Pupils studying Art and Classics at Burgess Hill School for Girls spent six days in Italy viewing the Art in Rome.
The 28 pupils visited the Vatican Museums and St Peter’s Basilica for the artwork and the Capitoline Museums where they viewed the sculptures of Michelangelo and Bernini and the Capitoline She-wolf.
The girls travelled across Rome to visit the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Pantheon, Piazza Navona, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain and several Baroque churches.
The girls also stayed in Sorrento and visited Pompeii and Herculaneum to see the remnants of the towns that were preserved by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in AD 79. The girls took an expedition up Mount Vesuvius but thick cloud cover and a sudden hail storm cut the visit short.
Year 11 student, Eliza McHugh, commented, “We studied Pompeii as part of Year 7 Latin, and to see it for real gave a remarkable insight into Roman life.
Herculaneum was even more impressive as, although it was much smaller, it is much better preserved than Pompeii and the details like the graffiti and wall art grabbed our imaginations and aided our understanding of Roman life.”