Benvenuti ..for 2009 session information click on "LR Real Time / Updates"
Our 2008 season has just come to a close. It’s like the end of the holidays around here, the scent of home cooked meals still lingering in the kitchens, the laughter still ringing in the halls, the air of fresh artistic endeavor hovering in the studio, the season’s last arrivaderci as our bus heads off toward the airport.) After four full decades of offering the most complete, problem-free cross-cultural art seminars, the secret of Bella Umbria has gotten out. Each season seems more exciting and popular…and at La Romita, that’s saying something. The secret of our artistic vacations could be the fact that artists of all levels work together in a carefree environment inspiring one another while soaking in the ambience of the preceding centuries…five hundred year old paintings and frescoes decorate the walls of our studio-chapel.
…or the secret could be the fact that in Italy, food is one of the finest arts…and the Umbrian country cuisine served at La Romita is as steeped in history as the most complex renaissance painting.
…or that the exquisite local grapes: Sangiovese reds and Orvieto Classico whites, (served with our meals), work in tandem with the warmth of the Umbrian people to fill you with the spirit of Italy.
…or the Umbrian hilltowns themselves. After Assisi and Perugia, the towns you go to are off the beaten path…practically off the map…jewels of architecture and history spilling from the hilltops…written broadly across the landscape.
…or, perhaps the greatest secret of all, that in these towns you will probably be the only tourists present, that you will be appreciated for what you offer to the locals…a mirror through the arts of the lives and culture they value so highly…and that these people will greet you and welcome you and be sad to see you go…that language is no barrier. This is not an exaggeration…it happens group after group. So come to La Romita…for the painting and expert instruction regardless of your level of expertise…or come for the daily hilltown trips and the food and shopping and wine and museums. There is, quite simply, no better way to immerse yourself in the deep sweet glow of Italy…and learn a secret to keep for the rest of your life.
