Italy
Milan
Two climates, two ring roads: an American campus south in Noverasco, and a British not-for-profit in the north. Walk both, then an Italian courtyard.
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Milan schools, Noverasco and the northern gate
Milan is not one American campus in Opera. It is that day house on Via Karl Marx, and a British not-for-profit on Via Pisani Dossi. Walk both, then an Italian courtyard.
15 minIB, A-Levels, Bac, Abitur: a friendly decoder
The letters on the leaver’s certificate matter. They are not the whole child. Here is how to tell them apart without a headache, and without pretending every door stays open.
16 minHow to choose a school without losing the plot
You do not need a perfect algorithm. You need a few true things about your child, a boring list on the fridge, and the courage to ignore a beautiful campus that does not fit.
15 minHow to read a European school fee PDF without being sold
Tuition is the number on the homepage. The PDF is the number that arrives in March. Here is how to read the second one, without inventing a euro, a krona, or a deadline.
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Rome
Four Roman Tuesdays: an Aventine boarding high school, a British through-school on La Storta, an American AP-and-IB campus on the Cassia, and a French AEFE house on three sites. Time the hill, not the Forum.
Varese
A Type 1 European School on Via Montello, there because of Ispra, not a Milan ring-road. Category I is not a tour of Noverasco. The school’s 2026–27 fees page points to the Board table.
Duino
A two-year IB residential college folded into an Italian-Slovene village, not a Milan ring-road and not a Roman through-school. National committees only. The education page prints a €52,000 scholarship value, not a parental fee table.