Universities of Agriculture in Italy - Reviews
The link you can click here, on the left, goes to the Italian Education, University and Research Department (MIUR), where you will find a search-engine that let you access a page, in which you can get information about each degree activated in all the Italian universities.
Besides you can start searching your favourite keywords.
The link on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Milan (northern Italy).
Some information about Milan:
Milan lies in the north part of Italy, in the center of the most important traditional industrial zone.
Milan is one of the most important financial centers in Europe. The financial life develops in 'Piazza Affari', a little place in the center of the city, not far from the gothic-style cathedral (Duomo). 'Piazza Affari hosts the Italian most important stock-exchange market.
Milan is also well known for his international fashion firms and, consequently, in this town you can find a lot of places where you can enjoy a pleasant night-life, during the breaks of your intense studying days.
The local agriculture is mainly in the southern-neighbourhood of Milan and includes industrialized livestock breeding, with among the highest production of milk in Italy. Other local agriculture products are meat, rice, maize (used as dairy-cattle feed), greenhouse-flowers and ornamental-nurseries. In the most recent years also the garden & urban-green industry has increased, while the citizen people ask for wider open-space to move during their spar-time.
In many towns of the northern part of Italy take also place, yearly, some of the Italian most important agricultural Fairs and Expos (Verona, Cremona, Bologna, Parma, Piacenza). Such events allow you to improve your knowledge about international technologies for farming, cattle breeding, as well as about Italian typical agrifood brand-productions (DOP, IGP, DOC, etc.).
Other increasingly attended events are landscape-design, garden-architecture, environment-nature protection meetings, that often develop in the context of ancient historic places where history, landscape, cooking, music, fashion join and melt each other.
Have fun, hopefully studying.
(This review has been revised on February 27, 2016)
The link placed here, on the left address you to the Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Food Sciences at the University of Torino (Turin).
- The link placed here, on the left, goes to the English web site of the Faculty of Mathemathics, Fisic and Natural Sciences, at Verona (Veneto).
In this faculty you can attend Agro-Industrial Bio-Technologies courses as well as the university degree about winery and enology sciences and technologies. - Verona is located in Veneto, that is in the north-east part of Italy, its climate is continental. Climate in Veneto benefits of the mild influence of the nearby Garda Lake, the largest and one of the most beautiful glacial lakes in Italy. In this region agriculture profits and thrives because of this particularly good meteorological conditions.
In the neighbourhoods of Verona we can find two different sorts of agriculture: hill agricolture and plain agricolture.
On the hills we can find vineyards, on the plain maize and cattle breeding.
(This review has been revised on February 27, 2016)
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the English web site of Agriculture Department at University of Padua.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Udine.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Piacenza.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of FoodScience at University of Parma.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Bologna.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Department of LifeSciences at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, two towns located near Bologna, the chief town of Emilia Romagna (northern part of Italy).
(This review has been revised on February 27, 2016)
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the english website of the D3A Department: Agriculture, Food, Environment at the University of Ancona.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Department of Agriculture at University of Florence.
Here there are, for you, some little information about Florence:
- Who doesn't know Florence?! The better way to increase your knowledge of Florence is by purchasing a good touristic guide; this way you will be able to know all the ancient and beautiful places in this town.
Florence lies in the center-north side of Italy, between mountains (the Apennine Tosco-Emiliano) and a lot of hills, with woods and cultivations of olive trees; somewhere, on top of the hills, near ancient houses are also groups of ancient cypresses.
Moving more southwards and westwards you will find vineyards, producing some of the most known Italian wines. - Also the landscape is one of the most beautiful you can desire to see: in the landscape of Florence are located some historic gardens, created between the late medioeval period and the Renaissance, by the Medici family, who ruled this town in the same period; these gardens are considered among the most important examples of 'Italian-Garden' style.
(This review has been revised on February 27, 2016)
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Italian page of the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Pisa, one of the most renowned in Italy.
Here there are, for you, some further information about Pisa:
- Pisa is an ancient Italian town, it was one of the four Italian 'Maritime Republics' (with Venice, Genua and Amalfi); in that period Pisa was a very powerful and rich town and with its prosperity, also sciences and arts developed.
- At Pisa lived Gallileo Gallilei who, first, from the top of the local ancient tower, could admire the earth moving around the sun and study the gravity dropping objects.
The ancient tower of Pisa was famous in the world as the 'Torre Pendente' (leaning tower) because of its enhanced slope, along one of its sides.
- In the neighborhoods of Pisa, Lucca and Pistoia (placed between Florence and Pisa) are some of the most important Italian nurseries; here you can buy beautiful samples of mediterranean flora for your garden and, similarly, from here many plants are carried to the north towns to decorate villas and gardens.
Also for this reason one of the most developed branch of studies at Pisa university is devoted to 'Landscape Studies' (landscape architecture).
(This review has been revised on February 27, 2016)
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Perugia.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Department of Agriculture at University of Viterbo.
The link placed here, on the left, addresses you to the Agriculture Department at University of Naples.
Here there are, for you, some little information about Naples:
- Naples is the chief town of Campania and the most important city in the center-south Italian regions.
It is a variegated town, with lot of historic places.
It lies in the south-west part of Italy, between the Tirreno sea and the Vesuvio, an high volcano, located near the south side of this town.
Naples was the capital of the 'Two Sicilies' Kingdom and was ruled by various different dynasties until, in 1861, all the southern Italy was occupied by the troops of Giuseppe Garibaldi, who joined this regions to the Kingdom of Piedmont, once ruled by Vittorio Emanuele II of Savoia (a French-native dynasty) to create Italy, whose capital is Rome since 1870.
The Naples' Federico II University takes his name from Federico II of "Svevia" (1194-1250), an ancient king of the 'Two Sicilies' Kingdom, who was also a poet and a 'mecenate' (filantropist); he promoted the development of arts in this Southern Italy.
- From Naples and his region (Campania) come some of the Italian best-known food-products, like: spaghetti, pizza and mozzarella.
Campania produces a lot of crops, among them we can list: juice-tomatoes used to cook spaghetti (mostly from the local cv. San Marzano) and other vegetables, flowers, fruit (particularly peaches and citrus fruits), alimentary olives, and oil.
(This review has been revised on February 27, 2016)
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Campobasso.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Bari.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Foggia.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Potenza.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Reggio Calabria.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Catania.
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Palermo (Sicily).
The link placed here, on the left, goes to the Faculty of Agriculture at University of Sassari.
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