Friday, May 7

morning                        Arrival: Registration

Starhotel Metropole

Via Principe Amedeo, 3, 00185 Roma

Tel: (+39) 064741386

                                               www.starhotels.com

13.00                                  Departure from the hotel for a guided sightseeing tour by bus:

Leaving from the "Termini" train station we will pass through Piazza della Repubblica, Via Nazionale to Traforo Umberto. Here we will leave the bus and walk to Trevi Fountain, the Galleria Colonna over Via del Corso (the shopping street of Rome) until we reach Piazza Colonna where we will stop to have a coffee break inside the Tempio Adriano (offered by the Regional Union Chamber of Commerce/ Rome Chamber of Commerce). Afterwards we will continue our walk to the Pantheon, Piazza Madama and of course to one the most beautiful squares in the world: Piazza Navona. We will then go back to the bus and return to the hotel passing along the river Tevere, Muro Torto, Villa Borghese and Via Veneto and back to Piazza della Repubblica.

ca. 17.30                      Arrival at the hotel                               

18.45                            Departure from the hotel for dinner:

Welcome speech by a representative of the Roman Commune at the Campidoglio (the City Council) followed by a short visit of the Musei Capitolini and a dinner on the terrace of the Vittoriano  (an impressive example of "Umbertian" style architecture built to commemorate the first king of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II di Savoia and informally called “the typewriter”). As the Vittoriano is usually not open for events of this kind this will be a unique opportunity to visit this monument.

ca. 23.00                      Transfer back to the hotel

Saturday, May 8

from 07.30                    Table set-up for SA schools, schools set up material in the meeting room

09.15                           Opening speech

09.30                           Start workshop sessions at the Starhotel Metropole

11.10 – 11.40                Coffee break

11.40 – 13.20                Workshop sessions

13.20 – 14.50                Lunch break

14.50 – 16.30                Workshop sessions

16.30 – 17.00                Coffee break

17.00 – 18.30                Workshop sessions

19.45                            Walk (about 10 minutes) from the hotel to the school Dilit International

                                    House for a dinner party with music and lots of fun.

Sunday, May 9

09.30 – 10.50                Workshop sessions

10.50 – 11.20                Coffee break

11.20 – 13.00                Workshop sessions and closing ceremony

until 12.00                     Check out

13.00 – 14.30                Lunch break

15.00 – 18.00                Departure from the hotel for a guided tour by bus:

We will see the Valle del Colosseum, the Foro Romano and San Pietro in Vincoli (Mosè di Michelangelo).

Famtrip (for the agents who booked the extra day)

18.00                            After the tour transfer to Ostia, the Roman seaside.

                                    Ostia used to be Rome's harbour for centuries and is still the city’s main access to the sea.

ca. 18.45                      Arrival at the hotel in Ostia; Check-in

19.45                            Departure from the hotel

20.00                            Dinner

ca. 23.00                      Transfer back to the hotel

Monday, May 10

08.45                            Departure from the hotel for a guided tour of the ruins of Ostia Antica:

                                               the archaeological park is one of the most important historic areas in the world. From here the Romans, during the glories of "Roma caput mundi", used to leave to conquer the regions along the Mediterranean Sea, but also the place from where they received provisions for the city. This site is one the most visited museums in Italy.(source: Comune di Roma)
After the visit to the ruins we will go to the port and go on a beautiful boat trip on the river Tevere until the new Port of Ostia where the bus will be waiting. We will then visit the nearby football school "Francesco Totti" and the Country Club Castelfusano located in the wonderful centuries-old pine woods where we organise our summer programmes.

12.30                            Prosecco at the private castle of the family Chigi,

an old nobile Roman family. The castle used to be an old hunting lodge. Today they still live in the castle and host our summer school on the area around the castle.

13.30                                                      Lunch

 After lunch: transfer to the airport