Monash Arts Prato: Discovering Europe

Drawing from the wide range of disciplines offered by the Faculty of Arts, the Arts Italy Intensive offers you the opportunity to learn and experience the culture, history, language, society and landscape of one of the most influential world civilisations. Based at our Prato campus in Tuscany, Italy, on the doorstep of Florence, the home of the Italian Renaissance, you will learn at Monash’s Palazzo Vaj, in the heart of one of the best-preserved traditional cultures of Tuscany. You will undertake a rich and varied programme of interactive, classroom-based activities at Palazzo Vaj and excursions to museums, galleries, historic sites and cultural experiences. Through these activities you will draw on history, archaeology, philosophy, literature and music to discover the depth and breadth of the impact of Italy on European and Western culture and the experiences, over time, of humanity’s challenges such as public health, war, religious belief, ideologies, politics and nation-building, race and migration.