Liberal Arts Trip to Italy: A Photo Diary
This summer Liberal Arts took a trip to Italy, ‘Touring the Aesthetic’, in line with the second year unit ‘Experiencing the Aesthetic’. This was open to both second and third year students, creating a group of twenty. We stayed in Rome for three nights then travelled to Naples, including a day trip to Pompeii and Sorrento. The trip included a ‘festival of research’ in the British School of Rome as well as visiting the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, the Colosseum and the Borghese gallery. In Naples we had a walking tour of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, especially ‘My Brilliant Friend’ which we read prior to the trip.
Day One: Walking tour of Fascist Architecture (EUR), Vatican City, St. Peter’s Basilica and the Trevi Fountain
Day Two: Presentations at the British School of Rome and the Borghese Gallery
Apollo and Daphne
By Bernini, 1622-1625
Day Three: Visit to the Colosseum
Day Four: Day trip to Pompeii and Sorrento
Day Five: Elena Ferrante walking tour in Naples
‘and flew excitedly down the slope that led to the tunnel… We held each other by the hand and entered.’
By Isobel Turner - Editor, History Pathway
Photography by Emelye Goult, Felicity Woodhams, Isobel Turner (@dissonantrose) and Laura Nesbitt