist came face to face with the matter, leaving his creative energy complete freedom to expand, and even allowing himself to be guided by it. In the same way, at our school, the ever-present creative energy pervades everything, effecting a transmutation not only in the objects but also in those who produce them.