Italy
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.
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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.
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.
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.