Against the backdrop of Florence, a vibrant city layered in Renaissance art and history, you will experience hands-on cooking classes with a professional staff; wine expertise classes, design, hospitality, marketing classes and more. In addition, the study of the Italian language and excursions to art exhibits and museums allow you to immerse yourself fully in the Italian sensibility and its connections to food, art and culture.  Courses at AISH may be taken for as little as one month in the Summer or for a semester in the Fall, Spring and Summer. You may also enroll in a one-year certificate program.

Located in the historic center, Apicius International School of Hospitality offers the finest academic culinary, wine and hospitality studies in all of Italy. Programs are shaped either for people who approach the field of study for the first time, or are experts in the field who wish to refresh and deepen their cultural and practical experience and education.

Apicius has state-of-the-art, newly remodeled and expanded facilities. The school is located just moments away from such treasures as the Duomo, the Ponte Vecchio, the San Lorenzo Church, the Uffizi Gallery.

Combining passionate faculty, an inter-cultural student body, a broad curriculum, and state of the art facilities, Apicius represents a bold and comprehensive learning center in the field of culinary and hospitality studies; born in a historic Italian city, yet positioned to address the future of an international clientele.