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Learn Italian in Italy - Cactus Langauge offers a wide range of destinations where to take up Italian Language Course in Italy. Courses are available for all levels and all ages.

Employment
Employers, Agencies & Placement Services 
Crystal Holidays - Offers a variety of ski and summer holidays.
Equity Travel - Employ around 100 people each year in hotels and resorts throughout Europe.
Eurocamp - Friendly, helpful couriers sought for the summer.
Europe Conservation - Spring and summer conservation projects in Italy.
First Choice - Large tour operator.
Inghams - Large employer of ski personnel.
Interski Snowsport School - Employ over 300 Basi Grade 3 (or national equivalent or above) ski instructors each season for Italian resorts. Their temporary instructor package includes a weekly training package, concessionary scheme for spouse / partners, return coach travel, six day lift pass and half board accommodation. Other positions available in the winter include resort assistant, ski / snowboard hire assistant and photographers.
Jolly Italian Au Pair Agency - Italian au pair agency placing au pairs, au pairs plus and mother's help all over Italy from 1995.
The Magic Travel Group - Tour operator in France, Spain, Portugal and Italy.
Mark Warner - Applicants must be over 19 and hold an EU passport. Various jobs connected with running a successful resort are offered, mostly in summer but a few winter positions are available.
Neilson Ski - A wide range of vacancies for the upcoming season.
PGL Ski Europe - Recruits reps for the ski season.
Powder Byrne International - Now have an online job application and job description section. Vacancies for summer and winter work. 
TotalNannies.com - Reular advertiser in the Jobs Abroad Bulletin that offers numerous au pair and nanny vacancies across Italy.
Venue Holidays - Family run company offering self-drive holidays with fully-equipped tents and mobile-homes on sites throughout France, Spain and Italy. They employ Campsite Couriers to assist with the running and maintenance of sites and units. Must be out-going, fit and able to work as a team-member or on own initiative. Knowledge of a major European language helpful but not essential. Season runs from March to October, minimum period 2 months. Wages £100 per week.

Employment Resources
Advice & Useful Sites for Finding Work 
Courmayeur.com - Ski resort.
TEFL Net Nation - Includes I-Zine, for teachers & students of English in Italy.

Gap Year & Voluntary Work
Unpaid Positions & Adventure
British Trust for Conservation Volunteers
Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici - A non profit cultural organisation specialising in prehistoric and tribal art. There are a few fixed roles for skilled volunteers. Volunteers of all nationalities, able to read, write and speak reasonable English are accepted.
English Island Project - Fancy a free holiday in Italy? The Paul Bowley School are looking for young, energetic, outgoing English speakers (preferably English mother-tongue EU citizens) to spend the summer helping to run the "English Island Project" in the heart of the Italian Apennines. They are interested in people who could contribute some particular ability which could translate into fun activities for adults and teenagers such as riding, theatre, music, art, cooking, ecology, sports etc. Board and lodging will be free and there will be a nominal wage. The school wants to create a totally English speaking environment, so all that's required is enthusiastic participation and sparkling conversation. The project will be organised in 6 two-week courses running from the middle of June to the beginning of September. You may apply to work on one or all six courses. Knowledge of Italian is not required. You will not be required to teach, just get involved.

Living in Italy
Real Estate and Resources for Staying Long Term
Case al Sole - Sales of fully restored properties in Tuscany.
Casa.it - Search for a home in Italy. In Italian.
Casa Travella - Estate agency founded in 1987 to make buying in Italy easier.
Expats in Italy - Help for those planning a move to Italy and for those that have already done so. Includes some advice for working and teaching English in the country.
GruppoNorman - Property sales and management.
The Informer - The online guide to living in Italy.
Italian Network - Estate agent with offices across Italy.
Life in Italy.com - A forum covering many aspects of life in Italy including working and travelling and suggestions for those that want to move there.
Live in Rome - You can find classified ads and info all about Rome as well as information on forthcoming events, a shopping guide, suggestions for excursions and the eat and drink section.
Living in Italy - Information and resources for finding and enjoying a home in Italy.
Property Line Malta - Property sales company with several offices in Malta and Gozo. The website is available in several languages and includes a buyers guide, photo gallery and some information for potential sales staff.
Property Malta Direct - Maltese property for sale and let.
Venice Estates - A range of services for buying a home in Venice.

Travelling in Italy
Accommodation & Getting Around
DolceVita - The insider's guide to Italy.
Rome Buddy - Pitched between condemnation and sympathy for the various street characters you will encounter on a visit to Rome, this buddy is a rather cynical and often funny friend that advises on the latest Roman scams and rip offs. Highly recommended and an entertaining read even if you have no intention of going anywhere near Rome.
PrimeItaly.com - A travel guide that also covers some aspects of living in Italy.
Quartopiano Bed and Breakfast -Bed and breakfast in downtown Florence.
Tour-Web - Italian travel agencies and tour operators.

Other
Culture, News...
Academia Leonardo da Vinci - Italian language schools located in Milan, Florence, Rome and Siena.
Cherries Festival in Celleno - Celleno, a green and lovely village in the Viterbo province, just one hour's drive from Rome and Tuscany, is the site of the traditional cherries festival held in June. This site includes Info about the village and the surrounding Tuscia and Tuscany area.
Englisch Sprachreisen Malta - International English language school on the island of Malta. Multi lingual website.
Est Ovest - Learn Italian in Rome while walking among temples and museums: Est Ovest organises an outdoor-indoor course, which starts with visits to places of exceptional artistic relevance (churches, museums, archaeological sites) and continues inside the classroom, where stones and colours become words through a deep lexical and structural work.
Gateway International School of English - In Malta, good English mixes well with Mediterranean sunshine. Gateway offers a broad range of English courses aimed at beginners as well as advanced students, for the young as well as for mature persons. Tuition may be either group and individual tuition and reduced rates may be offered for long stay students. The school offer a fully air-conditioned executive accommodation and a unique combination of learning English with a rich packet of cultural and leisure activities.
Italian Embassy in London
Learning Italian in Italy - A guide to all aspects of learning Italian in an Italian language school or university. The authors spent a year in Italy learning Italian from scratch travelling 18,000 miles in their Mini to select the best language courses for the book.
Learn Italian in Italy - Cactus Langauge offers a wide range of destinations where to take up Italian Language Course in Italy. Courses are available for all levels and all ages.
Siciliano.it - Sicilian search.
Sprachcaffe - Learn English in England, USA, Malta and Australia, French in France, Italian in Italy, Spanish in Spain and Cuba, German in Germany, all in a relaxed atmosphere.
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