Information Study trip Campania – Harry Wilks Study Center Cuma May 2016. This study trip is offered by the Vergilian Society of America with the objective that teachers not yet familiar to the Campania region and the Harry Wilks Study Center get a good chance to discover the possibilities of this special area. Therefore the Society is willing to pay all costs for full board in double rooms, transport by coach for excursions and entrance to all sites mentioned in the program below. A unique opportunity, especially for teachers starting their careers. Program: Sunday May 1 Participants travel to Naples. Arrival in the afternoon, welcome to the Villa Vergiliana, our Study Center. Welcome dinner, discovering the grounds around our Italian home. Monday May 2 Visit to Paestum, a Greek Colony. We visit the beautiful temples and the museum. Dinner at the Villa. After coffee / tea a short introduction on two workshops planned for tomorrow: Create your own “Grand Tour Portrait”, create a series of stills around the theme “Dying in Herculaneum”. Tuesday May 3 Visit to the Solfatara-volcano, Herculaneum and the beautiful Villa of Poppaea at Oplontis. If weather permits we climb Vesuvius. After dinner we will try to paint our own fresco with authentic Roman techniques and pigments. Wednesday May 4 Visit to the National Archeological Museum of Naples, the akropolis of Cuma, the amphitheatrum Flavium in Pozzuoli and the Piscina Mirabilis in Bacoli. Our final dinner at the Villa. Thursday May 5 Participants will travel home. Practical information: Number of participants is limited to 20. If you want to join this study trip, please respond quickly. Even then it may be wise to postpone the booking of your ticket to Naples; please wait for our message that the study trip will definitely be organized. We expect to have enough participants mid December 2015. We will inform you by then. Study leaders will be Léon Herrman and Merel Somhorst. Scheduling our program we expect most teachers to be familiar with the site of Pompey. If we might be mistaken in that, and if you really want to to visit Pompey, please send a message to us. We can of course think about an arrangement for this. A month before the study trip all participants get a full program and all specific information for the trip. Participants pay for their own ticket to Naples and expenses for travelling from the airport to the villa (about 20 miles). Prolongation of your stay for private study purposes at the villa is possible at the normal rate, departure Saturday May 7 at the latest. For all questions, more information or just for your participation please communicate directly with the study leaders involved by email [email protected]. With very kind regards, on behalf of Antimina Sgariglia and Richard Thomas Léon Herrman .