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Thursday 19th June
This Istituto Rezzara is for ‘Adult and Senior Citizens’, their equivalent of our Senior Studies Institute. While we are fortunate to be part of a large University our Italian friends have to meet many expenses by fund raising.
Presentations by participants from Slovakia (Bratislava), Germany(Ulm), Italy(Vicenza), the Czech Republic(Prague and Brno) and Scotland(Glasgow) gave an overview of the differences and similarities across the participating countries. Our group had prepared short PowerPoint presentations on
- The Euconet Project of the Senior Studies in Glasgow
- E-Learning: some free Internet courses and one U3A on Italian Art.
- Using Pal Talk to participate in a net meeting
- ‘Learning Bytes’ and ‘The Internet made easy’ – A CDROM for Scottish people.
Translations were made by the delightful young volunteer, Cecilia Furin, and included further information about the situation in Slovakia, courses for senior citizens in the Czech Republic, “Town Stories” in Ulm and results of work done in Vicenza on searches for books, websites and materials for older people in Italy.
I particularly remember Maria Grazia Testa’s description of a Virtual Internet Café on their Educational TV channel. There themes of public interest, such as World Fair Trade, are discussed, interviews are made with people on the streets and the Internet is used as a means of completing the topic - a good way to get people interested in IT.
At lunch in a nearby Restaurant and coffee in a sunlit courtyard at the Institute gave opportunities to chat to other participants and make friends.
Later that afternoon we were taken on a walking tour of Vicenza. This fascinating city was transformed in the 16th century by the work of Andrea Palladio, the famous Italian architect who gave his name to the Palladian style of architecture. (picture)
At its centre is the grand Piazza del Signori. Standing there we were surrounded by beautiful white marble buildings dominated by Palladio’s Basilica and the adjoining clock tower, 83 metres high. All around is classical architecture and my delight was to go to the square in the early morning and sit in the shade of one of the two columns, marking the end of the square, and survey the scene. During our tour we lost Val, Jean and Eric who disappeared into an Internet café. The owner was surprised to see them as no senior citizens of Vizenca ever go there.
One of Palladio’s last designs was for the Teatro Olympico and that evening we gathered for a wonderful classical concert - Una Serata All’Opera. Everyone thrilled to the strength and purity of the voice of the soprano, Gabriella Costa as we sat on tiered wooden seats The whole theatre is built of wood but cleverly painted to look like marble with many statues adding to the grandeur. A long stemmed white rose given to all the ladies perfectly completed an unforgettable evening. But then it was all too perfect a night to go to sleep and the Glasgow group met with Professor Rüdel Reinhardt from Ulm for late evening drinks and conversation in the Piazza del Signori
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Translations were made by the delightful young volunteer, Cecilia Furin, and included further information about the situation in Slovakia, courses for senior citizens in the Czech Republic, “Town Stories” in Ulm and results of work done in Vicenza on searches for books, websites and materials for older people in Italy.
I particularly remember Maria Grazia Testa’s description of a Virtual Internet Café on their Educational TV channel. There themes of public interest, such as World Fair Trade, are discussed, interviews are made with people on the streets and the Internet is used as a means of completing the topic - a good way to get people interested in IT.
At lunch in a nearby Restaurant and coffee in a sunlit courtyard at the Institute gave opportunities to chat to other participants and make friends.
Later that afternoon we were taken on a walking tour of Vicenza. This fascinating city was transformed in the 16th century by the work of Andrea Palladio, the famous Italian architect who gave his name to the Palladian style of architecture. (picture)
At its centre is the grand Piazza del Signori. Standing there we were surrounded by beautiful white marble buildings dominated by Palladio’s Basilica and the adjoining clock tower, 83 metres high. All around is classical architecture and my delight was to go to the square in the early morning and sit in the shade of one of the two columns, marking the end of the square, and survey the scene. During our tour we lost Val, Jean and Eric who disappeared into an Internet café. The owner was surprised to see them as no senior citizens of Vizenca ever go there.
One of Palladio’s last designs was for the Teatro Olympico and that evening we gathered for a wonderful classical concert - Una Serata All’Opera. Everyone thrilled to the strength and purity of the voice of the soprano, Gabriella Costa as we sat on tiered wooden seats The whole theatre is built of wood but cleverly painted to look like marble with many statues adding to the grandeur. A long stemmed white rose given to all the ladies perfectly completed an unforgettable evening. But then it was all too perfect a night to go to sleep and the Glasgow group met with Professor Rüdel Reinhardt from Ulm for late evening drinks and conversation in the Piazza del Signori
