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Month: July 2011

Clemson students visited the high end cashmere brand Brunello Cucinelli. B. Cucinelli factory is located in Solomeo, a 20 minutes from Perugia, a beautiful village surrounded by sunflower fields.

Over the past thirty years, as his company has grown from a one-man operation to a business employing five hundred people, with an annual turnover of more than two hundred million dollars, Cucinelli has been renovating Solomeo. It was really interesting visiting the backstage of such a company with an annual turnover of more than two hundred million dollars.

Read more from The New Yorker and visit the Cucinelli website — where you can find also an online store in which to spend all of your summer savings.

Umbria Jazz LogoPerugia’s annual jazz festival, Umbria Jazz, begins in just two days! Harvard students, Intensive Italian students and USC/Clemson students will be here to enjoy the concerts and festivities. Perugia’s piazze are already lively as it is in the summer but Umbria Jazz turns the town into a live music festival, day and night! This year’s headliners include Sergio Mendez, Carlos Santana, Gilberto Gil, Liza Minelli, B.B. King and Prince.

Alessandra Pettinelli, Umbra Italian professor, publishes book on how to use Perugia as a “living language laboratory.”

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Umbra alumna Kylie Bearse, an International Journalism Festival intern while in Perugia, will be doing TV weather forecasting.

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