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Welcome
Studying abroad is always a rewarding experience. Firstly, studying in a country with a different culture and a different education system will enrich your life. What’s more, it could definitely also offer you greater prospects of finding the career most suited to your professional aspirations.
Our SSML San Domenico International Campus programmes and wide range of subjects, mean that the SSML gives you the opportunity to study the subjects that best reflect your interests and ambitions. You will immediately feel at home, thanks to a one-to-one relationship with your tutors combined with our innovative teaching and research facilities.

The SSML San Domenico International Campus was conceived as an open campus in the cosmopolitan city of Rome, and it has large spaces at its disposal. It stands out for its role as a “laboratory”, not just for teaching and research but also for its relations with the local area, with major industrial groups and with small and medium-sized businesses. Our privileged position allows us to guarantee our students interdisciplinary teaching and courses that will help them to enter the world of work.

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The SSML as it is commonly known, is a university that believes strongly in its students combining their studies with an intense, active life. This is why it embraces various students’ associations among them Astrambiente , Asrambientesport and Unitalia. Many of them were set up to give you the chance to take part in cultural, sporting and artistic events and initiatives. This will allow you to get to know not only Italian students, but also many other students from different countries around the world.
We are happy to extend a warm welcome from our Director and President.

Rome and “Pigneto”
A city with a rich historic and cultural tradition, Rome is the capital of Italy and one of the world’s great historic cities. It has been an important center of civilization for more than 2,000 years. Because of Rome’s long history, it is called the “Eternal City”. Rome is also one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Its ancient monuments and magnificent churches and palaces stand as reminders of Rome’s past glory. Rome ruled the ancient Western world as the capital of the mighty Roman Empire. For hundreds of years Rome was the supreme power of Europe, Northern Africa, and western Asia. Ancient Rome’s influence can be still be seen today As architecture, government, language and law.

As the home of popes, Rome also become the center of the Roman Catholic Church. During the 1500’s and 1600’s, the popes brought a new splendor to Rome. They hired great artists who gave the city beautiful buildings and priceless works of arts. The finest painters and sculptors like Michelangelo, Raffaello, Bernini , Borromini, Caravaggio and many others designed and worked to celebrate Rome splendor. Today, thousands of visitors come every years from all the parts of the world to enjoy these masterpieces and to see the ruins of ancient Rome. Visitors and students also enjoy the colorful life of Rome. They stroll through the city’s fashionable shops and open air markets. Like the Romans visitors and students enjoy relaxing at sidewalks cafes or in the many beautiful squares.

“Pigneto”
SSML San Domenico is located in the vibrant and at the same time relaxing borough of Pigneto, a historic suburb of a Rome ; a little town in the metropolis, settled with folks grown up together and people coming from far away, open air fresh fruit and vegetable markets, restaurants, bars and trendy clubs mixed up with old inns and groceries that bring you back to the old times. Roads, alleys, secular pines will lead you the way in one of the city’s best-kept secrets. You just need to cross the road to get to the tram and bus stop: less than five minutes to reach Porta Maggiore, San Lorenzo and Santa Croce in Gerusalemme Basilica, about fifteen to be at Piazza Vittorio and San Giovanni in Laterano Basilica (Underground A); Termini Station, the main hub of the city, and the Colosseum can be reached in a twenty minutes ride. A night bus service links our Campus with the historic centre.

In the ‘20s it was an industrial area at the very edge of the city which took its name after the Pines of Serventi Park.
The Rome equivalent of Kreuzberg in Berlin used to be inhabited by poor families of factory and rail workers after the war, joined by University students in the 1970-1980s . It then became an area with a lot of foreign immigrants and it has now turned into a major nightlife destination. A living lab of simple, down to earth persons, foreigners, students and people who come here to have fun and drink at night.

The area has no chain shops or supermarkets as local clients love their traditional small shops and markets. Franchising doesn’t work here, Pigneto is a very creative area where you will find products on sale that you won’t see in other areas of Rome. Furthermore, many Italian and International art galleries are recently popping up.
This neighboroughood also inspired many Italian film directors in the aftermaths of WWII for its “frontier” nature. Visconti, Pasolini and Germi all shot major takes here. But the most important was made by one of the key figures of Italy’s Neo Realism, Roberto Rossellini, with Anna Magnani, Rome’s top actress and a symbol herself of Neo Realism.
The area was for many years associated to the intellectual figure of Pier Paolo Pasolini (actually born in north-eastern Italy) who loved Pigneto and spent a lot of working and free time there.

His favorite place was the bar-restaurant Necci, one the best brands of Pigneto, with its outdoor space, a little garden, and good local food. The area is actually full of small family houses with little gardens. And one of its main feature are its low-rise, (maximum 3-storey) buildings. For now, tourists haven’t cottoned on to Pigneto, but that could change soon when work finishes on Rome’s new Metro Line C, which will connect it to the city centre. In the meantime, a tide of foreigners already calls Pigneto home, drawn to its dynamic but low-key vibe. One of them is Ben Hirst, the London-born chef at Bar Necci, nestled in a residential backstreet. Founded in 1924, the bar has always been a magnet for intellectuals; the revered author and director Pier Paolo Pasolini once rented a room above the bar and filmed Accattone using it as a backdrop, while Roberto Rossellini filmed his celebrated Roma, Città Aperta in the area. Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman and Claudia Cardinale worked here too. Pigneto
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Alberto Angela

The seven wonders of Rome Discovery Channel